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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot | Where would you gather them or trail them to? I don't know about the Dakota's, but most if not all operations here wouldn't have anything more than a somewhat sheltered valley or field to put them in anyway. I've got a neighbor who runs about 1,000 pair. One of the oldest ranches in the area, yet they don't have any, none, indoor cattle pens. Their cattle are out on pastures measured in square miles, 30-40 miles away. Most here are that way. It takes a long time to gather cattle off of range, and most don't just go out and round them up all at once. The cattle drift in on their own and they help push them or chum them into a shipping pen if they don't drive them home.
Cows do fine, actually better, in the wide open if they are acclimated to it and well fed. This was obviously a freak storm with all the wrong combinations. Knowing most livestock guys, they did absolutely everything possible to save what they could with what they had. | |
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How is the South Dakota storm that much different than..........
