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It's hot

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It's hot here for this time of the year.  The temperature is getting into the upper 90's with little rain.  This time of the year I give the bison a dose of the deworming medication fenbendazole mixed in molasses.  I scoop  the mixture out of the tractor's front end loader into several trays I have in the corral. Doing it in the corral is an added safety measure for me because I can block the corral gate with the tractor while I'm filling the trays in case the herd smells the molasses before I'm safety back on the tractor.  If they don't smell the molasses while I'm loading the trays, I will then drive the tractor out into the fields looking for them.  Once I find the herd I circle them once with the tractor and start driving back to the corral.  At some point in the circle they pick up the scent of the residual molasses in the front end loader and start to follow.  At first they follow slowly, but, as we get closer to the corral, they get more excited and s