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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1824887" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Most of those water tanks are at summer pastures. There are only 2 that are at winter pastures to have to keep open....the rest near the barn lots are the ones with the 1/2 ball that they push down and they usually don't freeze up unless we get severe cold. Nothing like what you get [USER=42080]@DNelson[/USER] ........ the one place it was a spring that came out of the ground that made a swampy area that fed out to the dirt road and the owner had it "developed" and then the overflow is diverted to a little "run off creek" so cleaned up a big mess and made the road crew happy too as it would cause ice over the road in the winter and a mess... it runs real fast and has not iced over that I can remember. The other will ice and I use a couple of dark colored gallon jugs with some salt water in and the cows "bob them" around and it helps to keep it open. It is a much slower spring, and right now is barely trickling with the dry conditions. This place is where I keep my nurse cows, and we usually run heifers or first calf heifers there. Got some spring calved first calf heifers there, and just pulled the bull from breeding them, and put the few that we kept for replacements in there for the winter. Whenever we wean those calves and preg check, they will go with the spring calving cows for next spring and then the bull will go in next May to breed these heifers. Plus my longhorn stays there and gets bred back....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1824887, member: 25884"] Most of those water tanks are at summer pastures. There are only 2 that are at winter pastures to have to keep open....the rest near the barn lots are the ones with the 1/2 ball that they push down and they usually don't freeze up unless we get severe cold. Nothing like what you get [USER=42080]@DNelson[/USER] ........ the one place it was a spring that came out of the ground that made a swampy area that fed out to the dirt road and the owner had it "developed" and then the overflow is diverted to a little "run off creek" so cleaned up a big mess and made the road crew happy too as it would cause ice over the road in the winter and a mess... it runs real fast and has not iced over that I can remember. The other will ice and I use a couple of dark colored gallon jugs with some salt water in and the cows "bob them" around and it helps to keep it open. It is a much slower spring, and right now is barely trickling with the dry conditions. This place is where I keep my nurse cows, and we usually run heifers or first calf heifers there. Got some spring calved first calf heifers there, and just pulled the bull from breeding them, and put the few that we kept for replacements in there for the winter. Whenever we wean those calves and preg check, they will go with the spring calving cows for next spring and then the bull will go in next May to breed these heifers. Plus my longhorn stays there and gets bred back.... [/QUOTE]
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