ihmanky - 1/20/2024 09:17
Supa Dexta - 1/20/2024 05:16
What it comes down to is they need access to water where they can walk over and get a good drink, without fighting other cows for it, or falling on /or thru ice.
They'll survive on clean, loose snow but I wouldn't make a habit out of it.
This is what I was looking for. This is an extremely rare occurrence here, to be in single digit lows for a solid week and to never approach getting above freezing for the high. Couple that with the dry lead up to that, and the water just didn’t have the flow that it normally has this time of year in this pasture. Initial forecasts had two days in the middle of the cold snap above freezing, with a strong chance of rain that would have accelerated thawing of this small creek, but then the front shifted and the warmup never came. Lesson learned, and won’t use this spot for winter feeding from now on, just needed to make sure I could get through the end of this event.
Cattle water supply issue
