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Big Muddy rancher

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Wasn't very nice out there today so only took one picture. Wanted to show the difference between Soap's and My stackyards.


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Yea that's two bales high on the one side.
 

per

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Burrr. I'll bet if the cows got in there they could find the bottom bale. :) Access would be best attempted with a FWA tractor.
 
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Anonymous

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Don't you have deer problems? I have deer fences around my stacks- but the drifts got so high and hard they were trying to jump it and getting hung up in the fence--actually pulling the wire down so their buddies could get in... Didn't find it in that stack for several days so now all the wire is froze down and it will need to thaw before I can get it stretched back up to its normal height....

Apparently you didn't get the Chinook conditions we got today :???: 30- gusting to 40 mph WNW wind that came up this morning and temps that shot up to 40 degrees....Sure cut and settled some snow- but didn't last long enough to bare the ground or much grass...
 

Soapweed

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Boy, that looks kind of tough, Big Muddy. It could be a long time until spring. Thanks for the pictures. The wind is howling again tonight, but after seeing all your snow, just plain old wind all of a sudden doesn't seem so bad. Ah, but the dandelions will be bloomin' before we know it. :wink:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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We have a deer fence around the stacks at the yard but that one is out in the open and we haven't had deer problems . YET. Had some porcupines bothering the last few years. Shot 2 today when i put the cattle over there.

It was fairly mild but blowing lots of snow. White out while coaxing the cows over but cleared up a bit.
 
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Anonymous

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Its all those commando runs Big Muddy made to the barn last year--Old Ma Nature is just slow getting the moisture there :wink: :p
 

theony

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Speaking of deer. I got a row of bales next to a brushy coulee. It's about 100 yards off the ranch road. I go up there just before dark and glass the deer. Couple nights ago I watched this record class NT White Tail buck come out of the coulee with the does. Never seen this guy before, maybe came down with the wind from Canada. :eek:
 

gcreekrch

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At least now you can play in the tractor for a longer time. :D

I just spent 15 hours plowing time on 4 miles of road to get to some hay, no drifts as it was all through timber. It has been above freezing in the afternoon for nearly a week now.
 

Shelly

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Holey moley, BMR! I think you have more snow down there than we do up here! I feel for you having to deal with that much.
 

Cedarcreek

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Thats why I own a big snowblower. All of our stackyards are located down wind from a coulee to stop a little of the snow before it piles up around the bales. We don't have quite that much snow here.
 

George

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We went to bed with a forcast of 0F but got up to -6F and now hoping for a high of +1F for the day with a forcast of -15F for tonight. The best part of the forcast is for +10F on Saturday.

We have about 2" of snow on the ice so everything is very slick!

I made several bales of winter rye hay this spring that I feel has about the same protien as straw so I have been making sure the cattle have plenty of it. I was quite surprised that they are eating it quicker than the good alfafa / orchard grass mixed hay. They have equal access to both so there must be something in the rye hay they need.

I am using the rye as I have used wheat straw in the past.
 

alabama

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I am sure sorry for y'all. If that was a picture of my place in alabama, my cows would starve to death. I have no way to feed it such conditions. I can't see how y'all do it or how a cow even walks in such conditions.
I thank god for Alabama and the fact that I live here.
 

Blkbuckaroo

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alabama said:
I am sure sorry for y'all. If that was a picture of my place in alabama, my cows would starve to death. I have no way to feed it such conditions. I can't see how y'all do it or how a cow even walks in such conditions.
I thank god for Alabama and the fact that I live here.
You'd get use to it Alabama,You just kinda adapt to your surrondings and conditions.Once you got into snow country you'd never look back at Alabama :p :lol: :roll: :wink:
 

kolanuraven

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Blkbuckaroo said:
alabama said:
I am sure sorry for y'all. If that was a picture of my place in alabama, my cows would starve to death. I have no way to feed it such conditions. I can't see how y'all do it or how a cow even walks in such conditions.
I thank god for Alabama and the fact that I live here.
You'd get use to it Alabama,You just kinda adapt to your surrondings and conditions.Once you got into snow country you'd never look back at Alabama :p :lol: :roll: :wink:


There is NO WAY any of us Southern folks , or cattle for that matter, would get used to THAT!!! :shock: :shock:
 

Blkbuckaroo

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kolanuraven said:
Blkbuckaroo said:
alabama said:
I am sure sorry for y'all. If that was a picture of my place in alabama, my cows would starve to death. I have no way to feed it such conditions. I can't see how y'all do it or how a cow even walks in such conditions.
I thank god for Alabama and the fact that I live here.
You'd get use to it Alabama,You just kinda adapt to your surrondings and conditions.Once you got into snow country you'd never look back at Alabama :p :lol: :roll: :wink:


There is NO WAY any of us Southern folks , or cattle for that matter, would get used to THAT!!! :shock: :shock:
Don't be so thin hided Kola,People have been adapting for Thousands of years :p :lol:
 
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