Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[ozexpat]

Hope the birds are ok and you can just flip it back up.

ok my

i thought it was partially constructed, not lying on its back!!!

a 4x4 in each corner with a bag of concrete in the post hole may be in order

 

[hillfloweranch]

Lol oz....nope on it's back but righted and anchored. Birds are fine

 

[ChickenFox]

Tad windy here...

And here I thought it was windy here today. Hope there wasn't any chickies behind it when it flipped!

 

[FridayYet]

It's crazy windy here too. They can't even fight the brushfire in Rancho from the air due to the wind. My friends family has been evacuated.

So strange to hear about the snow and rain and storms in most of the country. While here in So Cal nothing but heat and dry all winter. Well except for the rainstorm we got last weekend right after we removed the rain gutters, painted the house and tore up our front walkway!!

HFR Hope the chickens are ok!

 

[perchie.girl]

Tad windy here...

LOL dad used to say ""it was so windy today I saw my chcken lay the same egg.... Twice""

They closed interstate 8 today because of 80MPH wind gusts. The corridore that I travel to home.... The two halves of the free way are on different levels.... I have had rocks pelting my truck so loud you would have thought someone was shooting.

here in Santee The wind had the trees inside out.... the doorbell rang then an urgent knock. Gawd I though the police were coming to evacuate.... Fire has done that before.... but no.... My truck bed liner was fully inside out the only thing keeping it on the truck was the tie rings. The fellow was trying to be helpful He wanted to take "bricks" from Grandmas retaining wall to ancor it down for me.... "UM No thank you .... I will handle it...." I said. Her retaining wall isnt bricks its those professionally laid decorative wall retainers.... Besides the wind would have just slid them down to the cab and still flipped the bed liner inside out.

I wound up getting my next new Rope out un winding it and tying the liner down by making a V from the ties at the cab to the trailer hitch.

I have seen whole shed row horse barns flipped over like your coop. Leaving the horses standing un injured.... Of course what happens afterward is another story.

If you have prevailing winds that threaten a building or shed another option is to build a short solid wall about four feet away it starts the air from the ground moving up and that air compresses the rest pushing it up and over.

Its blowing from an odd direction too. I am glad my horses shade structure is rated for 100 mph.

deb

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Last night and this AM were terrible. Temp dropped to low 40's and wind/rain/sleet hit us. Off and on all day. Suppose to be colder tonight. I thought with 80 degree weather last couple weeks here and there we were in for some warm air. Oh well.

Lost some meats due to cold air and piling. Were fine and dandy yesterday. I sealed some more of the drafts in the coop where brooder is located. Hope it works. Lose anymore and I already told wife I moving to garage, where she does not want them but she agreed.

This weekend lady my oldest daughter babysits for was at work (Hog confinement) and part of the barn roof came off in the wind.

Birds doing good. Have (FINALLY) some nice birds to pick up Friday. From a breeder. Few LH and few RIR. Which will be carrying fertile eggs. That will go into bator.
Those in cook status are ok, except 1st batch was a botched job on my part, I think. Was pulling and cracked 1 looked late term death... but was live. Few times bator was low temp and didn't figure that in. Hoping to salvage any other viables but doubtful. Tomorrow will clean it out and move duck eggs over due to hatch next week. A bit of egg shuffling in the next few weeks but will work around it.

Calf fine and so is horse he ahs a paddock 4 times as large as he had at trainer and green grass to mow down. Still waiting on a response from a lady about some BPR chicks I was talking to.

Thinking 5 months ahead of myself for breeding. Unless I can get a nice rooster soon. Looking for BPR, LH, RIR or BO. I have these breeds in pure pullets. SLW also but not as much interested there.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

You must be in the south. I feel your pain on the weather, as my gold fish are now playing in the neighbors yard and the frogs haven't stopped chirping since last evening. Hope you stay above water.

Well yes and no. I live on the IA/Mo border almost. Almost froze again last night. Down to 36. and today still no sun.


BTW that 1 monster egg was just a double yolk but they were really large for my girls.

 

[ozexpat]

Mrs Oz reports all is going well on CocoBeach.

Dominic and Ibo have been working well. The chicks in coops 1-3 are being rebanded and then trasfered to the grow-out coop.

The last batch of shipped egg chicks will go into coop 1 till I get there so I can check breeds ect.

The Turkey poults are doing well. They will move into coop 2.

The Pekins ducklings will move into their new digs this week. He ran out of the amacan woven bamboo while Mrs Oz was over here. She will have to do a run to Kabankalan to pick some up

Quail are due tomorrow. Chukar and Guineas next week.

They also set a few eggs while we were not looking lol. The following all look viable.

62 Chicken
10 Guineas
20 Chukar
34 Quail
20 Muscovy

I had not planned to set Scovies. I will have the birds set their own eggs in future. My limit will be 2 drakes and 12 hens. The long term plan for the scovies is to be broodies for the Pekins. The Scovy eggs will be consumed or sold.

I also want the Guineas doing their own work. We have 16 adults. The keets will be pinioned and free ranged.

Next trip wish list:

Pheasant
Crème Legbar
Mottled Houdan
Swedish Flower Hens
Banty Barred Rocks
New Hampshire Reds
Silver Laced Polish
Black Silkie
White Silkie
White Faced Black Spanish
Tolouse goose
Peafowl
red bourbon turkey
black turkey
royal palm turkey
Rouin Duck

 

[katbriar]

Ha ha. That next trip list looks as long as the first wish list when you started!

You are one crazy, persistent, remarkable chicken man.

It's inspiring.

 

[ozexpat]

Ha ha. That next trip list looks as long as the first wish list when you started!

You are one crazy, persistent, remarkable chicken man.

It's inspiring.

what can I say, some breeds are elusive,

237 chicks just moved into their new digs