Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[IamSamSam]

Teila. I know that feeling ask Satay seems every week I send a pic like yours to her!

Glad your ok and the girls too

 

[satay]

Most of mine are molting.

You should see my marans they are moulting terribly at the moment.

 

[satay]

Teila. I know that feeling ask Satay seems every week I send a pic like yours to her!

Glad your ok and the girls too

She does indeed

 

[satay]

Howdy folks …. Just a quick visit, still mopping! satay Love the belgmahal! Your little bub is adorable! cwrite Ouch! I hope you are not feeling too bad, sounds painful! Fancy I am so very sorry to read about your young horse. Congrats to your daughter but so sad that the occasion was marred OMG! Rain! Wow! It started yesterday and did not stop until approx 6pm today but more to come. The idiot that lived here before us thought a sunken path would look nice around the house … yeah, it looks nice but not when it is a moat! We have been battling all day to keep the water out of the house; the chicken run is under water, luckily the coops are raised. The garden is a mess. Next door is higher than us and their pool is threatening to overflow. I took the opportunity of a break in the rain to give Cilla a quick wander around; she is sitting on dud eggs and had not moved for 24 hours! The other gals spent the majority of the day in the coop, no point going outside unless they had floaties on! And, that is nothing to do with Marcia, we have that to look forward to tomorrow but it should be downgraded to an ex tropical cyclone tomorrow morning but we honestly do not need the rain right now … I have no idea how the garden is going to cope with another deluge, it can’t soak up anymore so it just sits there. Anyway, we are safe and my thoughts are with those up North who have lost their home etc .. so sad Thank you everyone for your kind words re: Chimee, she is back to her normal playful self and did not require a second vet visit. I haven’t managed to find fertile eggs for Cilla yet. A very helpful lady was travelling up this way this weekend and was going to bring some Frizzle Pekin eggs with her but the weather has put a stop to that. We are keeping in touch as she may have a friend coming up on Monday. Otherwise, I have a couple of possible options to order eggs that will be posted on Monday but I hate not having a definite plan or any idea when I will have eggs for Cilla. She is happy enough on the three duds she has but I do not want her to have to wait for much longer or she will be sitting for too long. Anyways, we shall see; hopefully I will know something soon.

Fingers crossed for you today Teila. It's bucketing down here again though we have not had the totals that you girls closer to the coast have had. That pics so reminds me of the place we used to have in the city. One particular storm I spent 4 hours in the dark trying to keep the water from coming in the house. Hubby was flooded at work and people were ringing non stop asking for hubby to come help them as they had broken down in the storm. I felt like yelling can you not see I am trying to keep water out of my house

 

[Fancychooklady]

You should see my marans they are moulting terribly at the moment.

One of my coro's looks hideous. Looks like someone has plucked her ready for the pot.

 

[satay]

Howdy folks …. Just a quick visit, still mopping! satay Love the belgmahal! Your little bub is adorable! cwrite Ouch! I hope you are not feeling too bad, sounds painful! Fancy I am so very sorry to read about your young horse. Congrats to your daughter but so sad that the occasion was marred OMG! Rain! Wow! It started yesterday and did not stop until approx 6pm today but more to come. The idiot that lived here before us thought a sunken path would look nice around the house … yeah, it looks nice but not when it is a moat! We have been battling all day to keep the water out of the house; the chicken run is under water, luckily the coops are raised. The garden is a mess. Next door is higher than us and their pool is threatening to overflow. I took the opportunity of a break in the rain to give Cilla a quick wander around; she is sitting on dud eggs and had not moved for 24 hours! The other gals spent the majority of the day in the coop, no point going outside unless they had floaties on! And, that is nothing to do with Marcia, we have that to look forward to tomorrow but it should be downgraded to an ex tropical cyclone tomorrow morning but we honestly do not need the rain right now … I have no idea how the garden is going to cope with another deluge, it can’t soak up anymore so it just sits there. Anyway, we are safe and my thoughts are with those up North who have lost their home etc .. so sad Thank you everyone for your kind words re: Chimee, she is back to her normal playful self and did not require a second vet visit. I haven’t managed to find fertile eggs for Cilla yet. A very helpful lady was travelling up this way this weekend and was going to bring some Frizzle Pekin eggs with her but the weather has put a stop to that. We are keeping in touch as she may have a friend coming up on Monday. Otherwise, I have a couple of possible options to order eggs that will be posted on Monday but I hate not having a definite plan or any idea when I will have eggs for Cilla. She is happy enough on the three duds she has but I do not want her to have to wait for much longer or she will be sitting for too long. Anyways, we shall see; hopefully I will know something soon.

You got to love being a qlder. We do take the drought to flooding plains thing to the extreme.

 

[satay]

One of my coro's looks hideous. Looks like someone has plucked her ready for the pot.

Oh you win My marans look like they at least still have a skimpy bathing suit on

 

[Teila]

Good morning folks

Thanks everyone … we are doing OK and while probably a little peeved, the gals are OK also.

Ooooh look, it’s raining .. that makes a change! Sarcasm definitely intended!

Well hello Marcia, I would invite you to stay but to be honest, would prefer if you p’d off ASAP!

Here we go again ......



The good news … 2-4 hours and it should start clearing. Not only are we sick of it, I am sure the girls are over it also. All the rain is bringing the worms to the surface so that is something to take their little chicken minds off the fact that they are soggy

Not the best week, I had my phone stolen on Thursday night and have been lost without it … before I got a chance to e.mail my sister to let her know that she could not ring me and also let her know that we were not drowning, she had been ringing and texting and getting a ‘disconnected’ message … she was having a minor heart attack until she got my e.mail to which she replied “I must say that was appalling timing. If you are going to get your mobile phone nicked, could you please NOT do it when there is a category 5 cyclone bearing down on Queensland” She also suggested that maybe I should have ducks not chickens .. I love her sense of humour!

Off to monitor the water levels in the moat and make sure no silly chickens end up swimming!

Stay safe everyone

 

[Duckie48]

Hi, do you have problems with foxes? I have to lock mine up in the coup. When my geese lay I put them in large dog crates. If I don't I lose them. I have lost a few believe me.

 

[Duckie48]

What a great looking coup.