Arkansas folks speak up.........

[PlumTuckered]

I bought these five little darlings on April 7th, within seconds I was totally in love:

Here they are after playing in the mud puddles yesterday:

My guestimation at this point is that the pink one is a Drake and the rest are lil Gals (I hope I'm right!!)

Michelle

 

[juliechick]

Hi everyone, We just went to the church to check email. Still do not have electricity at home. I was awakened last night about 3:30 a.m. by wind and rain so hard that water was coming in under our front door. I woke up DH, scared, but he was laughing at me. Our boys ended up down the stairs a bit later in our bed.

This morning I thought maybe DH was right, it was all okay, until I ventured out. A tornado had passed within 1/2 a mile of our house. Trees are down and electric lines. I heard a few were injured, but nothing too bad. We are thanking God.

I took my full incubator up to the church and plugged it in. Our music guy said, "If you incubate chickens in the church office, you might be a redneck."

Sorry, Amanda about your chicks. You've really had a hard time lately.

 

[PlumTuckered]

Our power went out just before 4am and came back on an hour ago.
I hope your's comes back on soon Hon!

Michelle

 

[De]

Sorry, to hear about your chicks Amanda!!!
Julie, I love that you have got your incubator at the church.. De

 

[Chicky Tocks]

Michelle those are soooo cute! They still have their colored heads

 

[juliechick]

I hope it comes back on soon, too! I guess I could have called a friend to take my incubator over to their house. It never crossed my mind.

ha We've always been around the church so much it feels like a second home, with Chad being a pastor.

Oh, I just candled an egg and the chicks are moving! The temp got down to about 82 for an hour or two while I was trying to get kids ready. Then they didn't even have school. Oh, well.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

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I'm really glad to hear that nobody was hurt and your eggs have survived. You've also given me an idea should my electricity goes out....either my eggs are going to the church or my office, whichever still has electricity. I have a key to both.

 

[juliechick]

YAY, good old electricity! We lived without it all the time I was growing up, but now I'm lost without my computer.

Things sure do change.

The bator and eggs are back home, humming away.

 

[insiderart]

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LOL!!

 

[jenjscott]

We live back in the sticks where outages are a common occurence. Since the ice storm 14 years ago when we were without power for two weeks we have kept a generator at the ready. We went out and cranked it up. Everybody stayed nice and toasty from my two week olds to the chicks and turkeys hatching in the hatcher and the eggs in the bator. I drove around Monticello after work. There are a lot of trees down all over, great big oaks tipped over with their rootballs and pines snapped off at the ground. A` lot of it was pure wind sheer