Warming begins with SW winds along with a frost-free night. Cows leave straw and move to WG5. 3’s are moved into a split in NG6a. Calves moved to first split SBW2. Calves still getting one alfalfa bale every day.
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Turning colder with NE winds slowing melt. All groups stay put. Alfalfa day for cows. Observed migrating geese piling up on the farm fields along the Musselshell, as I returned home from Helena.
Grey day and morning frost. Everyone stays put. Cows continue working down old straw. Alfalfa day for calves and 3’s.
Grey with 2” fresh snow and a hard morning frost. Alfalfa supplement day for the calves. Next paddock split for 3’s who are fighting the hot wire. I depart for Helmville for Mannix facilitation.
Heavy snow last night (8”) with low of 14 degrees. Calves broke out and I choose to open the rest of paddock. Alf-supp day for cows.
More gusty and biting bitter winds only, lessening at dusk. Cows moved into a paddock strip in WG6 to try and leverage cold weather to clean up straw. Alfalfa fed to calves and 3’s. Calves moved to next paddock split.
Woke to cold winds persisting until evening. All three groups moved to a fresh paddock split-alfalfa for calves.
Warm morning turning sharply cooler and cloudy by evening. Alfalfa day for all three groups. Seventy plus geese are residing at reservoir with maybe a dozen mallards, and 10 Goldeneyes.
Partly cloudy and cooler. I moved both cows and calves to next split. Ryan and family moved 3’s to NG4. I placed bulls in NNG1a (finished fence splitting NNG1 onto 3 units). One white-breasted nuthatch seen in the pines on NNG1.
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