Brrrrr!

[Crestliner]

Hats off to you all you guys with all the animals to feed and keep them warm and healthy in this extreme weather. You are truly the hardest working salt of the earth farmers. From the milk in my glass and the bacon, or chicken or the prime rib on my plate.....I salute your efforts especially this time of year.

[LEP]

It was so cold here yesterday my internet froze.

[sumdumguy]

Good vehicles, cel phones and good roads: Just discussing prairie winter weather with some old guys who remember 2 block heaters in their Chevys and chains ready to go on the floor of the truck just to get home at night from the bar or stook game. Ether, gas-line anti-freeze, shovels, always carrying ski-doo suits behind seat for walking when all else failed. SE of Regina was (and still is) desolate in the winter - there was no one living on farms for the winter because no cattle to keep them. Anyone remember the good ol days?

[AC man]

Hats off to you all you guys with all the animals to feed and keep them warm and healthy in this extreme weather. You are truly the hardest working salt of the earth farmers. From the milk in my glass and the bacon, or chicken or the prime rib on my plate.....I salute your efforts especially this time of year.

I agree,have been there myself! Haven’t had cattle for a number of years now. We had to process feed with a mix mill every 2 to 3 days ,in winter,for our feeders. We didn’t have the option to pick and chose our days. Just hoped that everything would keep running. Good luck to everyone feeding livestock!

[Blaithin]

Need that Chinook on Monday so that the cows can clean up the silage bales they didn’t eat fast enough 😂

[burnt]

Need that Chinook on Monday so that the cows can clean up the silage bales they didn’t eat fast enough 😂

No hard-frozen bales this year yet here - we have had an exceptionally mild winter so far. Just a few inches of frozen material on the outside, which they can chew through.

But that's a good thing because I'm feeding some very wet, wrapped oats/peas/barley bales that would turn into ice cubes in those temperatures. Other years, we have had them freeze so hard that the netwrap doesn't want to come off and the girls can't chew the outer layers off.

Although a mild winter has its own problems, I'll take this for now.

[Blaithin]

No hard-frozen bales this year yet here - we have had an exceptionally mild winter so far. Just a few inches of frozen material on the outside, which they can chew through.

But that's a good thing because I'm feeding some very wet, wrapped oats/peas/barley bales that would turn into ice cubes in those temperatures. Other years, we have had them freeze so hard that the netwrap doesn't want to come off and the girls can't chew the outer layers off.

Although a mild winter has its own problems, I'll take this for now.

There’s even spots in a couple of the hay bales that have frozen.

Sellers may be able to try and talk their way out of mouldy/dusty bales and say they were dry when they baled them.... but if the cores have frozen solid well... Only one way I can think of a core being wet enough to freeze while the outer layers are fine!

[burnt]

There’s even spots in a couple of the hay bales that have frozen.

Sellers may be able to try and talk their way out of mouldy/dusty bales and say they were dry when they baled them.... but if the cores have frozen solid well... Only one way I can think of a core being wet enough to freeze while the outer layers are fine!

Strange - but that kind of strange usually didn't just happen without cause.

Very little good 1st cut made around here last summer. For as dry as it was overall, we never seemed to get that extra day it took to cure it. A little drizzle would drift over the area and there goes the quality.

A lot of wrapping happens around here. Kinda costly, but no leaf loss, no brown, rained on feed.

We cut some triple mix that was planted after barley harvest. Got a little over 2 - 4.5' bales/acre, cut on Oct. 24, baled 2 days later, barely wilted. Cows think it's candy.

So if we would get that kind of cold you have out there, they would freeze right thru and not thaw until June!