Eighteen below this morning, down from sixteen below yesterday at this time. The winds are calm, though, which makes a considerable difference. Hay consumption is way up. The cattle seem healthy though. We have the cowherd on the waste product from the pretzel factory in town and free choice cornstalk bales. We haven't yet tried the market herd on the waste.
This stuff is supposed to be high in protein. We need to get a feed analysis on it so we can make informed choices about feeding it. The sow herd, which has been on it some time, shows evidence of fairly high salt content judging by the amount of excess urine. That would be pretty much expectable from a snack food I guess.
One drinker out of the seven is giving us freezeup problems this cold snap. Not fun. Could be worse. High of 24 expected for tomorrow.
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