Well we got 4 1/2 inches of rain the other day all at once, just a deluge & it wasn't a good thing to get that much at once. We had a flood here & I lost 9 chicks on my one hoop coop I'm using for a growout pen. Of course they were the ones I really valued, my lavender Ameraucanas, 2 of my Tony Albritton Speckled Sussex, the wheaten Ameraucana pullet I've been babying for a month, some lavender Orps & a Frank's BR chick. I was just sick about it. We also had a collapse in the turkey pen, the front pole on the run collapsed due to too much weight from the water in the tarp, so those who are thinking of putting tarp over their pens, make sure you have enough support for standing water, especially if it rains much. HEChicken also had this happen to her. We were able to get the water out yesterday & straighten the pole enough to get the door closed & use the pen for now, but I eventually will have to replace that pole because the pen is all messed up now. I pulled the tarp back to just covering half the pen so there is netting on half of it now so the rain will go through. I'm going to have to think of a better alternative before winter for that pen because the snow sits on top of it too & it's too heavy. The pen is 10 ft by 10 ft. so it's hard to deal with. When the pen collapsed all the turkeys, ducks, & chickens that shared that pen at night were all out running around, they were pretty shook up, but I think OK. I have since moved the 4 ducks to their own pen so they will have more room with their own pool. My DH & I worked on the rock wall yesterday afternoon until feeding time moving it to divert water away from my hoop coops to a degree & building another wall in front of my two pens that get flooded & filled with mud. Hopefully it will at least slow the water down & it won't push so much mud in front of my pen doors. I have had trouble even getting in now that the hillside is bare & just dirt it becomes a running mud field. It looks like rain again today & we're under a flood watch here, imagine that after such a drought. Anyway, it looks like I'll be starting over with some of my projects since I lost so many chicks, not what I was wanting to do. I thought I was done hatching for the year, but I guess not. What a mess, oh & I also lost a nest of wheaten Ameraucana eggs my hen was sitting on, they were floating in water.
my white silkie chick with splayed les is doing great!!! We took the hobbles off for 10 or so minutes and its already looking so much better. It still has a little trouble walking around but it can stand and take a few steps without hobbles on 
. So just a update on that chick and the other eggs have not hatched but I suspect they will in the next day or so 
