BYC Café

[Shadrach]

......plus I'm getting older and slower.......

 

[Perris]

Bear in mind despite my entreaties and bribery attempts I haven't managed to get the chickens to participate in house management yet.

 

[ronott1]

I don't. I wouldn't mind having a bit of a kip but I've usually got a couple of roosters in the house at that time of day, and, to do what I need to get done during my waking hours I would need to stay up until 2am to make up for lost time.
Animal care takes up a couple of hours of daylight. I have to do all the stuff that single people have to do, cooking, washing, cleaning and shopping etc. That all takes time if one is to eat properly and not live in squalor. Bear in mind despite my entreaties and bribery attempts I haven't managed to get the chickens to participate in house management yet.
Then there are lamps etc to be made. There is a constant stream of maintenance projects to be taken care of.
If you now wipe out four hours of that day when it's this hot because you just can't do stuff outside, the remaining hours are pretty busy.

It sounds like you are staying busy!

Cooking some of our dinners using the Instant pot helps here with having good meals

 

[Perris]

Who could sleep in that heat?

fair point! But the southern Med cultures have a long tradition of designing houses to stay cool in summer, and after a couple of thousand years of tinkering, I think they have it about right (on trad builds, of course).

 

[cheepteach]

Masks and sanitizer - standard equipment in both vehicles.

masks in console, hand sanitizer, can of citrus Lysol to spray my reusable bags

 

[DobieLover]

Dobie, re your chick situation, you might find this encouraging:

while shutting up the coops tonight I found one of my 9 wk old chicks snuggled in the nest box with the 2 wk old chicks and their broody, Maria. Then when the other three 9 wk olds went in, one of them squeezed in with her too, while the remaining pair are cwtched up just on front of it; so cute! (The 9 wk olds' own broody, Eve, decided this week that she's had enough, and has been beastly to them to drive them away.) Perhaps my Maria will become like your Astrid; she's been very good with the older chicks, right since she emerged with her own brood. I wonder if she realizes that one of them is biologically hers...and the other three are Isabella's (Maria's sister, who went to live at the Castle, so her 'nieces').

The eggs should start cracking in a week. I'll have to get that ramp installed on one side of the nest box. It's out on bare floor in the brooder room.
I'll take mom off the nest with the hatchlings when I see them popping out from under her and open the door into the ward and let her manage introductions. I'm thinking she'll do an excellent job with all of them. I'm looking forward to it!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have the one peep out of mine pure white looks pullet picked it up looked hard must be EE ?

 

[ronott1]

I have the one peep out of mine pure white looks pullet picked it up looked hard must be EE ?

Often you can see the puffy cheeks on EE chicks

 

[pennyJo1960]

Barnyard EE allot of mine

 

[bruceha2000]

Better than a wrinkle on her face!

Very true!

I too struggle to remember a mask when going out though

I keep mine in my car so I'm good ... unless I go somewhere with DW or DD2. But that is pretty rare.

There's a temp guage in the shade on the town hall wall. It read 42C.

That is pure NUTS!!!!!!!

I started keeping my mask in my purse so I always have it along.

Works for people who carry a purse