A guest down at the ranch here one winter was a rancher/outfitter from the Yukon. He was telling me that a couple of weeks before, they had a week or so when the temperature never got above -40 F. I asked him what he did with his cows when it was that cold, thinking that they might have put them in a barn or some other kind of shelter.
He said that they just left them in good winter pasture that had protection from the wind. He also said that in those temperatures, he had to lay the hay right at the cows' front feet because they wouldn't walk even a few steps to get to it! Not for me!
Ben
Some days it takes most of the day for me to do practically nothing...
