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<blockquote data-quote="Farm Family" data-source="post: 1819607" data-attributes="member: 43070"><p>I thought of that as we moved to the fat cows<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" />. I also thought damn it…posted that picture not paying attention to cattle and conditions…thought to myself "someone is going to comment - fat cause she free choices them those are some spoiled pampered cattle". <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p>We actually bust bales on winter pasture. Those girls are up there no matter the weather or snow depth…we will break a path but they usually have their zigzag to the water well packed…it takes quite a dump to leave them stranded, they truck through.</p><p></p><p>They only come down to calve. We bust for them down below for as long as the ground is frozen or fairly firm. When ground gets soft, rain comes, with very wet heavy spring snow we do use bale feeders so they don't trample and waste so much. Sometimes bale feeders are needed for a couple weeks if we can't send them up to dry ground ie. if we have seeded down (case in 2022). Ideally they go to the seasonal dugout first but we have watering challenges there cause we often are still too cold to drop the pump or we have ice still in the dugout. We have a seasonal creek they use too but really it does not run until the seasonal dugout is ready for its pump.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷♀️" title="Woman shrugging :woman_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2640.png" data-shortname=":woman_shrugging:" /></p><p></p><p>The winter pasture dugout is not an issue…on an "motion eye" pump kicks in, water climbs goodness 10ft? into a wide shallow bowl, "motion eye" after no movement detection drains back below frost lines (that 10ft.) Not perfect and like any winter watering system is cussed at and needs a heat gun, kettle, you know<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /> but man it is a beneficial tool and assists us immensely. What freezes is the overflow holes and they drop cud in and that can hang up on the draining mechanism which can then hang up some water. So after a cold snap that is taken off and cleaned for the next go round.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farm Family, post: 1819607, member: 43070"] I thought of that as we moved to the fat cows😂. I also thought damn it…posted that picture not paying attention to cattle and conditions…thought to myself “someone is going to comment - fat cause she free choices them those are some spoiled pampered cattle”. 😂 We actually bust bales on winter pasture. Those girls are up there no matter the weather or snow depth…we will break a path but they usually have their zigzag to the water well packed…it takes quite a dump to leave them stranded, they truck through. They only come down to calve. We bust for them down below for as long as the ground is frozen or fairly firm. When ground gets soft, rain comes, with very wet heavy spring snow we do use bale feeders so they don’t trample and waste so much. Sometimes bale feeders are needed for a couple weeks if we can’t send them up to dry ground ie. if we have seeded down (case in 2022). Ideally they go to the seasonal dugout first but we have watering challenges there cause we often are still too cold to drop the pump or we have ice still in the dugout. We have a seasonal creek they use too but really it does not run until the seasonal dugout is ready for its pump.🤷♀️ The winter pasture dugout is not an issue…on an “motion eye” pump kicks in, water climbs goodness 10ft? into a wide shallow bowl, “motion eye” after no movement detection drains back below frost lines (that 10ft.) Not perfect and like any winter watering system is cussed at and needs a heat gun, kettle, you know😂 but man it is a beneficial tool and assists us immensely. What freezes is the overflow holes and they drop cud in and that can hang up on the draining mechanism which can then hang up some water. So after a cold snap that is taken off and cleaned for the next go round. [/QUOTE]
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