Oppressive heat.....

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Flintknapper

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Just finished taking the ambient temperature outside. (note.. burned up pasture in background)

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According to the following:

“USDA Lowers Pork's Minimum Cooking Temperature To 145 °F”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/24/pork-cooking-temperature-usda-145-degrees_n_866066.html


If I were to kill a hog right now, all I would have to do is raise the temperature of the meat another 35° F for it to be safe to eat!

Heck, I could do that by just placing it inside my truck for a while.

Maybe just come back in the morning and have a meal. ;)

Or if I didn’t want to wait that long, the pavement here is at least 170° today.

I could cook the hog (whole) on my sidewalk….or just save myself the trouble altogether and go find a road-kill. :D


Sheeeeesh! Is it this hot everywhere? It has got to be affecting the animals.
 
Finally cooled down to about 95 in Missouri. Ive seen multiple squirrels laying with their arms and legs outstretched and eyes closed in crotches of trees to stay cool.

HB
 
It was hotter in FtSmith AR yesterday than it was in the Mohave desert.

(117 degrees)

This from around 2 pm, it only dropped 3 degrees driving around our exact location

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It was 107 here in Austin today. Gonna go out and fill the feeder on Saturday and do a little hog hunting first. Probably not going to see anything, the tank has been dry since April. I am afraid to do any shredding or chainsaw work, I could burn down the whole county before I turn around. Good luck to all the southern summer hunters, like Flintknapper said might as well kill the hog and set it out on the road, wait 20 minutes and dig in. God we need a hurricane.

Dave
 
^^^^^Yeah never thought I'd beg for a hurricane (not since RITA and IKE both came up through D.E.T), but I'd take one right now.

Most of our hogs have moved down to the river bottom, but they'll be back once things cool down.

I would expect to find hogs in concentrated areas right now.
 
I'll check the creek bottom even then I bet they have moved on..... might just quit until October/ November.

Dave
 
Well, the heat has forced the hogs off my buddies property for now. The creek dried up awhile ago, only leaves the ponds, which wont last much longer. Between the ponds being the only water hole on a 1,000+ acres and the cows producing quite a few calves, wondering if the coyotes will be a problem. Although, I'm wondering if the hogs come back, I may be able to set up a stand and have easy access to them.

I know the temps are high and the rain is scarce, but I seem to remember times worse than this (1996? Or 2006?). What happened then as far as wildlife and such?

-Eric
 
Flintknapper,

Sorry to see your pasture in such bad shape. Let me know if you need contact info for hay sources around here. Hay prices in my area are up a little due to S GA's drought, but probably nothing like they are in your area. Pray for rain.
 
Oak trees?

I heard a report of a die-off of oak trees because of the drought in west Texas. Can anyone confirm that?
That would be some really bad news for several different species.
 
Not sure if it was alarmist news or not, but it was just reported that our drought may last several months, if not longer. Has the makings to be the worst since 1950.

So the question is: if the drought is this bad, and is taking toll on wildlife, could this help us erradicate hogs? Just a thought.

-Eric
 
Just got back from looking at my neighbors "stock tank" (pond), it has about 1 foot of water left in it and is about to become a mud hole. Apparently, the oxygen level became so depleted that all of the fish in it died.

There are dead fish lining the muddy banks on every side, it stinks to high heaven and you can see where buzzards and hogs have been walking out to the waters edge to get to the fish carcasses.

Oddly, I saw no evidence of hogs wallowing around the tank...or going out far enough to get water, just looks like they are grabbing a fish and heading back off into the brush with it.
 
Our hottest summer since 1874 here. Extremely dry. My duck swamp is dry enought to drive a semi through it and not get the tires muddy. Record number of days over 100f too.

t2e
 
I have three game cams out and am only getting deer pictures at night or early morning, and I haven't seen but a couple of hog tracks in the creek bed in the last couple of months.

The pond on my lease place is dry, and I have been hauling water to my cows for about 4 months.
 
Upper 90's with the heat index in the 105 range plus the lovely summer humidity. Done shooting by 10:30 this morning and everything was soaked through with sweat. IF the PM rains come, it will cool it down to the low 80's...................come on DECEMBER
 
It's been cool up on the west coast of Canada this summer but it's finally starting to come around to normal summer time temps... (82 - 85 Fahrenheit or 28- 30 Celsius for us metric northerners!)

I guess since we are starting to get some normal temps you guys down south might get some relief soon!
 
The Comment about la nina was correct. El Nino made last year relatively mild, with almost no hurricanes, and then his little sister causes our current (ABYSMAL) heat and all of the tornadoes that plagued us a few months ago. I haven't seen tornadoes like that since... I've never seen tornadic activity like that.
 
NEVER thought I would say it, but I don't EVEN feel like shooting a hog right now.

I admit, week before last we put in 4 days on the farm and several morning just before the blue light hit the horizon I headed down to the bottom spring and pond to see if I could catch one crossing with my 454.

I would say however that out the time we were there however, I bet me and the grandkids only spent about 10 - 12 hours in all outside. The rest was sitting in front of that 2 ton window unit watching cartoons and such.

Good thing is that our springs were still flowing enough to keep the ponds up with the demands from the cows. How much longer they will continue to do so, however is anyones guess.
 
Sorry to see your pasture in such bad shape. Let me know if you need contact info for hay sources around here. Hay prices in my area are up a little due to S GA's drought, but probably nothing like they are in your area. Pray for rain.
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I bought hay day before yest.. 10.00 a square bale 110.00 for a round bale (horse). quality was not great!!

My pond has been dry for about a month, neighbor ponds and the stream that runs behind our property dry..

Havent seen much wildlife of any kind lately. Course I have nothing left for them come and eat drink, etc.
 
My old age has it that this is nowhere near a drouth; it's just a bad dry spell. My family got burned out early on in the drouth of the fifties. It quit raining in late 1947, and by mid 1949 we were broke. 300 acres outside of Austin, and we dropped down to only ten head of cows--and were having to feed them. Regular rainfall didn't come back until 1957.

The 1952 and 1954 hurricane storms produced record rainfalls and floods, but were merely short-term relief.

Two ranchers were talking, naturally about the weather and wishing for rain. One of them pointed over at his son who was helping with the evening chores: "Yeah, I'd like to see some rain. Not so much for me as for my boy. I've seen rain."
 
Art Eatman said:
Two ranchers were talking, naturally about the weather and wishing for rain. One of them pointed over at his son who was helping with the evening chores: "Yeah, I'd like to see some rain. Not so much for me as for my boy. I've seen rain."
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Didn't realze how bad you folks had it down there till a friend of mine in San Marcos said they were prayin' for hurricane season. Hope you folks get some soon. Rain, that is, not hurricanes.
 
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