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<blockquote data-quote="Beef Man" data-source="post: 1080122" data-attributes="member: 13859"><p>90% ofthe cattle in this part of Montana are outside regardless of how cold it is and they do well if fed or have access to an adequate amount of dry feed. Up to an unbeilevable amount of roughage. I do remember aa bliizard in late 1964 that even healthy cattle froze spots and had a lot of frosted lungs. It was a horrible highwind nasty blizzard, a lot of cattle died as did a lot of deer,antilope all birds and any thing else that was either in poor condition or did'nt get to some good protection. I may be wrong but I think there was only 1person killed in it, in this area. 3 winters ago almost all antelope and a lot of whitetail died due to deep snow and cold. Antelope can't live on hay and them that made it near here survived on what they could dig out in the pea and other pulse crop fields. Interesting to watch the sharpe tail grouse and how they stand winter compared to ring neck's. The grouse can fill up on feed and face directly into astorm , ringnecks eat a bit and turn their backs to the wind and snow so their feathers fill up and they'r froze in a bit. The sharp tails used to set on snowbanks eye level withthe house winddows and look in and act like they were enjoying life no matter how nasty was the weather.Just to bad they are'nt better eating as they are natural survivors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beef Man, post: 1080122, member: 13859"] 90% ofthe cattle in this part of Montana are outside regardless of how cold it is and they do well if fed or have access to an adequate amount of dry feed. Up to an unbeilevable amount of roughage. I do remember aa bliizard in late 1964 that even healthy cattle froze spots and had a lot of frosted lungs. It was a horrible highwind nasty blizzard, a lot of cattle died as did a lot of deer,antilope all birds and any thing else that was either in poor condition or did'nt get to some good protection. I may be wrong but I think there was only 1person killed in it, in this area. 3 winters ago almost all antelope and a lot of whitetail died due to deep snow and cold. Antelope can't live on hay and them that made it near here survived on what they could dig out in the pea and other pulse crop fields. Interesting to watch the sharpe tail grouse and how they stand winter compared to ring neck's. The grouse can fill up on feed and face directly into astorm , ringnecks eat a bit and turn their backs to the wind and snow so their feathers fill up and they'r froze in a bit. The sharp tails used to set on snowbanks eye level withthe house winddows and look in and act like they were enjoying life no matter how nasty was the weather.Just to bad they are'nt better eating as they are natural survivors. [/QUOTE]
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