What a Difference

[randiliana]

a couple days makes!! Major blizzard here yesterday and today. We have banks on top of banks! Made feeding quite interesting today, but everything got done. Just took a little longer...

Here's what it looked like a couple days ago. Temps were right around freezing.

And here is what it was like this morning. Temps right around 0F

Big job, and only just did the absolutely necessary since the wind was still blowing.

And once we got that gate cleaned out we were able to take care of the replacement heifers.

 

[Isomade]

Great pics! But keep the white stuff up there.

 

[kenny thomas]

Its 10:15 pm and its 60F here. Had to turn the heat down tonight.
I sure would have to change how I take care of the cows if it snowed much here. Still grazing for another 60 days I hope.

 

[Deepsouth]

I am sitting here in short pants with the conditioner running. I have only put a light jacket a few mornings this winter if winter is what you want to call it down here. I love the pictures and your cattle look good. Thanks for sharing and stay warm up there.

 

[H and H]

... just when I thought ranching in Canada sounded like a plan.

Thanks for the pics and the reality check.

 

[3waycross]

Randi please send us at least 12" of that snow..................please!

 

[grubbie]

We got hit with cold temps as well, but not near that much snow. 0 degrees on the thermometer with 35-40 mph winds from the north, not sure wht the wind chill is. All of our snow was blown down to Colorado....I see you are feeding with a hydrabed, only way to fly, we love ours.

 

[3waycross]

We got hit with cold temps as well, but not near that much snow. 0 degrees on the thermometer with 35-40 mph winds from the north, not sure wht the wind chill is. All of our snow was blown down to Colorado....I see you are feeding with a hydrabed, only way to fly, we love ours.

All of ours is in New Mexico along with an inch of topsoil. When i pulled into the sale barn yesterday there was a duststorm going on. That wouldn't be so unusual but it happened to be snowing at the time!

 

[randiliana]

Well, I would love to send you some 3way, but the winds apparently weren't strong enough! I thought that they should be. You could certainly have the temps though! Frozen truck and frozen watering bowls, I would definitely pass along too. We have banks where I've never seen them before, it is interesting getting around, but the snowblower is helping.

H and H, the snow just keeps things interesting. I'd much rather have the snow, than no snow though. Now we know that the creeks will all run and the dugouts will all fill up and/or flush out.

 

[randiliana]

Here's a few photos from this morning. There will be more, once we get the feed truck thawed out and can get out to feed the cows!

Getting to the troughs was a bit difficult!

Behind that bale feeder in the big snow bank is our chute and squeeze. We can't get to them, and even if we could, we wouldn't be able to use them, they are full, full, full....

4H calves and fats

 

[wbvs58]

How many inches of snow is equivalent to 1 inch of rain?
Ken

 

[randiliana]

Depends on the snow.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weather/ ... 40277.html

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

I always enjoy your pictures Randi.

 

[3waycross]

How many inches of snow is equivalent to 1 inch of rain?
Ken

kinda like what's a henway.......depends on the hen

 

[inyati13]

Oh, I enjoy pictures like this. I have lived in Casper, WY (1980-87) and Helena, MT (1987-2005). Even though MT was further north, those winters on those high plains and basins in WY are awesome. And dangerous. I had a couple close calls doing what I didn't know better at the time to be doing!!!!! One was coyote hunting up in the Shirley basin in January. Got stuck in a drift and had to walk out. Got to the blacktop about sundown. I saw a car parked on the side of the road. Walked up and a guy was sitting in it. He put the window down about 2 inches. I said I need help, I am stranded. BTW temperatures were subzero up there. He said get in, I'm out of gas. I did, finally a couple young guys came along and hauled us out to a main road.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Awesome! Don't you love how the fields are almost bare. That was the kind of storm we had between Christmas & New Years. Always soooo hard to tell how much snow you actually get when it's blowing so bad. I tell people I need to go into the woods & measure it there, then average what I have in the open fields!
That's a LOT OF WORK! notice even the cattle wouldn't walk thru it to get to their hay.

 

[Victoria]

Dumps like that make life more difficult. When it happens I have a mantra: "I don't have to deal with snakes, I don't have to deal with snakes."LOL We haven't got much for snow, it's 5 degrees outside and two calves have been born. This is just odd. Can't believe how easy calving is when you aren't dealing with -30 and snow!

 

[HOSS]

I love snow! In certain hunting situations and in pictures only. I hate wind......I REALLY hate wind + snow I'll keep my Tennessee winters were we get 1 or 2 snows a year and rarely over 3" when we get one.

 

[Running Arrow Bill]

... just when I thought ranching in Canada sounded like a plan.

Thanks for the pics and the reality check.

IMO...anything NORTH of I-40 is the Arctic Circle! When I was younger and crazier spent time in Colorado and South Dakota and Kansas... "Quoth The Raven"...lol

 

[randiliana]

Aww, come on you guys!! Its not that bad... And the snow has shrunk right down now, a week of above freezing will do that! Now its cold again... But its supposed to warm up to around freezing by the weekend. LOL!! But I do have to admit, yesterday when it was in the -30°C with the windchill, I wouldn't have minded visiting you again Running Arrow!

Here's a few shots from around Jan 12-15

And a couple shots of our water source... It froze up on us and we had to chip through about 18" of ice but when we got through it here's what we found!

Here's a shot from a couple days later in the same spot as the second photo.

Here's what it looked like downstream a couple days later.. there was only snow here before!