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Can't Believe It!!!

Seems like we are all having our fair share of trouble. Katrina, and NR do you always notice it has to be one of the better ones that dies and not the scrubby one of the group. Thats what seems to happen around here. :roll:
 
Murphy's Law. It applies to everything. Your favorite cat will be the one to get run over, yet the nasty smelly barn tom will live to be 18. The horse that you paid 20,000 for will live a week and then die of a mysterious illness!, the $100.00 auction mule will survive for decades with no food or water. The list goes on. So sorry to hear about your losses guys :(
 
Sorry about your bad luck.- You got off easy compared to some though. My neighbor lost 7 - 2 yr old buffalo through the ice (thought they would be smarter than cows),-- I was able to save one as it was half way up the bank and roped it and yarded it out with the tractor Sure made me sick to see the rest die in front of me (A passerby came and got me when they just went in, and it took about an hour in total for them to succum to the freezing water I'm thinking). I just heard that a fellow who lives about 8 miles from me lost 25 of his 35 cows through the ice. Now these guys are not full time ranchers, but it still hurts them, and I feel sorry for the animals. Just glad I have all my dugouts fenced. My cows lick snow or use waterers if they are in the area. Never experienced so many going through the ice untill this year, I just heard from the old timers to watch out. :(
 
Very sorry NR and others to hear of so many losses. After all the hard work you put into raising and tending your stock it must be a huge disappointment. I hope this winter gets easier for you all.
 
Just heard on the news a guy by Viking lost around 120 head breaking through a dugout. Greg said he couldn't remember the guys name....maybe Pure Country does.

Darn sad :(
 
Published: Monday, December 11, 2006
VIKING, Alta. — About 170 cattle have either drowned or died of exposure in a farm dugout near Viking, Alta.

Efforts are underway to pull the carcasses of about 100 cows and close to 70 calves that broke through the ice on the farm late last week.

Floyd Mullaney with Alberta Agriculture's investigation unit says he's only seen something like this once before in the eight years he's been involved in such work.

He says there's no compensation available to the farmer, unless he has an insurance policy covering such losses.

Friends and neighbours are planning a charity auction to help the farmer.

Viking is about 100 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.
 
I complained aboout my shoes till I met a man with no feet-my deal was just a bump in the road that one is like driving over a cliff. The ice conditions this year are absolutely terrible on the lakes this year-I don't think anybody will be going ice fishing at all. The weight of the snow has cracked the ice so that water is coming up making slush over everything-going to be a hard year on the commercial fishermen up here too.
 
I just heard about the fellow at Viking yesterday. Darn shame, but I'm not sure why 170 head would be crowded out on a dugout. We've got lots of snow this year for them to lick. But I guess if they're on full feed they're probably looking for open water as opposed to licking snow.
 
The Edmonton journal interviewed the owner,read it this morning at work.Apparently the dugout was in a low spot so when it started snowing and blowing the cattle went for shelter in the low spot. Owner had opened the dugout in a few spots,so when the cattle huddled on the blown over dugout it started breaking :cry: 100 head of black angus cows ,alot of them first time calvers and seventy calves.
 
Terrible, it is hard to lose one let alone several.... There is a story going around that someone out in the Maple Creek area lost over 70 head during that storm too. They broke out of the pasture they were in and went trucking down the railway tracks. The first train got over 30 and the second got the rest.... Can't imagine something like that.
 

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