While the direct reason for the stop-sale isn’t outlined, the vehicles are claimed to experience a “hydro-lock / no start issue”. Hydrolocking is the term used when the cylinder of an engine fills with water, gas, or diesel and prevents a piston from moving. Current assumptions are that there might be some defect allowing fluid to enter the cylinders and therefore preventing starting.
Some dealers with trucks on the lot that fall under this stop sale have outright told customers they will not take delivery. There is no estimate for a fix or a time frame for when the vehicles may be released for sale. Even the bulletin states that the issue is – “incomplete remedy not available”.
This comes at a frustrating time for consumers. Some HD pickup customers have waited upwards of 19-weeks since ordering their new trucks and have yet to take delivery. Some of those waiting will undoubtedly fall into this stop sale. A short-term remedy (for example ordering a new truck) seems unlikely.
Free-ranging allows pigs to satisfy their curious natures and engage in fulfilling activities. They can improve land fertility and diversity, assist farmers in their work, and provide tasty and nutritious food. These benefits require good management of well-adapted breeds that can thrive outdoors with the minimum of intervention.
Running pigs in the woods is an interesting idea, especially when you have a lot of underbrush and invasive crap to clean up and want to really tear up the soil. Goats are good for some purposes, especially chewing away at brush but they won't tear up the soil like pigs will or restore it with lots of rich organic matter.
Environment, germs and immunity are top of mind when thinking of all the risk factors that could set the stage for pneumonia in cattle. The forgotten factor is one beyond producers’ control and the reason why pneumonia will always be a problem — anatomy.
Bovine lungs are very small relative to the animal’s oxygen requirements, explains Dr. Edouard Timsit, University of Calgary Veterinary Medicine and a veterinarian with Feedlot Health Management Services at Okotoks.
The total lung capacity of an adult cow is only 2.5 times greater than that of an average man, yet its resting oxygen requirement is more than 10 times greater. A cow’s lung capacity is 12 litres, its resting oxygen requirement is 124 litres per minute and it takes 30 breaths a minute to meet this demand. Compared to a species of similar size and structure, a horse’s lung capacity is 42 litres and its resting oxygen requirement is 49 litres per minute requiring only 11 breaths per minute.
The high airflow rate coupled with weaknesses of the bovine lung structure itself leave ways for bacteria, viruses and other contaminants to penetrate deep into the lungs where they trigger infection and inflammation.
In 1809, a man named William Jarvis sent a flock of Spanish sheep to America and altered the landscape and the economy of Vermont. The shipment of prized merino sheep eventually turned Vermont’s subsistence farmers into wealthy ranchers, fed the new woolen mills and deforested the landscape.