Bog holes.....pics.

[Cal]

Wet Sandhills meadows are nice to winter cows in, as they'll have springs that stay open even in the coldest weather. Sometimes they get a little too big and deep, though. Will plum swallow up a cow. I didn't have the camera with me when I found this coming 3 yr old today, but wasn't much of her sticking out. I got a chain around her head and pulled her out. She couoldn't stand up for quite a while, and was shivering. She's pretty gaunt, I don't think she would have lasted much longer.

This is the spring hole.

Two of them right together, put panels around them.

The kid took my picture but wouldn't let me take his.

 

[Soapweed]

Portable corral panels are a handy invention, aren't they Cal? Glad you were able to save the heifer.

 

[leanin' H]

When cows get bogged it sure can be ugly and gruesome. Glad ya got her out and fenced off the bad spots.

 

[WyomingRancher]

That was a close call for your heifer :shock: . I'm glad to hear you got her out! I had a cow fall into a bad hole on the forest, but she was pretty much gone by the time I dragged her out.

Just a thought, do you think a cow might stick her head through the panel to get a drink and push the panel and herself, or get pushed into the hole by others crowding around their old water hole?... just asking since it would be something my cows could manage to kill themselves doing .

 

[gcreekrch]

I've had a few cows like that here, some that were not so lucky. I agree with WR and would add a few more panels to lower the temptation of getting a drink.

 

[WyomingRancher]

If you don't have extra panels, you could probably get by with a few steel posts for support. Can you tell this has me concerned ?

 

[HAY MAKER]

Lookin at that mud line on her tells me she is "one lucky cow" is she movin around and eatin ?
good luck

 

[BRG]

Pretty lucky cow. Good job for checking on them

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

Is all the pasture full of bog holes??Seems kinda dangerous for man and beast .

 

[Cal]

If you don't have extra panels, you could probably get by with a few steel posts for support. Can you tell this has me concerned ?

A few more panels would be a good thing, I'll git'r done. Was worried about overloading that Chevrolet. :wink:

 

[Cal]

Lookin at that mud line on her tells me she is "one lucky cow" is she movin around and eatin ?
good luck

We finally got around to start preg checking cows, and she was in the cut we did today. Still a little dehydrated maybe, but coming along.

 

[Hereford76]

she looks like she is in shock

 

[Cal]

Is all the pasture full of bog holes??Seems kinda dangerous for man and beast .

Just along the wettest part of the meadow, and it's sort of odd how the ground around them sort of bulges up slightly like an anthill. Most of the springs are just a small area where a cow can safely water.

 

[WyomingRancher]

If you don't have extra panels, you could probably get by with a few steel posts for support. Can you tell this has me concerned ?

A few more panels would be a good thing, I'll git'r done. Was worried about overloading that Chevrolet. :wink:

Thanks :lol: . That makes me feel much better . Keep us updated on your heifer...looks like she'll be okay.

 

[CattleArmy]

Reminds me of loping through a meadow and suddenly feeling the ground give. Ours aren't open like that they are springholes. Or raking hay and the ground moving or falling through.

 

[Brad S]

I wonder if a crafty well driller could develope an artesan there - you know the turn a negative into a positive thing.

 

[Cal]

I wonder if a crafty well driller could develope an artesan there - you know the turn a negative into a positive thing.

I was wondering if there was a way to warm it up a bit and sell therapeutic mud baths.