Texas Heat!

[Western]

Not filling feeders up this year(corn prices to high)going to put in bigger food plots and keep feeding them little alfalfa every now and then(alfalfa #60lbs bales $8.00).

I just started with baled Alfalfa, only been out about 2 weeks. No interest so far, but they will eat the pellets mixed with corn off of the hay. I got the 16% protein pellets because I was worried if their water intake would handle a higher %.

I have had excellent results while living in Erath county, growing the Dryland (Ladak) Alfalfa, deer took to it quick and kept it mowed down.

Don't know if this photo will show, girls came in about 8:30. Did notice one doe had a good "used" udder, so hopefully there is some youngsters running around. Don't know why the photo came out so dark, may have to get a lesson from my daughter.

 

[NativeSon]

Yeah, Deer season this year doesn't look good. Dogs drug up what was left of a carcass yesterday. Looked like it was road kill. The one's I've seen don't look too good.
Dennis-- The creeks are drying up so like you, I think I'll put a water tank down in the woods for them. I don't hunt them any but the wife & I love to watch them. But for hunters a water trough maybe better than a feeder.

Charlie

 

[jinman]

I have a deal with the deer. I water my yard and keep it green and they handle the fertilizer for me.:laughing: There are deer pill piles all over my lawn. They are especially fond of nice green St. Augustine, but the Bermuda gets its share of fertilizer too.:thumbsup:

 

[foreman Etexas]

I just started with baled Alfalfa, only been out about 2 weeks. No interest so far, but they will eat the pellets mixed with corn off of the hay. I got the 16% protein pellets because I was worried if their water intake would handle a higher %.

I have had excellent results while living in Erath county, growing the Dryland (Ladak) Alfalfa, deer took to it quick and kept it mowed down.

Don't know if this photo will show, girls came in about 8:30. Did notice one doe had a good "used" udder, so hopefully there is some youngsters running around. Don't know why the photo came out so dark, may have to get a lesson from my daughter.

Hey I got my game camera out finally and got some pictures,feeding alfalfa I will get them on here soon

 

[Bird]

Me and 3 of my neighbors on same well

Hmm, I've got a cousin in Freestone County with that same kind of deal. Maybe you're neighbors. Personally, I don't think I'd like that any better than Homeowners Associations.

Well, I just got an e-mail from my cousin and there were 10 families on the one well, and the pump died. In trying to get the pump out, the repairmen broke the casing and ruined the well. So my cousin had his own well drilled on his own property, says it's much better water, too.

 

[Western]

Yeah, Deer season this year doesn't look good. Dogs drug up what was left of a carcass yesterday. Looked like it was road kill. The one's I've seen don't look too good.
Dennis-- The creeks are drying up so like you, I think I'll put a water tank down in the woods for them. I don't hunt them any but the wife & I love to watch them. But for hunters a water trough maybe better than a feeder.Charlie

We like watching them too, haven't shot one in a couple of years on my place.

I have a deal with the deer. I water my yard and keep it green and they handle the fertilizer for me.:laughing: There are deer pill piles all over my lawn. They are especially fond of nice green St. Augustine, but the Bermuda gets its share of fertilizer too.:thumbsup:

That say's allot , Deer usually don't prefer "grass", but when they are hungry, even the leather in a Studebaker looks good!

Well, I just got an e-mail from my cousin and there were 10 families on the one well, and the pump died. In trying to get the pump out, the repairmen broke the casing and ruined the well. So my cousin had his own well drilled on his own property, says it's much better water, too.

I wonder why that is Bird? Is it a deeper well?. The old one must have been shallow.

 

[Western]

Only supposed to be 99! YEAH!!! cold weather..

Got these photos of a couple that came to get water

without the "chaperon"

 

[pacerron]

Thought I'd butt into your rural living discussion today with a few pictures taken this morning. Your heat is moving across the food belt and we are suppossed to be 97 degrees today with 90% humidity feels like 107. The wife is making yellow summer squash sweet relish so that gives me an excuse to play on the pc.
01 is a mother and twins that roam all over the place. There is an orphan that is usually near them.
02 shows that the twins have no fear of the horses nor do the horses fear them... unless you happen to be on the saddle in the woods and a deer lets out a snort. That's a different story.
03 shows a couple of our 20-30 hummers next to me on the porch where I was taking the deer picture. We have so many it is impossible to count them.
They have no fear either.
04 shows their competition for the sugar water in the oriole feeder. The bees get kind of nasty and overly greedy as summer progresses so a pair of tweezers is kept handy on the porch to pull them out of the feeder holes.
05 is taken at a 50mm lens zoom setting to show the normal distance from the deck to the orchard and garden beyond that I spoke of the other day as being quite a menu for the deer.
06 shows how much pond evaporation we have had so far. I put a red square over where our overflow pipe level is located.
07 I thought this was the blue heron that eats our frogs and fish but the wife reported it was a young hawk when she came back from the barn.

I thought Jinman had the no trespassing signs up to keep the deer out but I see the deer can't read any better down there than up here! We have deer pellets everywhere too and circles pressed down in the grass where they lay at night. I think they watch TV through the windows...
Stay cool.. Best thing for that is a long afternoon nap!
Ron

 

[Car Doc]

Beautiful hide out Ron looks like a very nice well kept place! :thumbsup: btw are those bat boxes hanging on the pole?

 

[Western]

Nice place you have, Allot more manicured than mine! Nothing like living in the country:thumbsup: where ever you live.

If your up North, or in the N. East, you have a much higher heat index than us. Last night on the news, they said it was because of the heavy rains dumping so much moisture up there.