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10:19 AM CST Thursday 11 January 2007
Wind chill warning for
Virden - Souris continued

Bitterly cold wind chill values.


It was -33 here this morning with no windchill.


Highly variable weather can be expected across the Red River Valley and the McCreary area today as bands of snow continue crossing the region. Areas affected by the snow bands are seeing visibilities dropping to near zero in snow and blowing snow. Outside of the snow bands visibility is fair to good, with any visibility reduction caused by blowing snow alone.
Much colder air is now flooding into southern Manitoba with temperatures of minus 25 or lower moving in by afternoon and wind chills approaching minus 40 by evening. Further north the cold air has already arrived with wind chill values near minus 40 this morning over the northern Interlake regions. Conditions should improve tonight as winds diminish however very cold temperatures will continue overnight into Friday.
 
Ya know...I appreciate all that you share with us down here in the states...but don't feel like ya have to share your cold temps with us!...Ya can just keep that windchill and snow to enjoy yourselves...lol :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
NR,

Dont ya wish you had a big herd of cows calving right now?...... ya I wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy. Just came in from putting the MX in the shop and the thermometer says -39 bet it hits -45 by morning.
 
I got a good supply of heat lamps.calf tubers,ear warmers,hot boxes etc that haven't been used in ten years-the layer of dust is free lol. The best investment I made was a padlock for the bull pen that doesn't get unlocked till late July lol.
 
NR,

You better watch Jason dont come up to your neck of the woods and cut that padlock off your bull pen say around March 30. Keep a watch out. Heck as cold as it is up in your area he would likely get frostbite before he found ya. :lol:
 
I break into a cold sweat thinking about calving the 4H heifer in March lol. Our last foray into pen calving was 190 heifers in March of '04-they were worth zilch after BSE so we calved them instead of selling them-the buyer walked from his contract lol. Anyway my wife and kids were pretty blunt about that being the last pen calving on our place. Those EXT derived heifers put a new appreciation in them for how fast a fat man can run lol.
 
You just have to have the right set up to handle January calving.

Like i said before, there are places I have seen that I wouldn't think of doing it. It works here for what I am doing and that's all that matters.
 
She's -37 out there right now, and -50 with the wind. Don't care how well set up you are, calving in that kind of cold is simply alot of work. I'm bringing my stock in mid Feb this year (I don't mind pen calving, its less stressful for a control freak than calving on grass), and I hope this cold snap is all we see this year.

Rod
 
You got that right Diamond S-I have friends NW of me can stall 100 cows at one time in two huge barns-got all the bells and whistles and calving this time of year is a death march. They average a calf an hour for six weeks-saving the fresh ones isn't the job it's the ones from the previous week that drive you nuts. I have enough facilities to calve now and fortunately I'm lazy enough to not want to. Remember a reformed January calver is more annoying to argue with than a drunk who joined AA-no compromise in either case.
 
Northern Rancher said:
saving the fresh ones isn't the job it's the ones from the previous week that drive you nuts.
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Interesting. I never have trouble with the week olds in cold. But then I don't have a big barn. My critters drop outside, they get run inside for a few hours while the calf dries off and gets his first suck, then they get the boot out again. I bed heavy, and the calves have shelters they can get into. I do get into trouble once in awhile when I have a big cluster of calves and run out of room for drying off. My wife has had to get used to a calf stumbling around in the porch every once in a blue moon :)

Calving on grass for me is shear hell. Even though I rarely have a momma who refuses a calf, I still tend to watch like a hawk. Unfortunately, they get into the bush, or haying/seeding season comes around and I'm unable to watch as close as I want. It stresses me out :)

"Remember a reformed January calver is more annoying to argue with than a drunk who joined AA-no compromise in either case."

:lol: :lol: Not gonna argue :) I learned a long time ago that what works for one doesn't work for another. But being a Feb calver myself, I know what happens to the workload at -40, even if you have lots of barn space. I'm not a big fan of pen cleaning :)

Rod
 
Manitoba, you enjoy that nice heated cab and good Bale King during that weather that's gonna leave some brass monkeys ball-less, ya hear
 

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