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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 96978" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>Jerry, sure am sorry to hear that. It would have made me sick for a lot longer than a little while. The majority of the time I have lost cattle on the ice, it has been yearliings or younger, they seem to want to explore. Once in a while I have had a cow get down, but not often. To be certain, you can fence every pond and leave a little corner to chop ice, but with 40-50 ponds, there isnt the time or money to do that. Sometimes when it is real cold for a long time, I move cattle to spring fed pastures, but there are still some cattle with ponds. But you cant move them all. I have seen, on the river place, as many as 50 cows plus calves walking out on the ice on the river and sleeping on the river where it is about 10 feet deep----talk about making a guy nervous. Ice is not kind to the farmer</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 96978, member: 1150"] Jerry, sure am sorry to hear that. It would have made me sick for a lot longer than a little while. The majority of the time I have lost cattle on the ice, it has been yearliings or younger, they seem to want to explore. Once in a while I have had a cow get down, but not often. To be certain, you can fence every pond and leave a little corner to chop ice, but with 40-50 ponds, there isnt the time or money to do that. Sometimes when it is real cold for a long time, I move cattle to spring fed pastures, but there are still some cattle with ponds. But you cant move them all. I have seen, on the river place, as many as 50 cows plus calves walking out on the ice on the river and sleeping on the river where it is about 10 feet deep----talk about making a guy nervous. Ice is not kind to the farmer [/QUOTE]
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