True Grit Farms
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Stay safe and warm for starters, and what if anything do you do for your cows when the weather gets brutally cold?
Aaron and others in the north?
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Jeanne - Simme Valley
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We are expecting major cold Wed & Thurs. It was -6 this morning.
Don't do anything other than make sure they have plenty of hay. If it was muddy, just getting frozen, I would put bales out for them to eat/lay on. But, as long as we have snow (10" +), that is all the bedding they need. It is a warm bed, they snuggle right down into it.
My calves have 3-sided sheds to get into, which I put a dry bale for them to eat & we bed with it. Newborns sometimes take a few days to figure it out. We "tuck" them in, but Mom stands at the fenceline & bawls them out. If it gets windy, the newbies learn real quick.
Don't do anything other than make sure they have plenty of hay. If it was muddy, just getting frozen, I would put bales out for them to eat/lay on. But, as long as we have snow (10" +), that is all the bedding they need. It is a warm bed, they snuggle right down into it.
My calves have 3-sided sheds to get into, which I put a dry bale for them to eat & we bed with it. Newborns sometimes take a few days to figure it out. We "tuck" them in, but Mom stands at the fenceline & bawls them out. If it gets windy, the newbies learn real quick.
