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    Chores Today (pics)

    How cold it gets at your area? we have had -20-30C for a month soon, only a few days warmer than -15C. Do you shelter cattle in any temperatures? thanks, P.A.L
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    Snow questions

    This is interesting! I need to go to Canada to see it my self. Want learn more... There will be lot of manure on surface of the field. Will the pasture hay grow trough or do you cultivate it some how? reseed?
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    Snow questions

    Nice scenery in Bulgaria! Here in Finland we have now 15cm+ of snow. It will get to 50cm-1m during the winter. Snow melts in end of april. Chilly weather like -35C is no problem if watering system can handle it.We have Herefords and some angus and they enjoy snow. Snow keeps feet clean and...
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    Suitable breed for mountain farm?

    In my experience also limo's are nuttier than others.. You should go to look cattle from Danmark. They have high quality cattle in all most every breed. Expecially hereford ;-) . They use a lot of embryo's there. The best angusherd you will find here in Finland. Near my place is a old angus...
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    Suitable breed for mountain farm?

    When i was talking about those grades of my herefords, they were EUROP grades. E is best P- worst in muscularity. Fat is graded 1-5 when 5 is fattest. Nowadays herefords and angus have improved well in this grading system. Best hereford bull i have heard of was E- in muscularity (really extreme...
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    Suitable breed for mountain farm?

    Hi, I live some thousand miles norther, but i think the beef market is the same. I have Hereford and Angusherd. They fit nicely here "Northern mountains" ;-). I think you got it all figured out very well when you thinked of crossbreeding Li x AB. They work very well here in EU. Our purebred...
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    Freeze proof water...

    Here frost goes under 2 (7 feet) meters under the roads. Else were max. 1.5 meters....So were animals or cars move -frost will go deeper..... -Frostneck-
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    The Cold weather dance in Manitoba/ Canada

    We did once a roundbalerolling dance. It was so cold that we didnt dare to start the tractor so we rolled the roundbales from stack to the field. Cows ate them there. We got very warm. That week was coldiest week i've seen. Cows didnt mind at all. My friend has a russian tractor. Russian...
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    opinions?

    Its nice that you like them.I hope that i get some good calves from them. They are also very friendly -easy to handle. Grass is growing very well, its been warm and we have had some rain too. Its time to "look up" the baler and get some hay for winter... bloodlines: Heifer number one´s sire...
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    opinions?

    Hello all, i took some pictures of my cows yesterday. What do you like/dislike of them? http://cattletoday.com/photos/showphoto ... puser=5215 http://cattletoday.com/photos/showphoto ... puser=5215 http://cattletoday.com/photos/showphoto ... puser=5215...
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    How Cold is Too Cold?

    Hi, Last January temperature dropped to -40 Celsius(I think its same in Fs) for 3 weeks. Our Herefords Have shelter were they can go warmer. Some of the cows(fat) didnt go to shelter at all. They went to forest or slept on straws. But when it winds and rains, animalshelter is "packed with...
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