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ronott1 said:
On the announcement forum, Rob said that a config file was corrupted. Matt fixed it and reset the servers
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Ah.. I was worried for a second that it was something wrong w our network, but everything else seemed to work so I assumed it was the site. Glad they were able to get it fixed quickly.

FlyingNunFarm said:
I’m to exhausted to upload pictures but update from the last few days...
Almost had Nunnys Ark. There is so much water out there. The coop is at 95% humidity.
Dealing with a girl with crop issues. Thought it was sour but I think it’s stuck. I’ve flushed it a few times now and got all sorts of nasty, smelly stuff out. Monistat is being given and only water and grit.

In the downpour yesterday I shoveled a trench around the coop. Through the run and all along the front side. Had a raging river for a bit but the water is going away from the coop. So it’s a start.

I’ve had a few snotty noses and sneezes. I’m not sure what that’s all about. The weather an illness some dust up the nose?
But I found one of the Spitz dead this morning. Was alive last night at bed checks...
So today I cleaned out the whole coop. Got the pallets off the dirt in the back and found 2 little mole babies. Got 12 bags of pea gravel down. Didn’t put any shaving back in there. They only have cement floor up front for now. I put 2 little fans out there too. Try and move some air.
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Wow, I wondered what happened when coops were on the ground... even barns seem like they'd get a lot of water inside during these conditions. Is it possible that putting some bricks around the outside of the coop where it's got the dirt floor would help at all? Hopefully the gravel helps, and if not.. you have grit! Do you maybe know someone or be able to rent a small backhoe when things dry up some get put in a french drain like 21 suggested? It's probably way to wet to have something of that size out there now, but it'd save your back.
Sorry to hear about the spitz. Is that one that had problems a while back?

Chickassan said:
Just keep the old girls as happy as possible, really all you can do.
The pond, the neat thing is you can pretty much use anything and it will look amazing.
You're one of those gifted people.
Never would have though sweet floppy Tilly would be a brat, tell her i'm mildly disappointed.:caf

Well kiss gentleman William goodbye and say hello to "Give me that banana woman!" Willy....you've opened Chiquita's box.:gig
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Right? He was super nice to my daughter last night, he was probably waiting for a banana. Lucky for him I have several brown spotted bananas waiting for him.

FlyingNunFarm said:
View attachment 1816931 This was inside the coop the other night. A good quarter of it soaked from all the rain.
View attachment 1816928 This was after today. That is where all the dirt is. Luckily when I picked up the pallets it wasn’t a moldy mess. There was a little but nothing horrible. I pea graveled all of it and put pallets back under the nest boxes.
View attachment 1816932 The moat....across the run.
View attachment 1816933 Out the front side....
View attachment 1816929 In front of the door...
View attachment 1816930 To a low spot.
View attachment 1816927 Out the back of the run. The lawn is so long here because it’s so wet. I’m going to try and dig this area out more. But I literally pulled the grass up and scooped mud out of that hole. What a mess!
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That looks horrible. Any way you can work on building up the run over the summer? If it keeps happening, you could consider putting a floor in the coop and raising it up off the ground. I have my coop about a foot of the ground, it's on top of a hill so the water flows away from the coop and run down to a low spot in the yard.. I know you didn't have a choice about the location, but maybe you can change some things to make it work better by grading the soil, maybe putting a barrier on the front or back of the run to keep water from flowing straight in, and allow it to go around.. kind of like a ground gutter. Also did you put gutters on your roof? If not you could either add some and keep the rain from flooding the run, or put a tarp over that section for now and slant it so the water goes toward the low spot. I put a drain in my tarp of the back of the run and put it to a big pvc pipe so when it rains it doesn't fill up (made that mistake last winter w/ the snow).
 
Gutters would be helpful but I'm not sure how I could attach them. There is no fascia board along the edge of the roof. Just the open end of the rafters.

The yard has a slight slope in the direction of the coop but not even enough to have a ball roll on it's own.
The neighbors to the high side dug a pond a few years ago (I was told) but I wonder if it was because the water table in the back is so high.

The long grass in one section, I haven't even attempted to mow, is all laying directionly.... the way the water is pushing it.

Really this is 50 year flood levels of rain. We haven't had this wet of a spring in my memory. Not constant like this anyway.
 
CapricornFarm said:
Power is out and I have brooders full of chicks and an incubator full of eggs. Hope it comes on soon!
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That always worries me when that happens.

Hope it comes back soon. The incubators should be fine as long as you keep them warmish. If it is going on too long, I would get the oxygen activated hand warmers to put inside the incubator and in with the chicks in the brooders.
 
FlyingNunFarm said:
Still working on a plan. This was certainly a temporary fix and it did work to get the water out of the way. The ground is just saturated to max. I’m also on clay. So there is a layer of dirt then impenetrable clay. I think that’s why it gets soooo soggy. The clay is wet then there is no place for any more water to go. I had to scrape it off the shovel. I’m pretty sure I could have bricks out of the stuff. If it would ever stop raining so the sun could bake it. LOL
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Have you looked into making a french drain?

 

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