Dixie Chicks

[WVduckchick]

Wait a minute, I see green grass! I am west of the Blue Ridge Parkway and we have lake where our meadow used to be. What is worse? All this rain with mud slides or snow and ice?

I really, really hate the cold, but I'd gladly give up a little warmth for this rain to stop. Even my pens that normally stay very dry are leaching the water from the sopping, saturated ground around them.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

I am on a slip and the water is standing.

 

[hennible]

Oh dear

 

[Alaskan]

I am on a slip and the water is standing.

Not sure what that means.....



Here we had a foot of snow and now the sky is letting forth slushy snow. Oh boy!

 

[Ravynscroft]

We get rain trying to drown us, then freezes into a downhill skating rink... thaws to turn into mudslide, rinse and repeat...

This is what is happening to the pens... I am in the lower pen looking up into the main Am pen... used to be a few inches clearance below said fence where the littles would go back and forth between...

 

[minihorse927]

We get rain trying to drown us, then freezes into a downhill skating rink... thaws to turn into mudslide, rinse and repeat...

This is what is happening to the pens... I am in the lower pen looking up into the main Am pen... used to be a few inches clearance below said fence where the littles would go back and forth between...

I have the same problem!!! The smaller fencing on the inside of a chain link run holds the mud in and doesn't allow it to run down over the hill side which in turn makes it into a Puddle of Muck!

 

[Ravynscroft]

I have the same problem!!! The smaller fencing on the inside of a chain link run holds the mud in and doesn't allow it to run down over the hill side which in turn makes it into a Puddle of Muck!

Yup... the Bog of Eternal Stench...

And the high end of the pen loses 6" of height while the lower end gains 6" of sludge...

 

[minihorse927]

Yup... the Bog of Eternal Stench...

And the high end of the pen loses 6" of height while the lower end gains 6" of sludge...

yes! Exactly! This is the reason for the new barn!

 

[Ravynscroft]

yes! Exactly! This is the reason for the new barn!

Worst part about it all... the duck pen is highest, turkeys just below them, then the Am pen... so that's some ripe sludge by the time it stops there!

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Several days recently, I have clung to chainlink fence to keep from slipping downhill. The goats are fine but the chickens runs were really wet.