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

[Fancychooklady]

The run is about an inch under water Everyone is coping ok except for the frizzle bantam. Feathered feet are awful. Not sure what we will do if the rain continues tomorrow

If you can get your hands on a tree trunk cut billets about a foot high .they make great stepping stones. After the rains are gone they make good tables for feed bowls.

 

[Teila]

Lol

Lol! Please do not walk into the Bank dressed like that

 

[IamSamSam]

Hehe, you look like an Eskimo or a taswegian.

Lol yeah it's that cold

Lol!  Please do not walk into the Bank dressed like that 

Hehe

 

[Outpost JWB]

If you can get your hands on a tree trunk cut billets about a foot high .they make great stepping stones. After the rains are gone they make good tables for feed bowls.

Great idea! It has been pouring rain in Ohio for a month now. April showers bring May flowers....??? I don't see how anything but frogs will grow out there. There are puddles with tadpoles all over our yard. My mud boots have been put to the test.

 

[vehve]

Silly Ozzies, thinking it's cold.

Our chicks went into the run for the first time yesterday, I spent half an hour trying to catch two chicks in the little 6 square meter run, they kept darting back and forth between a rooster, four cockerels and a hen. At the end, they just climbed back in on their own, and I had been worried for no reason. The coop entrance is about a meter in the air, and the ramp is pretty steep, maybe 45deg angle. But up they went, with their tiny little three week old feet. It was about 8-9C warm yesterday in the day, and the chicks didn't seem cold at all even though they only have feathers on their wings. The chicks being in the run wouldn't have been an issue, but only two of them went there, and two stayed in the coop, and both mommies went out with the two explorers. So I didn't want to leave those two alone in the coop.

 

[appps]

Wow just watching the weather on the news. Don't have anyone up near maitland do we?

 

[vehve]

Whoa, just checked the forecast for Maitland, that's a lot of water.

 

[appps]

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Whoa, just checked the forecast for Maitland, that's a lot of water.

Yes, been a bad and sad day today

 

[vehve]

That gives a whole new definition to the term "moving house".

It must be horrible to suddenly wake up to find your house has become a house boat, you practically loose everything. I hope no people have been hurt. The most rainwater I've seen accumulate in the street was about 6-7 years ago when the center of Helsinki had about a foot of water floating around, luckily it drained away in a matter of hours. It was pretty surreal to walk around in knee deep water. That kind of things make you think twice about the foundation and location of your house.

 

[cwrite]

I just saw the news on the weather in NSW

Hope everyone that lives down that way is ok and that their chooks get a chance to dry out soon!

We had a beautiful day here - it actually felt nippy. I loved it although I have yet to figure out how it can be chilly when it's 21.5C & 50% humidity. 16C felt warm when I lived in the UK.

The chookens are all fine. I'm just waiting for sunrise to happen late enough to start locking their coop at night again. Still working on the pellets.