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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1663605" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>Silver, your feeding straight hay.... and always have been in winter apparently. Your cows "never even had access to water until the last few years".......... that's kinda why I asked how many you're running, and then in addition to that one, how large an area are they running on in winter? Not that those things really matter that much. A cow is a cow. What brought you to give them access to water now? How many years did you run them without giving them access to water... and then they just had snow all winter I assume....?</p><p></p><p>I'm asking for my cousin's son who has had his cows just eating snow for water for the last month, with them grazing winter stockpile through the snow. They've been doing really good, and they look to be in good condition, but that clipper from up your way just swung down through here today... -15 tonight with 40 mph winds (they have woods to get into)... he's a little concerned now that he just started feeding them dry baled hay instead of the stockpile. Thinks maybe they'll be needing water... but the snow's so deep now that you can't get out there with anything but a pretty good FWA tractor, so it's pretty difficult for him to get it to them....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1663605, member: 39018"] Silver, your feeding straight hay.... and always have been in winter apparently. Your cows "never even had access to water until the last few years".......... that's kinda why I asked how many you're running, and then in addition to that one, how large an area are they running on in winter? Not that those things really matter that much. A cow is a cow. What brought you to give them access to water now? How many years did you run them without giving them access to water... and then they just had snow all winter I assume....? I'm asking for my cousin's son who has had his cows just eating snow for water for the last month, with them grazing winter stockpile through the snow. They've been doing really good, and they look to be in good condition, but that clipper from up your way just swung down through here today... -15 tonight with 40 mph winds (they have woods to get into)... he's a little concerned now that he just started feeding them dry baled hay instead of the stockpile. Thinks maybe they'll be needing water... but the snow's so deep now that you can't get out there with anything but a pretty good FWA tractor, so it's pretty difficult for him to get it to them.... [/QUOTE]
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