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TimH
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Location: Southwest Manitoba
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Mike
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Location: Montgomery, Al
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Oldtimer
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Location: Northeast Montana
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TimH- Keep it up there- or better yet send it to rancher- let him cuss the beautiful moisture as he's warming cold wet calves-- We got a couple of inches last night- everything is a sloppy mess... Luckily so far the temp is still staying up there- was 31 this morning.. only had 4 new calves during the night, but when I came in after tagging them I think I was wetter than the calves......
They are saying we could get 3 or 4 more inches in next day or two--but you can keep the foot and the wind......
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ranchwife
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: ennis, montana
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TimH- Keep it up there- or better yet send it to rancher- let him cuss the beautiful moisture as he's warming cold wet calves-- We got a couple of inches last night- everything is a sloppy mess... Luckily so far the temp is still staying up there- was 31 this morning.. only had 4 new calves during the night, but when I came in after tagging them I think I was wetter than the calves......
They are saying we could get 3 or 4 more inches in next day or two--but you can keep the foot and the wind...... |
OT, just read in the butte paper that our moisture for february was at a 111 year low!! not good news.....been flurrying here all morning after raining most of yesterday!! the paper also said that many of the eastern montana counties are already seeing ranchers selling off their herds due to the drought!! what are you hearing in your neck of the woods?
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Oldtimer
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Location: Northeast Montana
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TimH- Keep it up there- or better yet send it to rancher- let him cuss the beautiful moisture as he's warming cold wet calves-- We got a couple of inches last night- everything is a sloppy mess... Luckily so far the temp is still staying up there- was 31 this morning.. only had 4 new calves during the night, but when I came in after tagging them I think I was wetter than the calves......
They are saying we could get 3 or 4 more inches in next day or two--but you can keep the foot and the wind...... |
OT, just read in the butte paper that our moisture for february was at a 111 year low!! not good news.....been flurrying here all morning after raining most of yesterday!! the paper also said that many of the eastern montana counties are already seeing ranchers selling off their herds due to the drought!! what are you hearing in your neck of the woods? |
Actually ranchwife- we're still in pretty good shape up here....About a 6-7 county area here in the northeast that had a record high moisture year last year-due in part to our 80+ inches of snow--- then we've gotten some snow and rain this winter and spring-- I think we're sitting at about normal for the year and about a 1/2 inch over for the month of March....... But south toward rancher is still pretty dry I guess....The only thing we're short of so far is runoff from the mountains for irrigating....
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Nicky
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: N.E. Oregon
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TimH
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Location: Southwest Manitoba
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Buckskin
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Location: N E Montana
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Nicky
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Posts: 1503
Location: N.E. Oregon
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| We've had crows all winter, the meadowlarks and killdeers have been here a couple weeks. Even saw a bluebird on the way to church.
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Big Muddy rancher
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: Big Muddy valley
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Nicky
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Location: N.E. Oregon
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Oldtimer
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Posts: 16285
Location: Northeast Montana
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| Looks like the storm is past us- ended up with a little over two inches of snow and about a quarter inch of moisture-- sloppy mess last night, but its froze today- Only supposed to get about 30 today- but no wind- and the sun is shining...Back into the 50's by Friday-- Turned the cows out of the holding lot and sent them on their own again-- I did find one other reason I can't use one of Mikes bulls-- one of the cows that I missed and didn't get in before the storm showed up down in the hayfield-- when I drove over to check her I almost ran over the calf- white little fella thanks to a neighbors charlois bulls- blended right in with the snowbank he was laying by... Couple days old and doing fine.....
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