Cows in the deep snow

[buckfarmer]

How do your cows deal with these big snows you guys get somewhat often. Our cows never see the bottom side of a roof. But we have plenty of hollows and woods where the cows always seem to find the best conditions. We usually take feed to them wherever they are when the weather gets bad. Only have a few cows now but several years ago had as many as 80 to 100.

[Nebrfarmr]

Push it out of the way, and feed them like always.   We get more wasted hay, if we put it on top of deep snow.

[buckfarmer]

That's the kind of thing I was wandering about. Do you build wind breaks or let the cattle find the best places in the pasture that mother nature provides? Do you have to clear snow away from water tanks also?

[Nebrfarmr]

Water tanks are not a problem for me, as the tanks are in the yard.   We do have windbreaks, a row of them to block the wind from the South and East, and another row about a half mile away, that blocks the wind from the North and West.  We also have a few rolling canyons in the pasture, that naturally divert the wind, as well.