Chris Herzog is in Covington a little closer to you than I am I'm from way up north(as ya'll real far southerners refer us as) around the Leesville/Ft. Polk area.
Either way it may be a little late now due to heat may have to wait till fallish type weather ITs bad humid here now I know that Cindy's got us beat in numbers of degrees but I bet we got her beat in dreadfulness and pure dee downright nastiness and sweat dripping HOTNESS here though, Desert rats come on an get you'all some LOL
Jeff
Jeff, I know what you mean on sticky heat...spent the first 35+ years of my life in Tulsa, OK.
Moved to Northern Calif. @ 2004 and then to AZ in 2011. Of all 3, Northern Calif. has 'em beat for awesome weather...
Sure it hit 90 in Novato, CA (where I was at in 2010)
but it dropped to cool 58 by late evening...now that's what I'm talkin' about!!!
Here in Hell's Kitchen (AZ) it will hit 113+ by Saturday and only drop to 88-90 for the low. Wowza...that's the real difference...it just does not give you or the critters much of a break...'course that 's a heat wave here...it will last about a week then back to a 'cooler' 105+ and down to 78-80ish until the next heat wave....hoping we get some monsoons early this year...where we'll be blessed with some rain droplets or maybe even a full 1/4 inch!! LOL
People live here for the nice winters, I suppose...we moved here due to my husband's career/job. I still miss Northern Cali terribly...up in Walt's neck of the woods
It really is 'chicken heaven' there....
I am having to get real creative with chick brooding....mixture of fans, low watt bulbs and frozen bottles of water to come close to ideal temps for them...they are a bit too young at 4 days to put in outside coop/grow out pen just yet...there's a mister out there and lots of shade...NEVER AGAIN will I hatch this late...
but opportunity knocked with Roebuck's Buff Rocks and I answered the door of course!!
Still lovin' the half and half NH's....set 2 friends up with a few males and 4-6 females...doing real well with them thus far...I need to post some pics soon...about 5 months now. The males just started crowing...lanky as heck still...females are looking decent...some with pinched tails that favor more of the Reese side and some with nice open tails and a bit lighter than the classic germans...some black ticking showing up in some female's hackles...we'll see after first adult molt on coloring i suppose. It was a good cross for dual purpose and I don't think it would take a long time to get them approaching SOP really either. None of the females are laying yet...'course with this heat that might be delayed a bit too.
