Cows that have come to the valley to winter on corn stalks must share the corn with the Canadian geese that also winter here. There are several thousand geese with the neighbors cows that are grazing the field by our house in Scottsbluff as I post this. Our own cows were moved to a new field last week that had too much corn spilled onto the ground from the combine. Naturally a few of them over ate resulting in inflammation in their hooves (founder) causing them to be lame. Hopefully they will recover. The cows are doing very well this winter because it has been very dry (bad deal) with no snow to cover up the feed on the ground (good deal).
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