Arizona Chickens

[meetthebubus]

We in AZ are definitely not used to humidity! The cloud cover this morning is letting my bubus free range longer

 

[igorsMistress]

We finally got a good rain here last night, along with thunder and lightning. Love to lay in bed and listen to the storms at night.

 

[azurbanclucker]

We got a good soaking. So much I may not need to turn the soakers on until later afternoon today because the ground is saturated. Visually though, the storm was a bit of a bust.

 

[Junochick]

We got a good soaking. So much I may not need to turn the soakers on until later afternoon today because the ground is saturated. Visually though, the storm was a bit of a bust.

I got a good soaking here in globe Arizona, it's been beautiful this am under 90. I even collected 15 gallons of rain water for my garden from my roof run off. It's going to be a humid afternoon. I did see a bunch of trees down on the news. I hope everyone escaped any storm damage.

 

[azurbanclucker]

This is what it looked like rolling through. A lot of rain fast, a LOT of cloud-to-cloud lightning, but very few cloud-to-ground strikes. I only saw one during the 30 minutes I was shooting as i watched it come in.

 

[FeatherPugs]

At my coop we only got wind and dust. BUT the wind was 50mph gusts! Humid as all get out this am. Its almost three and its only 99 on my thermometer. All is well.

 

[meetthebubus]

At my coop we only got wind and dust. BUT the wind was 50mph gusts! Humid as all get out this am. Its almost three and its only 99 on my thermometer. All is well.

Ach! 50 miles yikes! I shot a video of my girls during one of the windstorm I'll post it soon

 

[Fishybiz]

View attachment 1078977 View attachment 1078978 I have to send my old dog out to do his famous rain dance, which entails a lot of barking at the sky...otherwise we won't get any rain So with our small break with the heat wave, I decided today was the day to move the chicks out to the big coop! We are officially outside, and I have officially reclaimed the utility room!

I too have moved my 7 chicks out to the coop today and no more air conditioned luxury living.... We have reclaimed the guest bathroom for human usage again

 

[meetthebubus]

here's the video i spoke of in an above posting, i'm sure you've all seen similar and worse storms haha

 

[Fishybiz]

I wish I could train my chickens to eat ants. The black harvester ants are like a plague here. I've tried everything but the colonies are just too big. I'll bet if someone tried that melted aluminum/cement thing they'd end up digging up one huge colony 100 feet wide.

Anybody have a good solution for Ants in the chicken run? I see my chicks eat a couple but man if those things bite them like they bite me, it would drive my chicken mind crazy!!