linbul
Member
Hello everyone,
Everyday I learn something new and usefull here. As we still raise mostly dairy steers, we put them in buildings during the winter. They just don't do well outside and don't graze at all if there is some snow cover.
This year we started raising beef cattle, just to "get our feet wet". That brought many new questions, most of them had their answers already in other folks topics. Now we have the snowing started and I realize I don't know some things You could say it's dumb :
- as our land is mostly rolling hills, there are many snow-drifts (? places with deep snow). How stupid are the beef cows and do they "know" they shouldn't go in the deep? If once they have a track in the snow, do they stay on it?
- we have plenty of land and therefore many stockpiled pastures. As we have sometimes snow cover more than 3 feet, Is there some max snow cover where cows could graze the stockpiled pasture.
Before You think it's too late for me to ask these questions, I'll tell you I have the option just to keep the cattle in the farm (buildings and yard) and Yes, we have enough hay. I just need that info to gain experience for the next winter, when we are planning to have some more than 100 beef cows. If that matters, the breed now is Herefords and some Simmental (Fleckvieh), In the future going to be mostly baldies. Thanks in advance.
Here the snow is not so big, but believe me, sometimes it's almost covering the barn
Everyday I learn something new and usefull here. As we still raise mostly dairy steers, we put them in buildings during the winter. They just don't do well outside and don't graze at all if there is some snow cover.
This year we started raising beef cattle, just to "get our feet wet". That brought many new questions, most of them had their answers already in other folks topics. Now we have the snowing started and I realize I don't know some things You could say it's dumb :
- as our land is mostly rolling hills, there are many snow-drifts (? places with deep snow). How stupid are the beef cows and do they "know" they shouldn't go in the deep? If once they have a track in the snow, do they stay on it?
- we have plenty of land and therefore many stockpiled pastures. As we have sometimes snow cover more than 3 feet, Is there some max snow cover where cows could graze the stockpiled pasture.
Before You think it's too late for me to ask these questions, I'll tell you I have the option just to keep the cattle in the farm (buildings and yard) and Yes, we have enough hay. I just need that info to gain experience for the next winter, when we are planning to have some more than 100 beef cows. If that matters, the breed now is Herefords and some Simmental (Fleckvieh), In the future going to be mostly baldies. Thanks in advance.
Here the snow is not so big, but believe me, sometimes it's almost covering the barn