Barn fire kills veal calves

[Catherine]

Quote:It is NEVER farming practice to keep hay in the wrong places. There are usually specially-designated places for hay. It is not hard to move bales of hay around a farm, that's what tractors with different attachments are for. Good farmers don't violate that practice for safety reasons. And common sense reasons, as their stock is their money! Someone was too lazy there. And it ended in tragedy.

That was my thought when I heard about the hay above the calf barn.

I suppose the big factory farms are careless of animal lives because they are insured.

Years ago I went with someone on an insurance claim(he was an adjuster). An egg farmer with chickens in little cages, had the power knocked out by a hail storm. That shut off the ventilation system and three thousand chickens suffocated. It was a shocking disregard for life.
They did not even try to save them. An open door might have helped.
They were insured for this so they did not see it as a loss.

They buried the chickens in a pit on the farm. I wonder now how well they checked to be sure the chickens were all dead.
It was a shocking disregard for life. That was 35 years ago and I am still stunned by the callousness and cruelty.