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<blockquote data-quote="bward" data-source="post: 65595" data-attributes="member: 48"><p>To Arnold Ziffle. No we don't provide anything special for the purebreds. They winter in the same bunch as the rest of the cows, and for them we provide bedding when its colder than 20 below, or when there is a heck of a lot of snow. They have a wind fence shelter and drink from a spring fed creek all winter. We feed them pretty high quality hay which we grow here, but no grain, unless its in the form of greenfeed.</p><p></p><p>We do not have a calving barn and we move the girls to a clean 1/4 section of grassland to calve in. We do however have a hot box for calves to dry them off and warm them up. Some years it gets a lot of use and other times not so much.... Early spring can be just as nasty as winter but the storms usually peter out quickly.</p><p></p><p>In the picture below you can see the wind fence.<img src="http://[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v653/barbward/DSC00423.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/img]</p><p></p><p><img src="http://[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v653/barbward/DSC00425.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/img]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bward, post: 65595, member: 48"] To Arnold Ziffle. No we don't provide anything special for the purebreds. They winter in the same bunch as the rest of the cows, and for them we provide bedding when its colder than 20 below, or when there is a heck of a lot of snow. They have a wind fence shelter and drink from a spring fed creek all winter. We feed them pretty high quality hay which we grow here, but no grain, unless its in the form of greenfeed. We do not have a calving barn and we move the girls to a clean 1/4 section of grassland to calve in. We do however have a hot box for calves to dry them off and warm them up. Some years it gets a lot of use and other times not so much.... Early spring can be just as nasty as winter but the storms usually peter out quickly. In the picture below you can see the wind fence.[img][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v653/barbward/DSC00423.jpg[/img][/img] [img][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v653/barbward/DSC00425.jpg[/img][/img] [/QUOTE]
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