Drinking Behavior in Dairy Cows

[Royd Wood]

Thanks Karin - saved me a job

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Trust me - Galloways can function perfectly well just eating snow. Studies in Canada have shown some cows have gone 50 to 60 days with snow as the sole water source without any adverse effects.

Do u have any reports / links about it ?

I ain't Royd, but I can give you several links on this:

http://www1.foragebeef.ca/$foragebeef/frgebeef.nsf/all/ccf1020
http://www1.foragebeef.ca/$foragebeef/frgebeef.nsf/all/ccf1020/$FILE/snoweatingpoweroutage.pdf
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/beef/facts/09-065.pdf
http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/forages/pdf/bjb05s21.pdf
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/faq7991

Check out the Foragebeef.ca link (the very top one) for more links and research done on this. Also, if you simply Google "Snow as a water source for cattle" you will get a lot of links.

Very interesting information. Thanks for sharing.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Your very welcome, to the both of you.

 

[kstaven]

I note on the links concerning dairy cows they noted "only if you have a clean consistent snow cover. That is one thing we don't have.