Temp got down to - 6 with 14 mph wind. Went to set hay out and bust ice on the pond.
A 5 weight calf had busted through the ice in the very middle of the pond and drown. It was floating. Ice was 5 inches thick where i was breaking it with the loader bucket.
Moved cows to a different pasture with a 1000 gallon stock tank to avoid anymore walking the ice and drowning.
Heard on the radio this morning. A local farmer was found dead by drowning in a pond trying to get a calf out of a pond that was froze over. Said the calf was alive and stuck in the ice when the farmer found it.
Don't know how they know that. The drown man went missing Tuesday and a friend found him Wednesday. Really wasn't nobody there who saw what actually happened. The man was 69 years old.
A 5 weight calf had busted through the ice in the very middle of the pond and drown. It was floating. Ice was 5 inches thick where i was breaking it with the loader bucket.
Moved cows to a different pasture with a 1000 gallon stock tank to avoid anymore walking the ice and drowning.
Heard on the radio this morning. A local farmer was found dead by drowning in a pond trying to get a calf out of a pond that was froze over. Said the calf was alive and stuck in the ice when the farmer found it.
Don't know how they know that. The drown man went missing Tuesday and a friend found him Wednesday. Really wasn't nobody there who saw what actually happened. The man was 69 years old.