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Don't envy all of you that take care of livestock. BTDT helping my Grandfather when he was still alive. Doesn't matter the weather or what you have to do, livestock get taken care of first.

There are two things I will always remember him saying. Livestock will give trouble at the worst possible time. And, when going somewhere, seeing livestock in someones pasture with their ribs and hip bones showing, his comment was "SOB shouldn't be allowed to own animals if he is not going to take care of them".

So ya'll be safe.

Feeding livestock at minus 10 or even lower has its challenges. But it still beats the hell out of working somewhere else for someone else.

We used to get weather like that every winter for a week or two. Usually the last week of Dec to the first two weeks of Jan.

We were only feeding 100 pair, a half dozen bulls, and thirty of last years calves. But I really enjoyed the winter of '80-81 when I got to harness a team every morning at dark-thirty for that day's feeding. Sabbath was extra fun, as we had to be finished feeding before daylight in order to get breakfast and make services on time.

But, heck, I have not even seen a calf with the ends of his ears frost bitten off since the early '80's.

Through the '70'S, a good share of our dairy herd had cropped ears. That was despite the calves always had a roof over their head and three walls.

Those damned heelers don't appear to have any kind of winter coat, but the little schitts are absolutely amazing. In the coldest of conditions, they are ready to go. They will be found rolling in the snow like a silly pup at 20 degrees below zero.

He needs a hat too. I've seen a couple heelers with ears that have been frostbit!

It kinda' looks like you duct taped that coat on him.........

He's grown since your new puppy pic's.

Casey

I think you need to cold weather test a few loads.......


Casey

Looks like he's making a good pardner for you, Don.

Don, I think you finally posted a photo showing your good side......

Damn cold!

We've been stuck in a bit of a cold snap here too, hovering around -10F daytime and -17F overnight. Not too bad until it gets windy, then it gets a bit ugly. Chickens are feeling it, especially the roosters with their larger combs. The turkeys on the other hand don't seem to care a whole lot, till 2 days ago they still chose to roost outside overnight.

You and I should stick with the full cover look

after all, we did go to different schools together....

The last week has been fairly nippy indeed. Missouri froze over the other night and yesterday we started feeding the old cows so now everybody is waiting for chow in the morning.


Taught Whitey how to chop ice, he's a natural!




Flave, the key to dealing with the cold is turning up the heater in the pickup...duh.



And to really heat this thread up.....

Aviators, dink mawfackers, dink!