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Neighbor from Bowie where my land is says his outdoor thermometer hit 110.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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Some of my crawfish begged me to take them to a boil so they could cool off.
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Neighbor from Bowie where my land is says his outdoor thermometer hit 110. Gee Dave it only got to 104 today here…. Ugh
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Pat, could you please send some of those cool temps North?
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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How bout 108? We have that also
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108° sounds refreshing...
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Hey Augie is that temp in a smoker?
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My surface water temps are reading 98!!
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My surface water temps are reading 98!! Wow, Really???
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That was in my greenhouse one day last week.
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We drove from Tulsa to East Texas on Saturday morning. The sale barn at Emory was packed; cattle trailers were streching 1/2 mile down the highway in both directions. Poor ranchers are feeling the drought...
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Sad thing is that the trees are dying, some well over a hundred years old . No rain till late October or later unless that darn high parked moves away…..deer drinking out of bird bath at night. We feed protein and corn year round in free choice feeders and they polish 300# in two days
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I have a spring fed creek that has stopped running and is drying up. Hope some fish survive.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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What are ya'lls surface water temps reading? With a floating pool thermometer, I dropped it down one foot and am getting 98 degrees during the heat of the day around 4pm. But...I have 8 inch to 3 pound largemouth bass coming to the banks in the evening eating floating fish food. these were NOT original stockers that were feed trained when I got them.! Those fish would be 5 years old by now. So they WILL teach themselves to be feed trained!!!
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We drove from Tulsa to East Texas on Saturday morning. The sale barn at Emory was packed; cattle trailers were streching 1/2 mile down the highway in both directions. Poor ranchers are feeling the drought... There were over 3,000 cows up for that auction, and only 1/3 were sold. No rain+very expensive hay=dump cattle. Talked to a neighbor last week, and right now it's taking 7 acres per cow. Pat, I've had to put out plastic tubs full of water for the deer. They were emptying the birdbaths every night.
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I'm surprised the deer aren't making paths to the pond to drink from it.
Water temp here is between 87 and 84 depending if you are in the lower part of the state or the upper part of the state.
It took 2 hours last week to acclimate (temper) the water in the haul tanks before I could stock fish in the ponds.
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I walked a little stretch of our (still flowing) creek. I saw four spots where the deer are coming down the bank to drink.
The sand on the shorelines is absolutely covered with raccoon tracks. I have no idea what they are eating, but it appears they are catching something tasty with the water level down.
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It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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110 heat index here right now
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111 with 117 heat index. What little motivation I had this morning is gone. I'm surprised the deer aren't making paths to the pond to drink from it... Most of the deer do. The one's that are hiding fawns tend to not roam much, and they stay closer to the house.
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Anybody in central and north Texas need to feed the deer, they are in a bad way now and need our help or we will lose a lot of them. Our free demand feeders are getting hammered like never before. 300# last less than two days
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Anybody in central and north Texas need to feed the deer, they are in a bad way now and need our help or we will lose a lot of them. Our free demand feeders are getting hammered like never before. 300# last less than two days Pat, What is the correct/optimal feed for the deer in July/August? I can see them browsing on the new growth on our small volunteer trees (mostly Siberian Elms). I am currently visiting the farm a lot to water my newly planted trees. Might as well help the deer while I am out there!
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We use a16% protein deer feed in our free choice feeders and corn in our timed sling feeders. The corn is good for lactation of does plus they like it
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Pat, how much of that feed is going to fatten up the 'coons? I have a bad coon problem here, a neighbor "loves" them and has critter control drop off any that they catch. Between another neighbor and myself we trap and feed maybe 40'/year to the buzzards. I have trail cam video of them keeping the deer away from the food.
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We get a lot of coons….. a lot…. Sometimes you will see 7-15 at a time at four locations at the same time. They don’t hinder the deer much, hogs were a bigger threat so we made pens around drop feeders and let the pigs go to sling feeders. Corn is $11 for fiftylbs and protein is $15 a bag now. Very costly. Know anyone who wants coons?
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