Odds are she simply won’t drink milk that doesn’t come from her mommy because it is cold and taste funny. I had a Galloway calf who lost her mother and I couldn’t get her to touch milk I bought for her or milk replacer. If she drinks her fill of water she is doing well. Cold weather will slow down how much cows drink too. I dont know maybe your cows down there think this is cold? 
So long as she gets up on her own and eats I wouldn’t worry too much. Cows will definitely let you know if they want more water. They will eat snow to keep them happy too but I am guessing down there snow is not a readily available resource for her.
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Minus 39C here this morning before sunrise, -38.2F, nearing that convergence point of minus 40 
That’s the coldest temperature in 3 years, and one of the coldest in the last 25.
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Garry, where is the unlike button to push. I have never been exposed to that cold of temperatures before. I bet it stings your skin when exposd to that kind of cold.
Bob
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I spent a week in Nome, AK many years ago diving in their drinking water reservoir to repair some serious leaks.
At times it dropped to 40 below… nothing but PAIN when we were outside even for very short time.
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You get used to it, good winter apparel is the key. But you definitely don’t want your fingers exposed too long. As long as you’re moving / working and dressed right it’s not so bad. Any breeze sure makes a difference in comfort level when it’s cold. If it’s still, a bubble of warm air seems to hang on a body. Sure puts a damper on outdoor projects or mechanic work. For splitting wood it would be about perfect.
Diving in those temperatures sounds brutal.
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I had to laugh when Kristijan was talking about cold weather. He said he preferred to wear his jewels on the outside. 
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Yup what gets me is the constant breezes or wind I seem to be getting this winter. Like you said I can dress for the cold so long as I don’t over dress and over heat working but that is where layers come in.
The only problem I have splitting wood this time of year is that it is all frozen to the ground. 
I do more work getting it out of the ice pile than actually splitting it somedays.
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No ice forming from snow melt in these conditions. The snow is like sugar. Green wood splits like a charm in this cold, no bugs, no sweating.
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Yup you seem to run an entire level colder then me… just watch out that your wedge doesn’t shatter when you hit it. Lol
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No wedges needed to split ordinary wood in the cold, it splits exceptionally well.
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51" of snow from last Thursday til this Thursday. It hasn’t actually stopped snowing these last eight days…soon I am going out and taking a picture by that ribbon on the trail, and show you it’s chest high now.
It’s funny how incredibly well those snowblower truck engines are running in this. And no blown shear pins yet either!
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Better you than me buddy. Most of the Lake Effect went north of us. Pretty happy about that.
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I put logs in a car tire and split them. That saves a lotof bending your back and if you miss, you only hit some rubber. Really fast way like this.
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-40 for the 3rd straight morning. -20 or colder for the past week. This seems to be a month later than usual. We has a warm January but not the warmest on record. I imagine February may be the coldest on record this year.
Yesterday I bought 5-40 diesel oil to put in the generator because the 15-40 is too thick to circulate when it’s this cold. I use #1 diesel fuel and don’t have any problem with the fuel.
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Minus 40 here this morning. The propane pressure is down, its getting closer to it’s liquefaction point I guess.
I tried pouring some winter grade chainsaw bar oil yesterday, it wouldn’t pour properly, I warmed it up and thinned it with some naphtha. Interesting that winter grade doesn’t mean minus 30 or past. I should get a video this morning of what 5W30 synthetic motor oil and chain oil look like in this cold.
Our start to winter was apparently the warmest ever. February will reduce the average, but it’s far from the coldest. In 1996 we had a stretch of 17 days of maximum temperatures below minus 20C. One day in early February 1996 the daytime high was minus 38. And if you look back farther the winters were colder yet, 100 years ago minus 40 and 45 were ordinary winter events. That’s why we’ve warmed at least one climate zone, and in some parts of the province nearing 2 climate zones in a century. Meanwhile the" hotspot" in Manitoba many mornings has been Churchill, on the Hudson bay coast. The high arctic is 30C warmer than normal.
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We got a pretty serious ice storm here last night. They had been predicting a foot of snow, but instead we got half an inch of rain at 28 degrees. Everything is covered in ice. All night the valley was alive with the sound of snapping branches. It was pretty wild. Thankfully I have been felling trees all around my place in preparation for next years fire season - so there were no trees left that threatened my buildings. I had planned on leaving a big madrone tree next to my garden, but I guess nature had other ideas. It is an evergreen broadleaf, so it accumulated an immense amount of ice. I would guess it is less than half the size it was last night. At least I have a woodstove, and falling trees didnt take out my hydro power, so I will just sit tight until it all melts.
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Hey, check out this oil demo. Apologies for the camera work, I didn’t think it out much in advance.
The chain oil was already thinned yesterday with naphtha. The 5W30 surprised me, goes to show the abuse cold starts can be on an engine even if well warmed by a block heater.
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Yeah I was thinking about you down there OrCarl. And a couple of my OR relatives.
A Sister down around Florence with nothing but rain. An adult niece In Gervis with same-same as you. Freezing rain IS the Worst destructive! Near tornado level for the poor trees.
Ha! Here ~30+ miles north of Portland we got the full 12" (30cm) of snow. Still snowing. Long 300+ feet to our woodshed.
Too deep to wheelbarrow now. Toss up. Bag carry the wood? Snow shovel a wheel barrow pathway?
Ah!! Pancake breakfast first. And then out to some aerobics shoveling.
No pictures. Can’t compete with those mid-continental guys.
Regards
Steve Unruh
Shovel the path would always be my choice. Trudging through a foot of snow would get old really quick.
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Yeah. You’re right.
I can slog out to the birds feeders. The satellite dish. The internet dish.
But all-walking pathways . . .
I am gettin’er done.100 feet at a time.
One last section to go for the woodshed.
And always better than roof work. Past 18" . . . . Then I must to save two of the out buildings.
But once the Wifie want to leave the real work starts. That damn frozen solid snow plow berm! After the in and out gates.
Steve unruh
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