HEAT WAVE

[Herefordcross]

THey say that western heat wave is setting in on us Tuesday through Thursday. Here I thought it was already here. I guess I'll bring the girls in close and turn on some sprinklers, neighbor lost two last week more than likely because of the heat. Many of you may laugh about the sprinklers but, I don't know what else to do, these cattle aren't used to 100 degree plus weather for days on end. Wish I could find a tempature/humidity calcualtor to figure out actual felt temperature at our place. My uncle says we are in the dog days, never did quite understand what the old timers meant about that.

 

[Alice]

At the sale barn Friday, sprinklers and misters were running wide open. Can't imagine why anyone would laugh at anyone utilizing this.

Alice

 

[milesvb]

My uncle says we are in the dog days, never did quite understand what the old timers meant about that.

It think it goes back to Roman times. It's usually the hottest time of the year when the star Sirius "The Dog Star" rises in the morning, or something like that.

 

[msscamp]

Many of you may laugh about the sprinklers but, I don't know what else to do, these cattle aren't used to 100 degree plus weather for days on end.

I would be the last one to laugh at sprinklers, but I am a little bit concerned that sprinklers won't be enough to counteract the heat because the feedlots up here use the big end-gun looking things that shoot water for several hundred (if not thousand - I'm not really sure which) feet.


My uncle says we are in the dog days, never did quite understand what the old timers meant about that.

Up here, the dog days of summer refer to the hottest time of year - usually late July and August.

 

[Jogeephus]

Here, the dog days are the hottest too. But in the dog days you usually can count on isolated Tstorms every so many days - I forget the specifics.

We have been in a bad drought. An ol timer said things would get better in Dog Days because of this. He was on the money.

 

[Herefordcross]

No rain here! for a few weeks, 112 here today! Cattle are dropping like flies around here, we have been running sprinklers all day to keep ours cooled off, low last night was 87 degrees.

 

[KenB]

No rain here! for a few weeks, 112 here today! Cattle are dropping like flies around here, we have been running sprinklers all day to keep ours cooled off, low last night was 87 degrees.

;-) Now maybe people will see why a little bit of ear in their cows is a good idea.

 

[Herefordcross]

Try coming to WV and finding long ears, I've tried and there's just not enough knowledgable people close by to get a good education on the proper lines to start mixing in, we haven't lost any due to the heat, thankfully, but, my neighbors have. You know the ones that say "They'll get in the shade and then eat at night" Two different neighbors called today wantin' me to run the backhoe over to bury a couple, my hoe is on a job about 45 min. away from here and I'm not running it back with the cost of fuel to bury a couple of cows. They just 'll have to learn that the $50 they pay to have 'em picked up isn't that bad. Their to used to me burying 'em for free because I feel bad for 'em when their 22 year old cow dies when it should have been culled ten years earlier.

 

[rkm]

Finally got that hay weather!

 

[longhorn314]

I'm wishing for those pop-up thunderstorms that come with the dog days of summer so maybe we can at least get a quick shower cause I ain't seen one in my area in quite a while.

 

[msscamp]

No rain here! for a few weeks, 112 here today! Cattle are dropping like flies around here, we have been running sprinklers all day to keep ours cooled off, low last night was 87 degrees.

;-) Now maybe people will see why a little bit of ear in their cows is a good idea.

While a 'little bit of ear' could withstand our summers better, they would have one bitch of a time with our winters. I guess we're supposed to change breeds twice a year? :roll: :roll:

 

[Herefordcross]

You solved it Mssscmp we can switch cattle back and forth twice a year, you take the ears in the summer and I'll take 'em in the winter and you can take the black ones for the winter, teach 'em how to build snowmen and stuff.

 

[Bucky]

From Old Farmers Almanac: (http://www.almanac.com)

The phrase “Dog Days” refers to the hottest days of summer. The Old Farmer’s Almanac lists the traditional timing of the Dog Days: the 40 days beginning July 3 and ending August 11, coinciding with the heliacal (at sunrise) rising of the Dog Star, Sirius. The rising of Sirius does not actually affect the weather (some of our hottest and most humid days occur after August 11), but for the ancient Egyptians, Sirius appeared just before the season of the Nile’s flooding, so they used the star as a “watchdog” for that event. Since its rising also coincided with a time of extreme heat, the connection with hot, sultry weather was made for all time.

 

[Proverbs 12:10]

No rain here! for a few weeks, 112 here today! Cattle are dropping like flies around here, we have been running sprinklers all day to keep ours cooled off, low last night was 87 degrees.

;-) Now maybe people will see why a little bit of ear in their cows is a good idea.

104 here today. My brahman cows had shade but were too busy grazing to notice the heat. So I guess they are not all bad after all.

 

[msscamp]

You solved it Mssscmp we can switch cattle back and forth twice a year, you take the ears in the summer and I'll take 'em in the winter and you can take the black ones for the winter, teach 'em how to build snowmen and stuff.

You know, you might be onto something here! ;-) :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Herefordcross]

Yep, the WestVirginiaWyomingCattleCompany. That would make on heck of a brand. We could patent our own steaks and all.

 

[dun]

Yep, the WestVirginiaWyomingCattleCompany. That would make on heck of a brand. We could patent our own steaks and all.

Like the joke that was posted a week or so back, you'ld be cooking the steaks when you branded

dun

 

[Caustic Burno]

What heat wave normal summer temps here 100+.
Had a cold front last week dropped temps to 95.

 

[Herefordcross]

Don't know where your at CB but, 100++ is very odd for us here and the added humidity yesterdy was according to the radio 112 degrees that is very odd for us. It's only about 82 here now but, the humidity is still around and the grass is getting browner by the minute! Calling fo rsome T storms hopefully they come sooner than later. The millett has been eaten up and we're feeding hay and have 'em penned up now so hopefully we'll get some shower the next couple of months and it'll let us feed later in the year to make up for the hay we're feeding now. A guy gave me a field to cut and I was gonna sell the hay I'm glad I didn't now. I can only get a taste of what you guys have seen in your lifetimes.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Don't know where your at CB but, 100++ is very odd for us here and the added humidity yesterdy was according to the radio 112 degrees that is very odd for us. It's only about 82 here now but, the humidity is still around and the grass is getting browner by the minute! Calling fo rsome T storms hopefully they come sooner than later. The millett has been eaten up and we're feeding hay and have 'em penned up now so hopefully we'll get some shower the next couple of months and it'll let us feed later in the year to make up for the hay we're feeding now. A guy gave me a field to cut and I was gonna sell the hay I'm glad I didn't now. I can only get a taste of what you guys have seen in your lifetimes.

East Texas is where I am located 100+ temps this time of year are norm with 90% plus humidity.
Now ya'll might see why that little bit of ear is useful.
Its 103 right now and I am heading for the hayfield to cut it.