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<blockquote data-quote="Silver" data-source="post: 1663629" data-attributes="member: 12520"><p>Our cows ran without winter water from 1950 to 2016 or so. I don't like to talk numbers, but we run a few. They generally have access to a lot of acres, including bush. Some years we were happy to have the bush as generally there will be snow there when it can be tough going out in the open. I decided to put them on water because winters seemed to be getting less dependable for early meaningful snowfall. You can get caught around here between freeze-up and meaningful snowfall, and opening water in the creeks can end up in a wreck. Also, we used to separate our first and second calvers to try to keep the younger ones on water (chopping ice on ponds), but I wanted to feed them all together so thought having water for everyone might be a good idea. If nothing else it takes the stress out of watching the weather.</p><p>But if you are going to graze snow you do need a big enough area that they can do it where it's not packed down. That can take some space for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver, post: 1663629, member: 12520"] Our cows ran without winter water from 1950 to 2016 or so. I don't like to talk numbers, but we run a few. They generally have access to a lot of acres, including bush. Some years we were happy to have the bush as generally there will be snow there when it can be tough going out in the open. I decided to put them on water because winters seemed to be getting less dependable for early meaningful snowfall. You can get caught around here between freeze-up and meaningful snowfall, and opening water in the creeks can end up in a wreck. Also, we used to separate our first and second calvers to try to keep the younger ones on water (chopping ice on ponds), but I wanted to feed them all together so thought having water for everyone might be a good idea. If nothing else it takes the stress out of watching the weather. But if you are going to graze snow you do need a big enough area that they can do it where it's not packed down. That can take some space for sure. [/QUOTE]
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