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Anyone seen a Brahman up north?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nite Hawk" data-source="post: 973390" data-attributes="member: 18682"><p>The winters can be hard, and you have to plan and prepare ahead of time for things that other people in warmer more populated areas take for granted.</p><p>When it is that cold little things like plugging your vehicle's ( yes tractors too) block heater in over night may mean the difference between the vehicle starting or you wearing your battery down to nothing. Car Batteries don't like that extreme cold and sometimes simply lose their charge due to the extreme cold.</p><p> Not uncommon from time to time that the electricity crashes, and if you have stock water heaters in the water tanks it ends up freezing and you may end up chopping ice out of the tank with an ax in the morning, or if you have a metal bathtub for water, lighting a fire under /next to it to thaw it out. If you have horses, often their hooves ball up with ice, depending on the type of snow /ice. Lots of challenges, but what is amazing many of the cows and horses do okay, and seem to in general adapt, although some breeds do better than others. I used to have an arab cross mare, and she got so hairy she looked as fuzzy as a shetland pony.</p><p>And to a certain degree even our own bodies tend to adapt to a degree to the extreme cold.</p><p>When the temp has been down to minus -40 F or there abouts for a while and "warms up" to say about 0 *F, one often feels "warm" where people not aclimatized would be hypothermic. One time it 'warmed up" to about 0 degrees F* and had a family member leave the door open to where our house /barn water supply was,and because they felt warm, they left the door open, not realizing it was that cold. Yes and our water system froze.</p><p> In this area, there just isn't demand for brahma cattle, ( other than the cross bred rodeo bulls) and I can't say I Have seen any full or purebreds at all that I can ever remember around the country. They just are not out there that I know of. I am thinking that like one person said, the brahma ears are their "radiator system" to help cool them off for hot climates. I think it would work against them around here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nite Hawk, post: 973390, member: 18682"] The winters can be hard, and you have to plan and prepare ahead of time for things that other people in warmer more populated areas take for granted. When it is that cold little things like plugging your vehicle's ( yes tractors too) block heater in over night may mean the difference between the vehicle starting or you wearing your battery down to nothing. Car Batteries don't like that extreme cold and sometimes simply lose their charge due to the extreme cold. Not uncommon from time to time that the electricity crashes, and if you have stock water heaters in the water tanks it ends up freezing and you may end up chopping ice out of the tank with an ax in the morning, or if you have a metal bathtub for water, lighting a fire under /next to it to thaw it out. If you have horses, often their hooves ball up with ice, depending on the type of snow /ice. Lots of challenges, but what is amazing many of the cows and horses do okay, and seem to in general adapt, although some breeds do better than others. I used to have an arab cross mare, and she got so hairy she looked as fuzzy as a shetland pony. And to a certain degree even our own bodies tend to adapt to a degree to the extreme cold. When the temp has been down to minus -40 F or there abouts for a while and "warms up" to say about 0 *F, one often feels "warm" where people not aclimatized would be hypothermic. One time it 'warmed up" to about 0 degrees F* and had a family member leave the door open to where our house /barn water supply was,and because they felt warm, they left the door open, not realizing it was that cold. Yes and our water system froze. In this area, there just isn't demand for brahma cattle, ( other than the cross bred rodeo bulls) and I can't say I Have seen any full or purebreds at all that I can ever remember around the country. They just are not out there that I know of. I am thinking that like one person said, the brahma ears are their "radiator system" to help cool them off for hot climates. I think it would work against them around here. [/QUOTE]
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