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117 predicted on Friday!!! I am on my way to Sprouts to pick up some watermelons (at .9cent lb) and have them ready for an afternoon treat for my "girls" in the coop. I have also heard of giving them cucumber and tomatoes during the heat to keep them hydrated. Sometimes the water is not "cool" enough for them!
I do love the hot nights, but makes it nearly impossible to get up early enough to go running in this heat! Haven't gone in about a week. Hate that.
I fed some watermelon to the broody girls yesterday. My old BO and my brand new EE layer - she has barely been laying for a month. She is healthy, but I so worry about them spending the whole hot day in those boxes. The BO ate the melon with fervor, but the EE seems to be in some sort of trance. I am worried... She is my only green egg layer! I have been hosing down the coop trying to create some humidity for them as well as cool off the chooks.
Frankly, it is just too hot to go out there much to fuss over them. I am just not up to spending time out there trying to break those broodies. I did candle the eggs. One looks like it will hatch within a week, one looks to be in it's second week (early) and the one under the EE is just getting started. There were two others, but they got eaten
By the broodies????? (one under each broody met this fate) Not sure what happened there.
Ugh, we don't need any new chickens!!
Oh, and my 85lb dog is officially AFRAID of the mean WA rooster! We love to tell him to "go get the rooster". He runs out in the yard and blasts through the flock, irritating the rooster into coming after him (we only do this with a rooster already gone bad). They run after each other around the yard - the rooster after the dog, then the dog after the rooster. They occasionally make contact, but mostly it is just a hilarious chase scene. Yesterday, after this chase, the rooster hid behind a bush. I was throwing watermelon into the yard for the chooks. The dog leaned his head down to pick up a piece and the rooster took advantage of that moment. He came out of nowhere and tagged the dog right in the face. The dog ran away. He looked at the rooster as if to say, "hey! that's not fair!" Incensed, he has decided that the rooster doesn't play nice, so he isn't going to play with him anymore. He refused to fetch his ball when it landed in the vicinity of the rooster. Silly dog!
Hurray!! about the photo radar! I had heard that the contracts may be renewed after all. Also, I think some of the permanently mounted ones are staying - like in Scottsdale.
