Arizona Chickens

[Parront]

I guess that you got or will be getting some rain now, then.

We are getting rain now, for a fact! We are on flood patrol.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

I've been listening to the music over here in this thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/60s-favorites.1480760/

I have music here. The two that hatched yesterday ar peeping back and forth to the egg that is pipped and unzipping. It would probably go easier if the chick wasn't trying to hatch out from the bottom of the egg. But--there's one in every crowd.

 

[springvalley123]

Flash flood alert here for downtown Prescott, and Williamson Valley. Chino Valley is probably next. We just got a bucket of rain, maybe an inch in the last hour. So far so good no flood here on Aspen Creek!

I hope we get some too. So far just thunder and clouds, and the temperature dropped from 100 to 91.

 

[springvalley123]

The waxed egg started a little pip on the pointed end of the egg, but nothing else yet. It'll be Day 22 this evening, so there may still be hope.

does that mean he's stuck or in the wrong position? hope he/she makes it.

 

[BlueBaby]

does that mean he's stuck or in the wrong position? hope he/she makes it.

Yes, sometimes when they try to hatch at the smaller end of the shell, there's not enough room for the chick's head to move to finish pecking it's way out of the shell on it's own.

 

[Parront]

I hope we get some too. So far just thunder and clouds, and the temperature dropped from 100 to 91.

The alert on the radio included all the way to Cottonwood.

 

[BlueBaby]

The alert on the radio included all the way to Cottonwood.

I just hope that it will put out some of those fire's up there.

 

[Parront]

We got a nice cool down,

I just hope that it will put out some of those fire's up there.

It cooled us down from 95 to 67, and we got at least 1/2 an inch maybe more.

 

[springvalley123]

We got a nice cool down,

It cooled us down from 95 to 67, and we got at least 1/2 an inch maybe more.

I just looked at the weather underground radar, and it looks like the area beyond the "tactical fire break"/county road 59 got dumped on or at least some intense storm" so, if the fire gets there (it looked close) hopefully that wet fuel will greatly help contain it. There's a storm coming from camp verde that should hit me and then the fire area that looked like it was missed up to this point. Oh, and yesterday I saw a team of hotshots come through, presumably headed to the fire, and later a giant caterpillar equipment that could probably make room for a standard septic tank, in a single scoop. serious containment going on now. fingers crossed!

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Well, #3 has a hole and keeps pushing on it, getting nowhere. I moved the egg that was lying against where it was pushing so that all it would have to push against is its own shell.

I also took my fingernail and gently scraped off any wax that was thick to make it easier for the other baby to get out, but I didn't feel any movement in that egg. I can see dark feathers pushed against the little pip. Doesn't seem to be alive, but there's probably still hope.