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Just because the temperatures drop to below zero and snow is falling, ranchers cannot stop working. Animals need to be taken care of.
Castleton rancher C.J. Blew, along with his three teenagers and his brother, are up during the night in case their Red Angus cows start to give birth. We ve been checking all night, Blew said. It takes significant work.
Because the temperatures are unusually low, ranchers are breaking ice at least twice a day where their cattle drink.
Wade Redger, a fourth-generation rancher in Plains, is thankful the wind is not as strong where he is. He has brought his few-hundred-strong herd closer to shelter, and has put up round bales for windbreaks on his farm, Redger Farms. Like Blew, he and his family are busy breaking ice and checking on the animals.