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Originally posted by bphillips View PostI’m gonna try this out on one setup this year. Gonna try the hammer system first since we have 5 free choice 1 tons feeders. If it’s what I’m hopinh will slowly convert them all.
The reduction of nocturnal activity and increase in daylight activity is quite surprising.
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Originally posted by CB_TxNole View PostWhen do y'all start putting ricebran out?
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Originally posted by KactusKiller View PostNot sure why they don't keep more on hand. I bet I haven't been able to get any from them in a yr or more. May just be bad timing.
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Hot and dry out west! Everything is yellow including some of the cactus :mad. Amazingly the deer bodies and cattle bodies still look to be in good shape considering no measurable rainfall since 7/1. Deer are cleaning up all the feed I give them and sucked down 550 gallons of water in each of my two pens in a month......that's about double a normal summer month for me. I cranked up the protein and corn even more and refilled to help them out a bit. Maybe we will get some remnants of these hurricanes.
Sent three Rickys to their maker. Had one sucker bang the trap free from the feeder leg only to get the trap chain hung up in a cedar tree wedge in the pen he tried to run through. Unlucky bastage..
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2020 San Angelo surrounding area season thread..
We had a fire on our ranch and our neighbors today. Grape Creek, Carlsbad and Water Valley responded. We are very much in debt to them. Luckily there was only about 15ac by best estimate. We think it started by a lightening strike from last night.
I was driving in from Ft. Stockton, I worked a 24hr ER shift there last night. Before Barnhart I stopped to help a deer stuck in a fence, which I got him out. He was worn out, but no fracture or dislocation on my exam. I called the Crockett co. Game warden and he was going to check on the young deer and monitor him. This delayed me home by about 30mins. As I am coming in the back way from Mertzon to our ranch I see a huge plume of gray/white smoke or dust. I thought it was maybe the caliche pit on our ranch detonating but then I saw flame. I got within sight of the flare up exactly when it started because I had stopped to pull that deer out of the fence, thank goodness.
I sped up and drove through the pit trying to call for help and find somebody to confirm fire versus rock detonation and call the fire department. Somehow my wife and FIL had seen a small puff of smoke and he scrambled the plane. It wasn't but less than 10mins Carlsbad VFD had arrived and we started moving in.
I didn't get but an hour or two of sleep in the middle of the night during my shift, so 40hrs later, I'm getting a ranch water and a cold beer and hopefully going to bed. Pics to follow.
PS This was the second fire of the day, there was one earlier on our neighbors/cousins place on our north side. All under 20ac each with minimal spread.
And if you think I look like **** in that pic, you should see me now!
Last edited by Jmh05; 08-22-2020, 08:07 PM.
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Originally posted by Jmh05 View PostWe had a fire on our ranch and our neighbors today. Grape Creek, Carlsbad and Water Valley responded. We are very much in debt to them. Luckily there was only about 15ac by best estimate. We think it started by a lightening strike from last night.
I was driving in from Ft. Stockton, I worked a 24hr ER shift there last night. Before Barnhart I stopped to help a deer stuck in a fence, which I got him out. He was worn out, but no fracture or dislocation on my exam. I called the Crockett co. Game warden and he was going to check on the young deer and monitor him. This delayed me home by about 30mins. As I am coming in the back way from Mertzon to our ranch I see a huge plume of gray/white smoke or dust. I thought it was maybe the caliche pit on our ranch detonating but then I saw flame. I got within sight of the flare up exactly when it started because I had stopped to pull that deer out of the fence, thank goodness.
I sped up and drove through the pit trying to call for help and find somebody to confirm fire versus rock detonation and call the fire department. Somehow my wife and FIL had seen a small puff of smoke and he scrambled the plane. It wasn't but less than 10mins Carlsbad VFD had arrived and we started moving in.
I didn't get but an hour or two of sleep in the middle of the night during my shift, so 40hrs later, I'm getting a ranch water and a cold beer and hopefully going to bed. Pics to follow.
PS This was the second fire of the day, there was one earlier on our neighbors/cousins place on our north side. All under 20ac each with minimal spread.
And if you think I look like **** in that pic, you should see me now!
Sounds like a rough couple days!! Glad the fires weren’t worse.
We made it out last weekend to WV. Found a nice set of sheds now that the broom weed has died down.
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