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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 329001" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>twabscs, cows have to have water. How much depends on whether they are suckling a calf or not and how much energy they are expending and how much salt they are eating. We were only out of electricity for 2 days, while neighbors of ours were out 10 and some further away dont have electricity, yet. We have neighbors who only have electric waterers and with no electricity, the cows drank the water out of them and the lines froze and busted. It could have been alot worse because we didnt have much of a cold spell--a couple of nights down to around 5 above. Usually this time of year, there are several nights bellow 0 when the snow is on. We have no electric waterers and almost all of the pastures have springs in them. The ones that have ponds, if you do not chop the ice, the cows will walk out on the ice and get down or break through. It is very important to chop ice for the cows if there is no other scource of water in the field. You are setting yourself up for disaster if they cant get water, but they can walk out on the ice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 329001, member: 1150"] twabscs, cows have to have water. How much depends on whether they are suckling a calf or not and how much energy they are expending and how much salt they are eating. We were only out of electricity for 2 days, while neighbors of ours were out 10 and some further away dont have electricity, yet. We have neighbors who only have electric waterers and with no electricity, the cows drank the water out of them and the lines froze and busted. It could have been alot worse because we didnt have much of a cold spell--a couple of nights down to around 5 above. Usually this time of year, there are several nights bellow 0 when the snow is on. We have no electric waterers and almost all of the pastures have springs in them. The ones that have ponds, if you do not chop the ice, the cows will walk out on the ice and get down or break through. It is very important to chop ice for the cows if there is no other scource of water in the field. You are setting yourself up for disaster if they cant get water, but they can walk out on the ice [/QUOTE]
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