Snowbound Cattle

Gather App
Its a terrible thing down south. Where I am nost of the snow has melted down to probably 2'. Nothing like down there I guess. I hope that everyone can find their cattle and that they are still alive.

My prayers to you!
 
This is a terrible thing to have to face. For the Colorado posters, is there an agency to send checks to, to help with feed purchases.
 
la4angus":2un3rriq said:
This is a terrible thing to have to face. For the Colorado posters, is there an agency to send checks to, to help with feed purchases.
Click to expand...

Im not real sure on this one but you might try the Colorado Cattlemans Association. They are the ones trying real hard to get at least something to these cattle. I would call them and see because I know that they are desperate.

Here's what I can't believe. Most people in other states have known about this for a few days now via the news. Our news stations will hardly report on it and get news out there that there is an actual crisis going on here. They showed maybe a 10 second clip of a guy pushing some alfalfa off the chopper and that was about it. A lady that my mom works with has a brother that lives down there. He has been without electricity for over a week and has lost over 200 head of boer goats, not including the kids that they were carrying. They are also trying to find the cattle that are still trapped under the snow by using infa-red technology. I just cant imagine what it must be like. I really hope that all turns out alright for the ranchers down south.
 
Those poor people. My prayers are with them. This has always been one of my worst fears. The oldtimers around here talk about when the same type of thing happened here. I can't even imagine how they are feeling.
It's awful of the media to not be covering this story. Sounds like a crisis to me.
 
Colorado2008":3efyapqf said:
Here's a link to some pictures. I can't believe some of the pictures, especially the ones of the cattle. :shock:

http://www.ksn.com/weather/weathergallery/wxphotos
Click to expand...
Some of those pictures are horrible. Just look at the Hfr that is literally covered in snow. Just a blanket of snoiw.
I called the Colorado Cattlemans Assn. today and got directions for where to send donations.
Please send any checks to buy feed or hay to:

National Cattlemans Beef Assn.
Disaster Relief Fund
9110 East Nichols Ave
Suite 300
Centennial, Co. 80112

On the memo section of your check write in Disaster Relief.

On The outside of the envelope Please write in:
Disaster Relief Fund

Any help is definitely needed. For those of you that is quitting smoking Just plan on 1 mo. worth of Cigarettes. You'll feel better about quitting smoking mentally and physically.
 
eric":1pl71hl9 said:
Colorado2008":1pl71hl9 said:
Here's a link to some pictures. I can't believe some of the pictures, especially the ones of the cattle. :shock:

http://www.ksn.com/weather/weathergallery/wxphotos
Click to expand...


Those are very depressing pictures. Any chance the cattle will survive? I mean, that heifer looked completly frozen.
Click to expand...

Ummm...some...yes...

Its really touch and go. I just heard on the news that they had called off operations to get more feed to these cattle. A couple of our Senators (Ken Salazar and someone else) are asking Pres. Bush to declare a state of emergency or snow disaster area but no word yet... :roll: .... All we can really do is wait and see which is unfortunate :(
 
la4angus":3fb0mwqu said:
Colorado2008":3fb0mwqu said:
Here's a link to some pictures. I can't believe some of the pictures, especially the ones of the cattle. :shock:

http://www.ksn.com/weather/weathergallery/wxphotos
Click to expand...
Some of those pictures are horrible. Just look at the Hfr that is literally covered in snow. Just a blanket of snoiw.
I called the Colorado Cattlemans Assn. today and got directions for where to send donations.
Please send any checks to buy feed or hay to:

National Cattlemans Beef Assn.
Disaster Relief Fund
9110 East Nichols Ave
Suite 300
Centennial, Co. 80112

On the memo section of your check write in Disaster Relief.

On The outside of the envelope Please write in:
Disaster Relief Fund

Any help is definitely needed. For those of you that is quitting smoking Just plan on 1 mo. worth of Cigarettes. You'll feel better about quitting smoking mentally and physically.
Click to expand...

They also take online donations.

http://www.nationalcattlemensfoundation.org
 
Remember back in the 60s they dropped hay on the reservation
for the Navajo's sheep and cattle.
The guard took recon flights over the reservation in helos and wondered why the residents came out shooting.
The rotorwash was blowing the smoke back into the hogans sufficating the people.
I'd have fired a few warning shots myself.
DMc
 
I feel so sad for the animals having to withstand the freezing cold. Here in our country we sometimes whinge about the cold. We do not know cold.
Has the weather warmed up any since the big falls we heard about in Colorado. We never heard about any other states. It was as if the snow stopped at the border.
Just a question. Why is it in some of the photographs property owners/householders,leave their motor vehicles or machinery out in the snow. Is it because they have insufficient shedding?
I understand about the tractor side of things to feed hay out etc. But can never understand why a car needs to parked outside a home when it looks like they have shedding for it.You would think that we wouldn't do the vehicles much good having the snow all over it.
Colin :?:
 
Australian Cattleman":1g8vwqge said:
I feel so sad for the animals having to withstand the freezing cold. Here in our country we sometimes whinge about the cold. We do not know cold.
Has the weather warmed up any since the big falls we heard about in Colorado. We never heard about any other states. It was as if the snow stopped at the border.
Just a question. Why is it in some of the photographs property owners/householders,leave their motor vehicles or machinery out in the snow. Is it because they have insufficient shedding?
I understand about the tractor side of things to feed hay out etc. But can never understand why a car needs to parked outside a home when it looks like they have shedding for it.You would think that we wouldn't do the vehicles much good having the snow all over it.
Colin :?:
Click to expand...

Colin, I can only guess! It's not unusual for farmers/ranchers to put their money in barns & sheds to protect hay and feed. Most equipment is left outside due to costs of constructing shelters. As far as personal vehicles parked outside, it's not very common for farm/ranch people to have a garage or carport to put theirs in...probably another "tradition" or money thing (also, large number of people store stuff in their garages with no room for vehicles). And, of course, in a blizzard/drifting snow situation it wouldn't do any good to have a tractor in a barn if the drifts were too high to drive the tractor through.

These "extreme" blizzards are more rare than not. I think most of areas that get snow have perhaps a foot deep or less and it settles down and/or melts in few days. Exception: the Northern-most cold regions of USA. At our location, we got 6" of snow with some 2-3' drifts on 11/30/06. It was all melted within a week.

Some of the larger farmers in Texas may have 30-50 pieces of major farm equipment that would take a Football field sized barn to keep their equipment in...cost would be astronomical. Even smaller farmers with couple tractors, combine, plows, disks, etc., etc., would require a barn perhaps up to 50 x 150 feet and up to 12-14' high...again the cost would be prohibitive.
 
Australian Cattleman":14ub6qmn said:
We do not know cold.
Has the weather warmed up any since the big falls we heard about in Colorado. We never heard about any other states. It was as if the snow stopped at the border.

Colin :?:
Click to expand...
Some of the major snow was outside of Colorado in Kansas. There is pics on here that shows cattle covered in snow, seems to be frozen solid.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top