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WATER IN THE WINTER
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<blockquote data-quote="agmantoo" data-source="post: 806118" data-attributes="member: 8973"><p>My personal observations at my place.</p><p></p><p>Given a choice:</p><p>Cattle will drink drilled sourced well water and walk a long distance (1000+ ft) to access the well water instead of water from a nearby stream. I have 3 streams, 2 are spring fed and the 3rd is a creek sourced from ground and surface water.</p><p></p><p>Cattle will walk more than 800 feet to access either clean stream or well water over clean fresh nearby available snow.</p><p></p><p>Well water is preferred in both hot and cold weather.</p><p></p><p>Overtime the cattle will almost cease drinking anywhere but at the well and will leave the streams alone.</p><p></p><p>I have read where heifers would just as soon drink dirty water as clean water. That is not true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agmantoo, post: 806118, member: 8973"] My personal observations at my place. Given a choice: Cattle will drink drilled sourced well water and walk a long distance (1000+ ft) to access the well water instead of water from a nearby stream. I have 3 streams, 2 are spring fed and the 3rd is a creek sourced from ground and surface water. Cattle will walk more than 800 feet to access either clean stream or well water over clean fresh nearby available snow. Well water is preferred in both hot and cold weather. Overtime the cattle will almost cease drinking anywhere but at the well and will leave the streams alone. I have read where heifers would just as soon drink dirty water as clean water. That is not true. [/QUOTE]
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