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The Andersons care for about 65 head of Registered Angus, including calves. “We feed grain to our cattle in the winter,” said Bob Anderson. “We use a tractor to “ruffle up” the ice to keep the cows from falling down.
Toni and Randall Updike care for cattle and sheep. “We are hanging in there,” said Mrs. Updike. “We are existing but it is tough on the newborns. So far we have been lucky and we have not lost any. We put the newborns under heat lamps,” she added.
“The man that I know that takes downed cows said he has never seen any- ° thing like this as long as he has been in business,” said Mr. Updike.
Mike Massie puts the feed for his cattle on the back side of a hill so that they won’t have to be in the wind and deal with the chill factor. “It’s the wind chill that really gets to them more than just the cold. Also, we unroll the hay so they can lay down on it too. They eat one and a half to two times as much when it is as cold as it’s been,” he said.
Mike Massie has a new method of watering the heifers in his barn. It is a Mira-Fount, which he purchased at the
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