high heat = dead critters

[jigs]

this weather has taken a toll on us . we lost a couple cows, but the feed lots are getting hammered. one neighbot buried 310 fats, and think half that many will give up in a day or two. another local lot has buried 450, and they are scrambling to keep the rest gong.

heat index is supposed to reach 115 today nd no wind !

winter is looking GOOD right about now

 

[High Plains]

Boy, that's tough Jigs. Sorry about your cows.

Wonder why those feedlots in your area continue to put any appreciable number of cattle on feed to get fat in July/August? Seems like it gets hot and humid every single year down there. Even if it's not real bad like it is today, the feed efficiency and performance just goes in the tank this time of year in your country for those heavy cattle. Believe I'd have the pens cleaned out of any fats and maybe have some lighter cattle on feed to target for fall months. July/August is not an appealing market anyway, might as well just avoid the whole situation. There again, I'm not in their boots, so I digress...

Hope it cools off for you and it gets liveable again.

HP

 

[Nicky]

Boy that is a bummer! Hope it cools off for you.

 

[Faster horses]

Sorry to hear that, jigs. I feel so bad for the cattle; and the folks
who own them.

The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over
expecting a different result.

 

[WyomingRancher]

That's awful . And here I thought 77 degrees was feeling toasty today. Hope you cool off soon!

 

[Anonymous]

That's awful . And here I thought 77 degrees was feeling toasty today. Hope you cool off soon!

We're at 92 right now during the noon hour- on our way to a hot, dry, breezy, 99 forecast...

Only hope is it brings in some thunderstorms and rain....

 

[jigs]

we always get hot, but this week of high humidity is rare.

one neighbor owned all the cattle in his lot. over $325,000 in a trench, and possibly more to come!

looks like Saturday we will get a break from the heat...

it has been hell laying irrigation pipe this week, this fat old fart almost blew a fuse!

 

[WyomingRancher]

That's awful . And here I thought 77 degrees was feeling toasty today. Hope you cool off soon!

We're at 92 right now during the noon hour- on our way to a hot, dry, breezy, 99 forecast...

Only hope is it brings in some thunderstorms and rain....

:shock: Living at 8,000 feet does have some advantages, just wish I had more oxygen up here to go with the cooler temps :lol: . Hope you all cool down soon, if not, come on up for a visit .

Geez, if it isn't blizzards killing things, it's the heat :roll: . Hope the losses slow up soon.

 

[Mrs.Greg]

+36 here today Just what we need more heat to dry the REST of the crops and haylands to completely die.}


Sad whats going on in your area Jigs....crazy year for us all it looks like.....darn Global warming.... :wink:

 

[Faster horses]

Sorry Mrs. G; global warming is BS with a capital B and S.

 

[Mrs.Greg]

Sorry Mrs. G; global warming is BS with a capital B and S.

It was a joke....


But the drought we're having is NO joke!!

 

[Faster horses]

I thought it was a joke , and no, droughts are NOT FUNNY!!!
We have a drought here every other year--the odd years are
better than the even years. We were told that and that's exactly
the way it has been since we moved here in 1993.

1993????? Wow, 16 years ago!!!!!!!!

 

[andybob]

If this is an annual event, would it not be better to source cattle with a percentage of heat resistant breed that can cope with the heat, without compromising weight gains and feed conversion?

 

[gcreekrch]

Sorry to hear about your cows Jigs, you could send them up here for the summer and they could freeze to death.

 

[Whitetop]

If these lots have preassure water systems they can string some small water lines on the ground outside the pens or on the fences up high so the cattle can't chew on them and then hook up a small sprayer tip about 15 feet in the air and about 15 feet apart,(three or four tips will take care of 200 head). All you need is a fine mist and any wind at all will carry it a long way into the pen. I have done this several different years, it does't take much water. I would turn them on about noon and shut them off in the evening. The cattle would stand under the mist about an hour and then head to the bunks then others would take their place in the mist. I know it saved many dead cattle for me plus they didn't go off feed on the hot days.

 

[jigs]

My neighbor admited that about 80% of the dead ones were black.....one more reason to run Herefords!

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

My neighbor admited that about 80% of the dead ones were black.....one more reason to run Herefords!

Probably 98% of the cattle in the feedlot were black. :lol:

 

[Denny]

My neighbor admited that about 80% of the dead ones were black.....one more reason to run Herefords!

The herefords would be on grass yet trying to get big enough to go to the feedlot :wink:

 

[Faster horses]

Vigortone now has a product they call I.C.E. (internal cooling elements).
It reduces heat stress in ruminents.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Here ya go........this is the view out my kitchen window in the shade....about 3 pm today. I think it got even hotter later on.