It's So Cold In US That Calves' Ears Are Falling Off It's So Cold In US That Calves' Ears Are Falling Off Across the American Plains, South and Southwest, the unprecedented cold of this past week has been brutal on millions of residents. The unprecedented cold has been disastrous for flora and fauna and those making living cultivating them In Arkansas, ranchers are fitting pantyhose over the heads of calves in a desperate attempt to keep them warm. In Montana, they've been duct-taping calves' ears to their necks to stop them from falling off. In Oklahoma, newborns arrived onto snow-packed frozen ground and perished while ranchers were reportedly sticking the hardest-hit animals in the front seat of pickup trucks and even inside their homes.