Delawares from kathyinmo

[LeslieDJoyce]

All our coops are on wheels - for the Gypsy chicks
Main coop is a red twelve nest tandem trailer and the breeder coop is the small white single axle . six nester.
They move about 4 times a year enclosed in portable Emet.

Those coops are so nice. I wish Dad liked electric fencing and would consider e-net an option, because it would be great to put some birds on fresh pastures. Chickens are fantastic little lawn mowers and we've got plenty of weeds to offer them.

 

[finnfur]

WESTCOASTERS - I pray everyone is surviving this weather your having - From drought to flood - some places look bad
and the chickens will need to get on a ark for a coup.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

WESTCOASTERS - I pray everyone is surviving this weather your having - From drought to flood - some places look bad
and the chickens will need to get on a ark for a coup.

I was out yesterday playing frisbee with Gust and getting pelted with blowing debris. It made for exciting frisbee. Gust has never been so happy to not be able to catch it. We gave up, came inside ... checked the Internet ... winds measured at 71 MPH in the immediate area. It blew the back door of the cockerel colony closed, half of the residents still outside, and so they burrowed under a some chicken wire fencing to bunk down in the small space between the coop and a funky tarp shelter we'd set up when it was the ducks' space. The boys didn't want to come out of their little hole at bedtime, so they just slept in a pile in there. At least they were determined to survive.

All coops and Delawares accounted for this morning.

A big tree blew across the road below us ... I tried to get Dad to send the crew home, but we were loading a Semi that needed to get out ... so Dad sent a tractor crew down the hill to clear a path. Somehow the tree missed all the utility lines. We never lost power up here. Lots of other people in Portland did.

It was pretty and calm here today. I do wonder what's next.

 

[capayvalleychick]

We got a lot of rain, but no high winds and the power stayed on. I'm grateful that we live on a slight slope at a higher elevation than the valley floor. Rain forms small streams and runs through our property instead of flooding.
The breeder pens did flood, since the ground had been scraped flat, prior to construction. The roof angles to the back, and the water runs through them. I had dug a trench, made a french drain and put sandbags behind them. It didn't make any difference. I also deep bedded the pens with straw, but the chickens find delight in digging all the way down and making wallows. The four Del pullets that I was trying to keep clean are now happily covered in sandy mud.
I covered the wire grow out pens with plastic, but the rain formed a stream through there, also.
So, we need to do some more digging of trenches to get adequate drainage.

 

[finnfur]

We got a lot of rain, but no high winds and the power stayed on. I'm grateful that we live on a slight slope at a higher elevation than the valley floor. Rain forms small streams and runs through our property instead of flooding.
The breeder pens did flood, since the ground had been scraped flat, prior to construction. The roof angles to the back, and the water runs through them. I had dug a trench, made a french drain and put sandbags behind them. It didn't make any difference. I also deep bedded the pens with straw, but the chickens find delight in digging all the way down and making wallows. The four Del pullets that I was trying to keep clean are now happily covered in sandy mud.
I covered the wire grow out pens with plastic, but the rain formed a stream through there, also.
So, we need to do some more digging of trenches to get adequate drainage.

Good I am glad to hear all survived - chickens too - might have to issue water wings instead of flying wings.
How about Zanna and also Ron - they out there too?

Gust is going to need a heavier throw toy

 

[Zanna]

Good I am glad to hear all survived - chickens too - might have to issue water wings instead of flying wings.
How about Zanna and also Ron - they out there too?

Gust is going to need a heavier throw toy

We fared just fine. It had poured all night and in the morning it was still coming down and there was a lot of water in the front of several of my breeder pens. Dug a ditch along the front and re-routed the runoff. By about 10 the rain had stopped and the winds picked up about noon with gorgeous sunny warm weather! Quit about 6PM. No trees down and no loss of power although it flickered many times. A few students still came out for their riding lessons and the horses behaved fine even with the open sided indoor arena.

I deal with minor flooding every winter but not wind like that!!!

Anyone hear about Walt??

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Well, well, well ... Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing? They don't mention breed ... But those look like Delawares to me. Ish. Hmmmm.

"How To Breed A Better Chicken" ... "Jeannette Beranger from The Livestock Conservancy teaches Farmer George how to breed a better chicken and build a stronger flock."

 

[finnfur]

Well, well, well ... Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing? They don't mention breed ... But those look like Delawares to me. Ish. Hmmmm.

"How To Breed A Better Chicken" ... "Jeannette Beranger from The Livestock Conservancy teaches Farmer George how to breed a better chicken and build a stronger flock."

Very educational and hands on informative.
and I must add I saw some Rex wing there and I have decided we have some nice chickens group.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Very educational and hands on informative.
and I must add I saw some Rex wing there and I have decided we have some nice chickens group.

Exactly!!!

The video is like having Zanna here, with pause and rewind.

 

[ronott1]

We fared just fine. It had poured all night and in the morning it was still coming down and there was a lot of water in the front of several of my breeder pens. Dug a ditch along the front and re-routed the runoff. By about 10 the rain had stopped and the winds picked up about noon with gorgeous sunny warm weather! Quit about 6PM. No trees down and no loss of power although it flickered many times. A few students still came out for their riding lessons and the horses behaved fine even with the open sided indoor arena.

I deal with minor flooding every winter but not wind like that!!!

Anyone hear about Walt??

Walt posted on the Northern California thread that his pens were fine but that the vineyard was flooded.