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We have had virtually no rain yet. Just a few light storms, but no more than 1/4". I finally moved the last of my birds outside yesterday---17 turkey poults, most are a month old but they are very frightened at being outside and won't leave the back wall of the pen. It is a relief to have no more chicks or poults inside in brooders to care for. This has been a crazy year for hatching for me as I try to raise up a bunch of chicks of each breed just to pick a few to work with for breeding. We really need a live in caretaker to help out so we can take a vacation, but have not been able to find the right person since our last caretaker left last fall.
 
We are having one heck of a gullywasher. A few minutes before the storm rolled in I tried to get the pullets back in the coop. They would have none of it. So I went back inside and the rain started, gentle at first, and the girls were wandering around the yard.. then it rained a bit harder and they were huddled under a creosote bush... now it is flooding some of the yard and I can see them bunched together standing really upright, still under the creosote bush. At least they're in one of the higher parts of the yard. They don't look real happy but hey, they can't say I didn't try to warn them. The outside birds manage to survive this stuff so I am sure the chickens will be fine. Maybe next time they will listen to me. In the meantime they are getting very, very clean. Maybe I should toss them a bar of soap?

Edited to add: It has dropped over 2" of rain in less than an hour. It is still raining. I managed to get six wet pullets back in the coop. Two are still having none of that inside stuff. OK by me. They can figure out how to swim across the moat that has formed outside their pop door when they finally decide they want to be inside.
 
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Same here. Maricopa has just been jipped in that respect. Downpours in Phoenix when we've been in town and we get back to Maricopa and the most we got was some lightning and a couple of drops. I want the rain!

Also I held my first bug games today with my chickens to test them. I was planning on video taping what happened because I figured it would probably be amusing. It was.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/806675/the-bug-games

Not chicken related, but I did get some funny video of two of our cats this morning: (Rook is the fluffy Rag Doll with "war paint" markings, and Khyber is the bigger striped one)

Also saw R.E.D. 2 today. I liked it. I will own it. I loved the first one (one of my favorite movies), and the second one didn't disappoint.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend. :D
 
MagicChicken said:
We are having one heck of a gullywasher. A few minutes before the storm rolled in I tried to get the pullets back in the coop. They would have none of it. So I went back inside and the rain started, gentle at first, and the girls were wandering around the yard.. then it rained a bit harder and they were huddled under a creosote bush... now it is flooding some of the yard and I can see them bunched together standing really upright, still under the creosote bush. At least they're in one of the higher parts of the yard. They don't look real happy but hey, they can't say I didn't try to warn them. The outside birds manage to survive this stuff so I am sure the chickens will be fine. Maybe next time they will listen to me. In the meantime they are getting very, very clean. Maybe I should toss them a bar of soap?

Edited to add: It has dropped over 2" of rain in less than an hour. It is still raining. I managed to get six wet pullets back in the coop. Two are still having none of that inside stuff. OK by me. They can figure out how to swim across the moat that has formed outside their pop door when they finally decide they want to be inside.
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Sarah, can't you send some of that my way? The rain started, then left again!! I am not looking forward to soggy pens, but we so need the rain over here.
 
City farm said:
DeAnna our French black copper Maran is doing great.. Twinklin thank you for your advice
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you're very welcome. I'm so glad to know she's doing better. My Eleanor's crop stretched out when she was having issues and I was so afraid it wouldn't go back and that she'd always have a pendulous, troublesome crop but it looked great today (about a week after her issue was at it's worse). I hope keeping up with the ACV and yogurt/kefir will keep them clear of any more issues.
 
We're in high fig season here! For the past couple weeks we'd been doing a pretty good job of keeping up with eating every ripe fig, but a couple days ago they started ripening in earnest. I picked 8lbs and started dehydrating them. We've gotten 2+lbs each day since and both dehydrators are working hard with this new moisture in the air. With any luck, we'll continue getting figs up through the first frost. Fresh figs, truly one of the great gifts in life.

Anybody else harvesting anything?




 

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