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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Fanners and their animals seemed to have fared well during last week’s ice storm. “We had a lot of warning about it,” said Mike Massie of Massies Corner.
“I often think of a four-legged animal as having four-wheel drive, but that is not so on this ice,” said Louis Moore, Jr. of Flint Hill. Mr. Moore and his cows made it through the cold and ice all right. “We feed them extra hay. We had one or two calves born and they made it through just fine. It got slippery around the feed troughs, so we'moved them to another part of the pasture,” he said.
Bill Oliver of Woodville, who takes care of about 1,500 cattle and calves, said his worst problem had been the diesel fuel in tractors “jellying up.” He said, “So far we have not had any problems, and we have not had all the tractors not running at the same time.”
One of the worst things that can happen with ice on the ground is that animals can slip and do a split, fracturing their pelvis. Of the farmers polled for this article, fortunately none had had this problem.
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