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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1467633" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I have been hauling water since mid Sept to one place to supplement the spring that has not recovered. We moved 10 head out and it helped but then it stayed dry and so I am hauling 150 gal a day so that the calves can get enough to drink because they can't reach down into the concrete water troughs because the cows keep it so low since it isn't filling fast enough. Had about a week respite when we got some rain in early oct; but it didn't last. So some days I haul 300 gal then skip a day but with 4 nurse cows with 10 plus calves on them, plus the 10 first calf heifers that have 3 month calves on them, plus some others there, I have to haul. The spring is gravity fed and no elec so I also haul some for the calves on the nurse cows in the lot because they are starting to eat hay and grain and I have seen them drinking water also. Usually we have about a month of supplementing the spring in the hottest days of august, but never this late in the year. We never used to go weeks between rain like this year. It is worrisome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1467633, member: 25884"] I have been hauling water since mid Sept to one place to supplement the spring that has not recovered. We moved 10 head out and it helped but then it stayed dry and so I am hauling 150 gal a day so that the calves can get enough to drink because they can't reach down into the concrete water troughs because the cows keep it so low since it isn't filling fast enough. Had about a week respite when we got some rain in early oct; but it didn't last. So some days I haul 300 gal then skip a day but with 4 nurse cows with 10 plus calves on them, plus the 10 first calf heifers that have 3 month calves on them, plus some others there, I have to haul. The spring is gravity fed and no elec so I also haul some for the calves on the nurse cows in the lot because they are starting to eat hay and grain and I have seen them drinking water also. Usually we have about a month of supplementing the spring in the hottest days of august, but never this late in the year. We never used to go weeks between rain like this year. It is worrisome. [/QUOTE]
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