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<blockquote data-quote="Australian" data-source="post: 765922" data-attributes="member: 8793"><p>no we don't have to stock pile anything apart from some hay. There is really no where in Australia that cattle are grazed that has prolonged periods of snow. Coverage of snow in area that it snows would never last anymore than 3/4 days. Last time that an extensive dump of snow fell that stretched from Tasmania up into Southern Queensland occurred in early July 1984. It lasted in drifts for about a week. So if you see Australian's complaining about the cold just take it with a grain of salt because technically we have nothing to whinge about. Our cattle have grass all year round. During Winter our grass dries off and becomes quite rough and somewhat unpalatable. We use a dry loose supplement that has urea,protein etc etc. The cattle utilise a large quantity of the dry grass. We use sulphur lick blocks all year round which also helps them with buffalo control and to utilise the dry grass as well. They don't use the blocks quite as much during Summer and Autumn.We sometimes have to feed out round bales of Rhodes Grass hay to the cattle further away from the paddocks that run our registered cattle and area that we run our sires in, or any cattle being prepared for sale or show. We might think we have a tough Winter, our high country does compared some other areas of Australia but nothing compared to snow covered pastures like you folk. We have had a very mild Winter so far. Big white frost here this morning down to about minus 4/5, but its clear and should turn out a beautiful sunny day with a top of about 14/15.</p><p>You asked about the CBV program, if its the one I'm thinking of, yes I have, but don't know much about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Australian, post: 765922, member: 8793"] no we don't have to stock pile anything apart from some hay. There is really no where in Australia that cattle are grazed that has prolonged periods of snow. Coverage of snow in area that it snows would never last anymore than 3/4 days. Last time that an extensive dump of snow fell that stretched from Tasmania up into Southern Queensland occurred in early July 1984. It lasted in drifts for about a week. So if you see Australian's complaining about the cold just take it with a grain of salt because technically we have nothing to whinge about. Our cattle have grass all year round. During Winter our grass dries off and becomes quite rough and somewhat unpalatable. We use a dry loose supplement that has urea,protein etc etc. The cattle utilise a large quantity of the dry grass. We use sulphur lick blocks all year round which also helps them with buffalo control and to utilise the dry grass as well. They don't use the blocks quite as much during Summer and Autumn.We sometimes have to feed out round bales of Rhodes Grass hay to the cattle further away from the paddocks that run our registered cattle and area that we run our sires in, or any cattle being prepared for sale or show. We might think we have a tough Winter, our high country does compared some other areas of Australia but nothing compared to snow covered pastures like you folk. We have had a very mild Winter so far. Big white frost here this morning down to about minus 4/5, but its clear and should turn out a beautiful sunny day with a top of about 14/15. You asked about the CBV program, if its the one I'm thinking of, yes I have, but don't know much about it. [/QUOTE]
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