California - Northern

[debs_flock]

Still leaking but my DH did a temporary fix in the attic to keep it from leaking in my dining room. We had some new siding put on the south side of our house and dormers last summer. It's leaking by one of the dormers. Probably a flashing issue.

The roof on this house leaked when I met DH. His theory was, it only leaked until the wood swelled, then the leak stopped

My theory was, I didn't like the 3x3 ft wet spot on the carpet by the woodstove.

Result - New roof on house

Savings account - what savings account?

I do my research work out at Point Reyes, where the Secretary of the Interior very unfairly has just decided to shut down Drakes Bay Oyster Farm

That decision irritated the cr*p out of me!

Deb

 

[gamelife]

Hey guys you're all in the same boat as me. The rain's really getting it huh? I went out to feed and check on the birds this morning and they're not too thrilled about it

. But now I have an excuse to stay inside and watch football all day

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[lawatt]

That decision irritated the cr*p out of me!

Deb

there's a White House petition that someone started that's starting to circulate -- i'm not usually an on-line petition kind of gal, but this conceivably could help:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...versing-decision-interior-department/GXsMsG3p

if concerned, please sign & distribute the link!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I have a few huge black oaks that are swaying badly. They hang over the chicken yard.
Hope they do not fall. so far we have not lost power today. hope it stays that way. alot of good sizes oak branches have fallen this week. should be good for firewood next year.

 

[chiqita]

Argh It's still raining???? My wonderful worker Luis is building a new brooder palace while we are in Cabo, I hope something is getting done, the Lavender Marans must be bursting out of the baby cage!!

you can bring them here Cheryl! mwahahahha. I need something to do with that 600 egg incubator.

we have just the tail this morning not the full thing. Its raining out there but not crazy rain. The chickens are braving it rather then cooping up on the porch or coop. I took the oppurtunity to debug silkieland since everyone was out, and inspected all the birds yesterday. I saw no bugs, but eggs in all the beards where they cant groom themselves. I'm thinking about putting nu stock on the beards so nothing that hatches lives. Its just lice eggs, not mites, but it looks like that is where they came from wait! The silkies are under the trees, and reg birds nest there too, they must be dropping wild ones. None of the big girls have any eggs, but ill treat the coop after the rains stop just in case. I got something that can be used as a spray so its nice and easy. Much better then powdering walls.

We did a count of roos to hens, and I need to at some point get rid of 2-3 silkie roos. If anyone wants a black or splash catdancer roo, let me know. Or a partrige boy, but he is my breeding so not as nice, but a real lap chicken. He came from a customer that carried him around in the house so he likes people. He would like to be head roo, but he mostly just crows about it, and goes into chasing battles with Julius, my head boy after Iggy. Its so cute, they do one round then get confused what way they are going, and turn around and the second one chases the first one. Then they both crow to show they won.

We trenched all the new coops yesterday, and put a whole bunch of new sand in the flooring of silkieland so its even higher then the surrounding area. 1/2 is on dirt and 1/2 is on wood, all covered in sand for easy cleaning. DH put new metal roofs on so the seam in between the 2 parts wont leak. I'm expecting it should be fine now, but want to see how it does today before I move chickens out.

Coop, I'm glad nothing blew away last night, sounds like it was fierce up your way. We have not gotten a lot of wind, just rain. However I'm a bit jelaous of you and chooks, I love the sound of wind in the trees. As long as they don't fall on the house...

Zoo, if you end up going to the Stockton show I can bring you some silkie chicks. Everyone should have silkies. And you think your orphies are piggies! My Marans eat twice as much they are little hoovers on legs. In the evening their whole front swings with full croup, when i first saw it I thought something was wrong!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

there's a White House petition that someone started that's starting to circulate -- i'm not usually an on-line petition kind of gal, but this conceivably could help:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...versing-decision-interior-department/GXsMsG3p

if concerned, please sign & distribute the link!

I will have to get a account there first so they know I am real. which they should after all the taxes I have paid them the last 20 plus years of working

 

[Hangtown Farms]

you can bring them here Cheryl! mwahahahha. I need something to do with that 600 egg incubator.

we have just the tail this morning not the full thing. Its raining out there but not crazy rain. The chickens are braving it rather then cooping up on the porch or coop. I took the oppurtunity to debug silkieland since everyone was out, and inspected all the birds yesterday. I saw no bugs, but eggs in all the beards where they cant groom themselves. I'm thinking about putting nu stock on the beards so nothing that hatches lives. Its just lice eggs, not mites, but it looks like that is where they came from wait! The silkies are under the trees, and reg birds nest there too, they must be dropping wild ones. None of the big girls have any eggs, but ill treat the coop after the rains stop just in case. I got something that can be used as a spray so its nice and easy. Much better then powdering walls.

We did a count of roos to hens, and I need to at some point get rid of 2-3 silkie roos. If anyone wants a black or splash catdancer roo, let me know. Or a partrige boy, but he is my breeding so not as nice, but a real lap chicken. He came from a customer that carried him around in the house so he likes people. He would like to be head roo, but he mostly just crows about it, and goes into chasing battles with Julius, my head boy after Iggy. Its so cute, they do one round then get confused what way they are going, and turn around and the second one chases the first one. Then they both crow to show they won.

We trenched all the new coops yesterday, and put a whole bunch of new sand in the flooring of silkieland so its even higher then the surrounding area. 1/2 is on dirt and 1/2 is on wood, all covered in sand for easy cleaning. DH put new metal roofs on so the seam in between the 2 parts wont leak. I'm expecting it should be fine now, but want to see how it does today before I move chickens out.

Coop, I'm glad nothing blew away last night, sounds like it was fierce up your way. We have not gotten a lot of wind, just rain. However I'm a bit jelaous of you and chooks, I love the sound of wind in the trees. As long as they don't fall on the house...

Zoo, if you end up going to the Stockton show I can bring you some silkie chicks. Everyone should have silkies. And you think your orphies are piggies! My Marans eat twice as much they are little hoovers on legs. In the evening their whole front swings with full croup, when i first saw it I thought something was wrong!

that is always a concern. I lost a car a few years ago to a black locust. Parked my car at the end of the road when it was snowing ( 1/2 mile away) walked down at 5am next morning and no car was crushed lol

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Gusts up to 50mph last night. Rain. No power went out though...

 

[Feathersprings]

Morning everyone -

The downside of living in a heavily forested area - when the wind is blowing so hard that it sounds like a jet engine in your yard, it's hard to sleep without wondering if a tree is going to fall on you. Especially with all this rain.

I need to go out and check on everybody, but I'm waiting for a bit and hoping it eases up some. Havin' my coffee.


Monster - sorry you have also had losses. A turkey, huh?

That sounds like my night... sitting here surrounded by tall pines.. I also haven been out yet and the coffee isnt even started , ugh.. I left the TV on all night to drown out the wind a bit.

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

That sounds like my night... sitting here surrounded by tall pines.. I also haven been out yet and the coffee isnt even started , ugh.. I left the TV on all night to drown out the wind a bit.

The trees squeaked so I kept thinking I heard bantam chicken distress!