Guardsmen ‘bale out’ starving livestock

US - Air National Guardsmen from Colorado and Wyoming will be flying over southeastern Colorado Wednesday, airdropping hay to horses and cattle that are stranded — and possibly starving — since the state was hammered by a pair of snowstorms.
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“Because of the back-to-back blizzards here in Colorado, a lot of farmers have 4 to 5 feet of snow down there,” said 2nd Lt. Edgar Acosta, a spokesman for the 140th Wing of the Colorado Air National Guard, based at Buckley Air Force Base. “The animals haven’t eaten since, I think, last Thursday … We’re trying to provide some relief to them and airdrop some hay and get the animals fed.”

The Colorado airmen will be flying in a C-130 deploying to Pueblo Memorial Airport — the chosen staging area for the mission — from the 153rd Airlift Wing, a Guard unit from Cheyenne, Wyo., Acosta said.

Colorado Army National Guard soldiers also have been engaged in the “haylift” operation, kicking bale after bale from the back of helicopters.

Source; AirForceTimes.com

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