This heat is too ridiculous...

[NorthTexaschick]

Send it down here to Texas Prairiehen!

 

[SanctusPullus]

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It averages about 90% humidity for the summer here in Austin...

 

[char259]

We are at 97 with a humidity of 60%. And a heat index of 111. It's only 11:30 a.m.

 

[Dunkopf]

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That's the word. Selling their herds means they have to sell their breeding stock too. So when things come back down they have to start from scratch again. If you have the ability to do it get a bottle calf or something. Prices have already skyrocketed for Angus calfs.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

It's smokin' here today. From our local weather

"Last Updated: 12:38 PM 07/13/11 - Combined with the heat and humidity, the "feels like" temperatures have climbed past 110° in some places. At Onslow Beach the heat index was 114, in Beaufort 112, Havelock felt like 110, while in New Bern the heat index was 108 degrees at noon."

Yahooooooooooo for the heat of summer.......... not

Steve

 

[maclady]

My girls are roasting. They hate, I mean HATE, getting wet. You would think water was acid the way they act. I have pans of water for them to walk through, a mister running, frozen bottles in their area that they like to lay down in, total shade cover on their run and have given them cold treats from the refrigerator. I still feel like I am not doing enough to keep them cool. They are panting so bad. It is currently 95 and feels like 102. Yesterday was even worse and no where near what some other places like Austin, TX are dealing with. Hubby has been trying to talk me into moving back to Michigan when he retires from the Army and I am starting to cave somewhat. I mowed grass yesterday morning and by 0940 was soaked with sweat and wishing for water to jump in. Cold water of the Great Lakes was starting to sound really good to me right then. To everyone suffering with this heat... I hope you all are able to find ways to keep yourselves cool as well as your animals.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[maclady]

Unfortunately my yard does not have any real shade. I put the coop/run into the shaded area next to a garden shed and then have a shade cover over it. I read somewhere online that someone in Johnson county lost all their bird (poultry farmer) when power went out to their barns yesterday. It makes you wonder what it is going to be like in August when it really heats up.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[dewey]

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That's the word. Selling their herds means they have to sell their breeding stock too. So when things come back down they have to start from scratch again. If you have the ability to do it get a bottle calf or something. Prices have already skyrocketed for Angus calfs.

Most of the effects are expected to be felt in a couple of years, since many of those that sell off their stock (not just move them to another state for raising) during this time never start back up. Coupled with drought and fires causing some ranchers to have to buy hay, helping to drive up hay prices, many had switched crops from hay to cotton production...so land that normally could have take up much of the hay slack right now is in use for other crops...which have also been effected. Can't win for losing sometimes. In 2009 AZ was declared a distaster area due to drought...irrigated crops are still fine...ranchers depending on rain alone for crops are hard hit.

10:30am this morning it was 104 and climbing...so we'll probably see 107+? today, and hotter by the weekend. I don't know how folks do the high temps without coolers of some sort.