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<blockquote data-quote="JRGidaho`" data-source="post: 713934" data-attributes="member: 13410"><p>Bez... That was a great post! </p><p></p><p>linbul,</p><p></p><p>Regarding the question of how much snow we expect a cow to graze through. We rarely get more than a foot where we live (high desert, 6000 ft elevation) and this is never enough to even slow the cows down. </p><p></p><p>We have friends across the line in Montana who regularly expect their cows (1400 hd) to graze through 1-2 ft of snow until it crusts. The crusted snow is a real problem. One way they have dealt with it is running outfitter horses over the winter with the cows. They run one horse per 10 - 15 cows. The horses will break the crusted snow and then the cows graze where the horses have opened up the snow cover. They don't charge the outfitters anything for wintering the horses. They penciled it out that it is still cheaper to carry the 100+ extra horses and give up roughly 10% of their stockpiled pasture than it is to feed hay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRGidaho`, post: 713934, member: 13410"] Bez... That was a great post! linbul, Regarding the question of how much snow we expect a cow to graze through. We rarely get more than a foot where we live (high desert, 6000 ft elevation) and this is never enough to even slow the cows down. We have friends across the line in Montana who regularly expect their cows (1400 hd) to graze through 1-2 ft of snow until it crusts. The crusted snow is a real problem. One way they have dealt with it is running outfitter horses over the winter with the cows. They run one horse per 10 - 15 cows. The horses will break the crusted snow and then the cows graze where the horses have opened up the snow cover. They don't charge the outfitters anything for wintering the horses. They penciled it out that it is still cheaper to carry the 100+ extra horses and give up roughly 10% of their stockpiled pasture than it is to feed hay. [/QUOTE]
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