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[mcurry]

I have my arm floaties on & doing a head count. Wow @ everyone's pics. All chickens, cats, & coops accounted for? Hello to newcomers. My buffs are scared witless after that insane storm. Now in trueIndiana fashion, let us endure the flooding period. Hope AmLambson's coop stays safe! Mother2hens those are neat pics, & I bet your chickies are none too happy. Craftychick I'm glad you got it mowed. I didnMt get
Mine in time.

 

[bradselig]

Chickens are stuck in the coop today. Its flooded all around the coop. The would have to swim from the coop to reach dry land. It looks like I have a lake front property!

 

[Kiniska]

pipdzip said: This is what I mean by river through my chicken yard.

[COLOR=B22222]Pip~ What a coincidence that the river is in the shape of a chicken's leg and foot![/COLOR]

Looks like you need a french/ curtain drain.

 

[Kiniska]

Ugh! Mud, then humidity. Sometimes I think I should move out west. Then I realize I would just be trading one set of problems for another.

On a different tangent...

Got my Cornish/RockX meat birds on Monday from Murray McMurray. Man do they eat and drink a lot. Up to this point I have only had heritage chicks. These guys are growing leaps and bounds daily and I am constantly cleaning the brooder. Next time I am building a larger brooder out side. My entire house smells like chicken and not in the good fried way.

 

[EmSteele]

Lost a Chick today. He was a little guy and I knew there would be problems right away. Our local TSC doesn't let you pick out your own birds.....although I would have brought it home anyway just to make sure he was well cared for before it died. First chick death for me :'(

 

[mcurry]

Chickens are stuck in the coop today. Its flooded all around the coop. The would have to swim from the coop to reach dry land. It looks like I have a lake front property!

Ugh! Mud, then humidity. Sometimes I think I should move out west. Then I realize I would just be trading one set of problems for another.

On a different tangent...

Got my Cornish/RockX meat birds on Monday from Murray McMurray. Man do they eat and drink a lot. Up to this point I have only had heritage chicks. These guys are growing leaps and bounds daily and I am constantly cleaning the brooder. Next time I am building a larger brooder out side. My entire house smells like chicken and not in the good fried way.

The chickens can borrow my arm floaties lol I always debate the great move every winter/spring/summer. Atleast in Infiana we have a variety during any given day lol I know the chicken smell indoors all too well! When we get our meat birds in July I want their brooder to be outdoors. Then again, I'm getting about 25 so outside is only option. I'm glad they're growing & healthy allbeit stinky.

 

[Kiniska]

The chickens can borrow my arm floaties lol I always debate the great move every winter/spring/summer. Atleast in Infiana we have a variety during any given day lol I know the chicken smell indoors all too well! When we get our meat birds in July I want their brooder to be outdoors. Then again, I'm getting about 25 so outside is only option. I'm glad they're growing & healthy allbeit stinky.

I have 25 in the house. My husband is not happy. On the up side it has motivated him to get the other half of our barn finished!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

pipdzip said: This is what I mean by river through my chicken yard.

[COLOR=B22222]Pip~ What a coincidence that the river is in the shape of a chicken's leg and foot![/COLOR]

Looks like you need a french/ curtain drain.

What is that, if you don't mind me asking? I was just planning on getting some gravel to fill that trench so the water can flow out, but my sand won't wash away so much. All that rain flowed away nicely, so my hens at least had firm land to come out of the coop onto.

 

[animallover2202]

thanks everyone for the info for the coop instead of 5 gallon buckets can i use 3 gallon buckets?

 

[Crafty chick]

Sorry for your loss Em. I kinda didn't give the lady an option at TSC... I told her I wanted to see each chick and decide. That was for the bantams.
Chickens are staying inside today here. Super windy and temp dropped so much they would freeze. I have a 1ftx3ft window open on the east side... its blowing from the south west so no draft is going inside. I gave them bread scraps to hopefully keep them busy for a little bit. I turned the heat lamp back on for the 5 week orps and 7 week bantams. They are a lot happier.
Mcurry~ maybe with this temp drop the grass won't grow? I had to do ours. It was already like a field of dandelions, clovers, and different colors of grass.