It's been a pretty dry year here in central Florida, but it's been pouring all day today. I have two mama hens with babies - their coops are flooded. My serama hen and her two babies were standing on floating hay! My main runs are under water and my grow-out pen has about 2 inches of water in it.
So, now outside in a cage on my screened-in porch is my serama and her 2 babies, a big tub with 5 partridge Brahma 4-week-old chicks, and another cage overstuffed with about 25 Partridge Brahmas between 1 and 3 weeks old. In my living room is another big tub with 5 cochins and 2 Brahmas, about 5 weeks old and another tub with two just hatched chicks (they were already in anyway). Last but not least, Chrissie and her five 3-week-old chicks are on the front porch in a cage high and dry.
Hubby is outside in the rain digging a drainage ditch and I'm just out of the shower after being soaked to the skin! They're talking rain all week and my house is well overcrowded with chickies that are going to get pretty smelly pretty fast, but the poor guys were all standing in rain, some of them up to their bellies!
By the way, all my adult chickens are on the front porch staying dry and pooping all over my porch - they won't go in their coops because they don't want to get their feet wet!
Rain, rain go away ...
So, now outside in a cage on my screened-in porch is my serama and her 2 babies, a big tub with 5 partridge Brahma 4-week-old chicks, and another cage overstuffed with about 25 Partridge Brahmas between 1 and 3 weeks old. In my living room is another big tub with 5 cochins and 2 Brahmas, about 5 weeks old and another tub with two just hatched chicks (they were already in anyway). Last but not least, Chrissie and her five 3-week-old chicks are on the front porch in a cage high and dry.
Hubby is outside in the rain digging a drainage ditch and I'm just out of the shower after being soaked to the skin! They're talking rain all week and my house is well overcrowded with chickies that are going to get pretty smelly pretty fast, but the poor guys were all standing in rain, some of them up to their bellies!
By the way, all my adult chickens are on the front porch staying dry and pooping all over my porch - they won't go in their coops because they don't want to get their feet wet!
Rain, rain go away ...
