This is a day to test if you have the right breed or not

[SRBeef]

Today and the next few days will test whether or not we have the right breed for our weather conditions: 20" of snow, -10 degrees F (-23 degrees C) and 45 mph winds... or if there is a breed for these conditions. Stay safe yourselves too.

Jim

 

[3waycross]

Sounds like a Galloway or Highlander kind of day to me.

 

[R.N.Reed]

I think I can top that 35deg and rained solid all day yesterday with a strong east wind,I'll tell you how much snow when it quits sometime tonight and that strong NW wind is supposed to hit this afternoon,a typical winter cycle in IL.

 

[JHH]

I think I can top that 35deg and rained solid all day yesterday with a strong east wind,I'll tell you how much snow when it quits sometime tonight and that strong NW wind is supposed to hit this afternoon,a typical winter cycle in IL.

We got the same stuff but it is now freezing cold and wing really blowing. Havent checked the cows yet but they were ok yesterday.

 

[gizmom]

That kind of weather is not only a test of if you have the right breed, it is a test of the man/woman doing the work to take care of the breed. Stay safe, and warm if that is possible.

Gizmom

 

[dieselbeef]

we got 30 mph gusts right now and by tues am itll be 25...the rain has passed and the temp is fallin like snow

im in florida kids..central fl....

 

[P.A.L]

Today and the next few days will test whether or not we have the right breed for our weather conditions: 20" of snow, -10 degrees F (-23 degrees C) and 45 mph winds... or if there is a breed for these conditions. Stay safe yourselves too.

Jim

That sounds like Finland to me. We dont have so much winds (i think). Last winter temperatures stayed at -20 to -30degrees C for 3 months. I mostly have Herefords. they don't consume extra feed like the rest of the breeds in this climate. Thick skin, good hair and enough size makes it.

 

[1982vett]

Jogee, you got those snowchains on them tractors?

 

[upfrombottom]

I think some of you guys up north need to check your gates. I believe what I felt a few minutes ago, came strait off the tip of a glacier.

 

[Oldtimer]

Well its about the same up here today- not fit for man nor beast..
This morning it was sunny but 10 Below- and while I was plowing thru the snow feeding the wind came up and got the foot or 2 of snow we have to blowing...25-30 mph winds and about a 30 Below chill factor....Couldn't even find the tracks from one trip to the stack to the other... :shock:
Then this afternoon the snow started-- which came down horizontally- which then turned to snain because of the warmer upper air temps (west of us got freezing rain)....
Temp is up to 10 above- but still snowing, blowing and drifting...Wind is supposed to die down later tonight- and Temp is predicted to get in 30's tomorrow- so I plugged the loader tractor in and we will try and dig out in the morning...

 

[Nesikep]

we had a cold snap 3 weeks ago when it got down to -23C (-10F), we didn't get snow, and well, I guess you'd call it a stiff breeze... our shorthorns grow a 2" coat for the winter, they just kept on grazing.. I'm wondering if that's all Mr Winter has for us... lol the coldest we've seen at our place was -28C (~-20F) and that was 5 days short of 20 years ago

 

[ALACOWMAN]

im just glad i aint got any more purebred brahman anymore,,, like i did in the blizzard of 93.

 

[oscar p]

I bought 4 Brahman at Ashville stockyard in November. Their stacked up against the barn.out of the wind. But their making it.

 

[vclavin]

Well its about the same up here today- not fit for man nor beast..
This morning it was sunny but 10 Below- and while I was plowing thru the snow feeding the wind came up and got the foot or 2 of snow we have to blowing...25-30 mph winds and about a 30 Below chill factor....Couldn't even find the tracks from one trip to the stack to the other... :shock:
Then this afternoon the snow started-- which came down horizontally- which then turned to snain because of the warmer upper air temps (west of us got freezing rain)....
Temp is up to 10 above- but still snowing, blowing and drifting...Wind is supposed to die down later tonight- and Temp is predicted to get in 30's tomorrow- so I plugged the loader tractor in and we will try and dig out in the morning...

Sure glad you got the snow.. :banana: We are not ready for that white stuff yet. You can have the 50mph gusts we had yesterday too oh yes, and that 20 below zero..brrrrr. Angus cows didn't seem to notice must be the huge compost pile they stand behind out of the wind. ;-)
Valerie

 

[Galloways1]

Sounds like a Galloway or Highlander kind of day to me.

You are correct with that statement. We have 18 inches of snow on the ground. This weekend we had 30 + mph winds, -20 F temps... Our Galloway and Galloway X Angus were out grazing, or bedded down out in the corn fields. Our straight Angus, well not so much, they stood up by the windbreaks all day, into the evening.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

I bought 4 Brahman at Ashville stockyard in November. Their stacked up against the barn.out of the wind. But their making it.

their tough,,, i had one that fell through a low place one february... she walked out on it and done the splits and broke through the ice and injured herself,,, would not get up... it was a couple hours from dark, and the temp was suppose to be 10 ..with WC below zero.. i got her out..,though not without a fight , with all the comotion would'nt get in the barn.. stood out all night long wet and freezing was still in the same spot the next morning shaking like a dog but alive. i did put her hay and some grain where she stood but surprized she didnt die

 

[KMacGinley]

Jim: I am sure that your "too fat" heifers will come through with flying colors.

 

[SRBeef]

Jim: I am sure that your "too fat" heifers will come through with flying colors.

I was looking at them the other day as the snowstorm rolled in and thought the same thing - these girls look just about right for this weather. They are thinning down a little bit but I think they will be just fine by calving time. A bit of fat will serve them well in the -10 deg F temps and -20 F windchills. More snow coming tomorrow night on top of the 15" or last weekend. Those Herefords are tough.

Hope yours are OK too.

Jim

 

[KMacGinley]

Don't worry, my heifers are good and fat too! Hard for them not to be that way and good for them to be that way for the weather we have been having...