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Sunrise and Ice, Dec 3-7

gcreekrch

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Sunrise Dec 3
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Dec 5
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After two nights of rain on top of what little snow we had it got pretty slippery here for a few days. Another inch of snow that came at the end of the rain has fortunately frozen to the ice and we can walk normally again.
Calves feedground
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The one corner that still had snow on top.
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From the loading chute looking out the driveway.
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Leaving home for a load of hay. An old sawmill site in the foreground, fog in the valley, Rainbow Mtns in the background.
The little village of Anahim Lake is in the center of the scene, underneath the fog.
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WyomingRancher

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You do have a lot of ice, yesterday it was 55 degrees here, and melted most of the ice I had. However, tonite it's snowing again and a balmy 17 degrees :D .

Your calves look very nice. Have they just been on hay? :D
 

PureCountry

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Great pics. Did the freesing rain and back and forth with flurries here, too. Gates and fencelines are all ice on one side. Makes it right annoying to pull twines off of bales now with all that crust.
 

gcreekrch

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WyomingRancher said:
You do have a lot of ice, yesterday it was 55 degrees here, and melted most of the ice I had. However, tonite it's snowing again and a balmy 17 degrees :D .

Your calves look very nice. Have they just been on hay? :D

Right now they are getting about 8 lbs of hay, 8 lbs of 70%moisture wrapped oat silage and 1.5 lbs rolled barley. They are in too big of a pen to stay fleshy but they are staying healthy. We are sorting the light end off this weekend to lessen their competition.
 

Jassy

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Luv the first 2 photo's...framers fer sure! We're getting our little 30mph winds and snow tonite..thankfully no ice..that's not fun...thanks great photo's :wink:
 

gcreekrch

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PureCountry said:
Great pics. Did the freesing rain and back and forth with flurries here, too. Gates and fencelines are all ice on one side. Makes it right annoying to pull twines off of bales now with all that crust.

Thanks, I hear you about the twine. I would prefer sisal but we haul a lot of our hay home in the winter.
I guess we could do the bale pro guys way and just feed it to the cows.
A neighbor asked me last winter why some of his big healthy cows were dying.
I told him there must be so much protein in that plastic twine it must be killing them. :wink:
 
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