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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 313012" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>It depends on the farm/ranch. </p><p></p><p>For my place, we have lean-to shelters for the back herd (one that's sorta being used, but they're pretty hardy, these cattle, they've got thick winter coats on and as long as we put a thick bed of straw out for them every couple days or so (or less, if it's snowing like crazy) in a somewhat sheltered area, and keep them fed and watered, they do pretty good.</p><p></p><p>And, it depends on the breed<s>, 'cause the breeds that are more adapted to the hot-weather climate like brahman and even longhorn, they'd freeze to death pretty darned quick out in -20 degree C to -45 degree C if there wasn't a warm barn to take shelter in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (I assume you know about that already).</s></p><p><s></s></p><p><s>We don't put them out (or leave them out, for that matter) in the pasture that I was taking pics in, because one, the snow's too deep and gets conglomerated too quickly for them to move around, two, it's way too open, which means drifts and hard snow, and hard snow is really difficult to travel on for a 500 to 1000+ pound bovine...other wild ungluates (ruminants) face the same difficulties, as you could imagine...and there's a chance that an animal would get stranded from exhaustion of travelling through hard-wind-packed snow that comes up to their bellies...and I know what that feels like. So corrals solve that problem, and even then half the space of the corral isn't even used/walked on because of the deep snow or the drifts. </s></p><p><s></s></p><p><s>Feeding is simple...dress up warm, get on the tractor and get a bale or bucket of silage...gets drifty where the bales are too, so there's a 50% chance of getting the tractor stuck...but water...we use automatic waterers, have to keep a light bulb going in there to keep the water lines from freezing, as well as in the pump house. Even then there's a chance that the waterer's are gonna freeze on you, its the fact of winter. Some people use their dugouts and pump water from there, but I don't have much experience with that.</s></p><p><s></s></p><p><s>I guess you could say it adds as an expense, if you're thinking of all the fixing that might have to be done, and the nursing you'd have to do if you had a few sick cattle. But, it doesn't seem like it to me. I guess it's because I've been through many many winters through my life.</s></p><p><s></s></p><p><s>Anyway, that's what we do to look after cattle in these Alberta winters (or Canadian, for that matter). Hope that answers your question.</s></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 313012, member: 3739"] It depends on the farm/ranch. For my place, we have lean-to shelters for the back herd (one that's sorta being used, but they're pretty hardy, these cattle, they've got thick winter coats on and as long as we put a thick bed of straw out for them every couple days or so (or less, if it's snowing like crazy) in a somewhat sheltered area, and keep them fed and watered, they do pretty good. And, it depends on the breed[s], 'cause the breeds that are more adapted to the hot-weather climate like brahman and even longhorn, they'd freeze to death pretty darned quick out in -20 degree C to -45 degree C if there wasn't a warm barn to take shelter in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (I assume you know about that already). We don't put them out (or leave them out, for that matter) in the pasture that I was taking pics in, because one, the snow's too deep and gets conglomerated too quickly for them to move around, two, it's way too open, which means drifts and hard snow, and hard snow is really difficult to travel on for a 500 to 1000+ pound bovine...other wild ungluates (ruminants) face the same difficulties, as you could imagine...and there's a chance that an animal would get stranded from exhaustion of travelling through hard-wind-packed snow that comes up to their bellies...and I know what that feels like. So corrals solve that problem, and even then half the space of the corral isn't even used/walked on because of the deep snow or the drifts. Feeding is simple...dress up warm, get on the tractor and get a bale or bucket of silage...gets drifty where the bales are too, so there's a 50% chance of getting the tractor stuck...but water...we use automatic waterers, have to keep a light bulb going in there to keep the water lines from freezing, as well as in the pump house. Even then there's a chance that the waterer's are gonna freeze on you, its the fact of winter. Some people use their dugouts and pump water from there, but I don't have much experience with that. I guess you could say it adds as an expense, if you're thinking of all the fixing that might have to be done, and the nursing you'd have to do if you had a few sick cattle. But, it doesn't seem like it to me. I guess it's because I've been through many many winters through my life. Anyway, that's what we do to look after cattle in these Alberta winters (or Canadian, for that matter). Hope that answers your question.[/s] [/QUOTE]
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