California - Northern

[Ali707]

Redding will be about 5 degrees hotter each day than Roseville, so when it is 110 for you it will be 105 for Ali. The Record high for Roseville is 114. Redding is closer to 118.

Hot!

Yeah Ewwww! I don't live in Palm Springs (where my parents used to live) for a reason! I will take the 5 degrees..... lol

Up here I give the girls overgrown cucumbers, they prefer watermellons but at $7.00 a piece I wait until we have extended heat before giving them. I go through 3 watermellons a day. We run pretty close in temp to Redding but a little cooler at night.

I treat the birds at fair with cucs, you can get a shower walking down the rows. Another volunteer gives them corn cobs in the evenings after she cores them. It's fun to watch birds learn to eat something other than crumbles, after they figure out it won't eat them.

Holy cow $7 a piece! I can't remember the last watermelon I bought. I don't usually eat them myself. Plus I only had 12 hens at the time. Chunks of mellon for entertainment goes farther. I have a bunch of icky meal worms now too that have lots of beetles in the drawers. That was another BYC, "Hey I could do that" moment. And now I have icky beetles in 3 drawers. Some have such active colonies of meal worms they the devour stuff like watermelon rinds and things.

ETA: Used the non-word "ick" too many times. Took one out. That is what happens when you sit here and have too many beers without dinner!

 

[gryeyes]

This evening I struggled with the small green house kit I bought a couple of months ago. Somebody wondered why I was constructing a greenhouse so late in the season; I should plant directly in the ground NOW. Ummm. I have poultry. The greenhouse is to protect plants from chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese, not low temperature. (It Is an experiment.)

 

[OR4-hmom]

Yeah Ewwww! I don't live in Palm Springs (where my parents used to live) for a reason! I will take the 5 degrees..... lol

Holy cow $7 a piece! I can't remember the last watermelon I bought. I don't usually eat them myself. Plus I only had 12 hens at the time. Chunks of mellon for entertainment goes farther. I have a bunch of icky meal worms now too that have lots of beetles in the drawers. That was another BYC, "Hey I could do that" moment. And now I have icky beetles in 3 drawers. Some have such active colony's of meal worms they the devour stuff like watermelon rinds and things. They still have a huge ick factor for me though.

I try not to give them Mexican grown produce. The only mellons I could find during the heat were at an expensive market.

 

[tommysgirl]

15 or so Basque will hatch on Sunday and I set 25 more on Friday. These are going to the Egg Farmer in winters. I will be able to pick the best ones for next years breeding and of course I want to use Megans Roosters to jack mine up too! I should have some very nice Basque next year.

This is very good news for those of us who are about to be chicked out for 2013 but who still want BASQUES

You know, I probably over use emoticons because I am always misunderstood. I am very sarcastic and I am ALWAYS joking. They are somewhat required in a forum when the written word does not necessarily convey the intended meaning.

I feel ya sistah

Anyone here ever seen a peacock x chicken hybrid? I know someone who has one.

We have multiple feral peacocks who do their best to make time with our girls...no takers. Actuallyl the girls have assumed Ray's role as badash peacock dispatchers and will have NONE of them. Woe to the peahen who wanders into the run...she will be jumped by a red black and white flurry of feathers.

 

[ronott1]

No kidding. We are in the process of putting a pool in our yard, and it's going to have a beach entry. I wonder if the girls will go into it a little ways on the really hot days.

Mine do not go near water so I do not have personal experience but I have read that chickens will swim for a little while and then get water logged. They do not have oil like Ducks and are not able to float for long.

They will drown in a swimming pool. It would be fun to dunk them under supervision though....

 

[BCollie]

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In a regular swimming pool, maybe...But a beach entry is a gentle slope that leads into the pool, so the chicks could walk in and out of it, if they want to, don't you think?
The key words being "if they want to"!!

 

[tommysgirl]

As my H worked on framing the new coop we had our week ish old babies in the OC...original coop... It was HOT and their firs time out and they have been absolutely beat since. They all did great. so did H I will post pics tomorrow of the weekend's progress, and maybe of the babies.

 

[ronott1]

In a regular swimming pool, maybe...But a beach entry is a gentle slope that leads into the pool, so the chicks could walk in and out of it, if they want to, don't you think?
The key words being "if they want to"!!

Yes, they will love it on a hot day!

 

[ronott1]

As my H worked on framing the new coop we had our week ish old babies in the OC...original coop... It was HOT and their firs time out and they have been absolutely beat since. They all did great. so did H I will post pics tomorrow of the weekend's progress, and maybe of the babies.

I took the Australorps and Black Penedesencas out to the front yard today--they stayed in a pen with panels that folds up. The Black Penes could fit through the squares so they did not stay in very long. The Australorps were in for an hour while we ate dinner and cleaned out their brooder. I then moved the Fogel RIRs out there and they were out for a couple of hours.

They are all very happy now. I will get pictures and a video posted tomorrow.

 

[Ali707]

As my H worked on framing the new coop we had our week ish old babies in the OC...original coop... It was HOT and their firs time out and they have been absolutely beat since. They all did great. so did H I will post pics tomorrow of the weekend's progress, and maybe of the babies.

Lol H???? not DH? Hmmmmm.