Natural Home and Garden Solutions

yeah, we found that out the hard way! Bonita alas is no longer with us, she at a piece of banana!
Got the runnies and died. :(
We now just give tiny pieces of fruits or veggies to Beauty.
Mostly she eats the mix we bought at the store.

A hog can't burp. Anyone know how you cool a hog down when he gets to hot?

Take him off the barbeque?

Well I guess that would work Trina but it wasn't the answer I was looking for. Just wanted to see how much education you girls had. Bet Moon can't find a web site on that question. If she does she is the sharpest thing around.

well I thought hogs rolled in mud when they got hot?


But I think Trina had the best idea !!

We used a garden sprinkler. Attached it to a tree branch pointed in towards the shady part of their pen and turned it on when it was too hot for man or beast.

Arkansas, 1964

Hi Jim. This is just for you from your favorite "smart aleck"...grin

http://californiahuntingtoday.com/hogblog/2007/06/28/summer-hog-hunting-too-hot-to-hunt/

Ut OH I feel a punch line coming on------Lets hear it Jim lol

Jim ought to know how I love a challenge...married a coona** and what can be more challenging than that....grin

Well sir, you girls are right up to a point about the hogs wallow in mud and water. That keeps them "FROM" over heating. I was looking for what you do "WHEN" they are over heated. The answer is that you slowly dribble water over there snout. You have to be very careful not to get any on their head. There body temperature is so high when the get over heated that a drop or two of water on their head will literally explode their brain and kill them.

Thanks for the web site Moon, it was a good one.

By the way, a hog is not going to over heat left to it's self unless it is drunk. Good story there.

Aha...my bad Jim, I misread your question....grin

http://books.google.com/books?id=2AAxuZLb85AC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=what+do+you+do+for+an+overheated+hog&source=bl&ots=wWuWHI2ofz&sig=qjgmVUnYjhVD15FFE1F6YemkhqA&hl=en&ei=XIYWS-jlJciUtgfJpp2ABQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CD8Q6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=what%20do%20you%20do%20for%20an%20overheated%20hog&f=false

A drunk hog, now thats a picture lol Knew it was coming Jim lol

I bow before the Queen of Web Sites. Nothing is hid from this woman. Good going Moon.

Drunk Hogs:

My grandfather cooked off his on syrup as lot of people did in his day. As you cook off the syrup a foam rises to the top and you have to keep it skimmed off. Grampa decided that the hogs would probably like that stuff, no need of throwing it away if the hogs would eat it. He dumped it over in the trough and sure enough the hogs loved it. I guess there is an acoholic content to that stuff and the pigs started getting happy. They began to squeel and chase each other and were having a "high" ole time. Grampa laughed and laughed. "Bob, you ought to be ashamed of laugh at dumb brutes. The Lord won't tolerate you getting them drunk and laughin at them."
Well it was real funny for a while, but the hogs chased each other until they began to over heat. Since they were drunk, they lost their natural restraint. Inside of an hour, Grampa had a dozen dead hogs. There went the winter meat supply. Grandma just looked at him and didn't say a word. Lesson learned the hard way.

Well at least they had fun before they croaked and lots of ham on the table that year. Go Grandpa!! LOL

That's sad, Jim. Why couldn't they be butchered? You wrote "there went the winter meat supply" so I assume they couldn't be eaten, but why?

You got me on that Smiley. Probably because it was to hot to cure the meat before it spoiled. No refrigeration in those days.

Oh my bad guys, I'm gone to the corner :-(

didn't they cure 'em with salt? probably to many to do at once though. right around the corner from me now, my husband's grandfather farmed ice. had we known ya , then, Jim, we coulda sent sent some for the hog meat.

too bad, Jim. That *is* a waste.

Hi Jim. You just know how I love a challenge....grin, but must tell you it took a bunch of looking to find one single mention of how to cool them down after the fact....grin

Probably not enough time to get the smokehouse going either....what a shame.

Did you know that coke rusts metal?

Hate to think of what it is doing to stomaches...........Hmmmmmmmm

Oh, and did you know that "Usually, people do not spend more than 3 to 5 days in the hospital after hip replacement surgery".

Ok, going to the corner now :-p

See Ya there Kassy...LOL

OK Jean ^_^
Bring chocolate ^_^

ROTFLMAO....big time....grin

scoot over girls, your taking up my space!! And quit eating all the chocolate pigs. oh shouldn't have said that, more time for me lol

Yeah, Flowers, don't be so pushy....grin

bring your blocks to flowers..........LOL

get off my foot Kassy, and moon I saw you put that chocolate bar in your pocket, cough it up girl lol

sorry flowers, I was starting to dose off........................play some music to keep me awake ^_^

or we could go read feed backs..................ROTFL

How can I cough it up if it is in my pocket? you big silly...

Wake up Kassy...more facts to find....grin

I found them................ROTFL

Coke will clean your battery posts.

Not hurting my stomach I drink diet coke :)

No food in the corner give it to the good girl..that be me...

Ba-a-a-ad Kassy!

Hey this was interesting: Fear of Flowers is called anthophobia Why would anybody be scared of me lol.

In 1828 Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first US ambassador to Mexico, brought a Mexican plant with small yellow flowers surrounded by larger red and green leaves to the US. The plant, called "flower of the blessed night" (because it resembled the Star of Bethlehem), was renamed in honor of Poinsett and quickly became a popular decoration for Christmas. If eaten, the leaves and stems of the poinsettia can cause abdominal cramps. So Kassy don't munch on it!

ok you girls are having WAY too much fun, move over & share the chocolate.

Put a cube of meat in a class and cover it with coke. It will eat the meat. That is why it is a great tenderizer, just don't leave it to long.

One for Moon, pout coke over love bugs on your bumper let set for a couple of minutes and then rinse with the hose. Bye, bye love bugs.

If you get caught in a rain and your wipers go out, pull out your plug of chewing tobacco and wipe your windshield down with it. It will shed the rain so you can make it to a service center. Drove from Shreveport home one night doing that. Only thing I found open as country store. No wiper motor but plenty of chaws.

Kassy, can I stand by you if I put my hands in my pockets? I feel a hot wind blowing!!!!

Come on Lynnie and Jim, join us but I warn you Moon is stingy with the chocolate. Oh and wear deoderant its getting crowded.

Was in a restaraunt one day having lunch with Jo. We were talking about poinsettis. Course we were pronouncing it "red neck" style, Pon-set-ehs, a lady from the next table leaned over and said in a very proper voice, "It is not Pon-set-ehs, it is Poin-set-tee-ahs." I looked at her real serious and in my best nasal red neck voice I said,"thanke maam, we'uns didn't rightly know how ter say that there big word."

Which reminds me flowers, and orsh tater rubbed under the arm pit is an effective deodorant.