Cow Comfort

One of the most common questions we get this time of year is "How do you keep the cattle warm?". One of the most important factors is keeping them dry. They have thick leather coats and hair to keep them warm but wet and cold is a bigger concern.

Left: Cattle out grazing in the snow covered rye grass. They push the snow around with their noses to get to grass that is covered up

Middle: These structures provide shelter from the elements and we bed these shelters with thick layers of sawdust to give them plenty of dry area to lay down

Right: We build sawdust mounds in the pastures that they can walk/lay on. The elevated mounds stay good and dry - you can see the cattle like to hang out around the mounds when they aren't out grazing.