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Brrrrrrrrrr Chores are the same – it’s just colder. Winter weather, including snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures go with the territory for farmers in Eastern Iowa BY NANCY MAYFIELD EASTERN IOWA FARMER On a bitter-cold, late afternoon last winter, as dusk crept over rural Louisa County, brothers Remsen Lents, 8, and Boyden Lents, 7, bundled up and headed out to the barn to tend to two of the 32 lambs born on their farm weeks earlier. It was a routine they repeated daily, no matter the weather. “We have two bottle lambs this year,” said Adair Lents, their mother. That means regular feedings – even in a blizzard. After hearing the mid-January forecast for the upcoming week that included an expected -20 degree wind chill, she and her husband talked about whether they should have the boys continue the chores once the arctic blast hit. “We decided to have them do it. We told them, ‘The animals have to eat. The animals rely on us,” she said, adding that when she was growing up, her dad held to the rule that “the animals eat before us.” In Eastern Iowa, biting wind chills, sub-zero temperatures, snowstorms and ice are faced each EASTERN IOWA FARMER PHOTO / CONTRIBUTED Kara Paul takes a break from work to visit with a calf. She and her two sisters spend the winter tending to their 4-H projects, raising lambs and calves.
! Remsen Lents, 8, heads out to the family’s barn in rural Louisa County to bottle feed two lambs born last winter. He and his brother, Boyden Lents, 7, braved the cold for the regular feedings. Pictured below are the 32 lambs that the farm produced this year during some bitter cold days. EASTERN IOWA FARMER PHOTO / CONTRIBUTED
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