OK, I know we needed rain, but my coop/run is flooded!

[dgecko]

My runs were doing the same thing I ended up putting tin on all pens. I found a place that sold tin cheap so I ended up buying around 200 sheets for under $5 a sheet. All runs and pens stay dry now and a wet chick isn't something good

 

[gryeyes]

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Chickens like rain, from what I've discovered. Silly birds. Brings out the worms, makes the grass and weeds crisp and juicy. They do NOT like the wind, though. They will hunker down under tree cover before they go back into the coops.

 

[welasharon]

It flooded here today too...and while I was in town. I rushed back cause I had left the polish out....there they were under a bush. Ding dongs! I was running around in the rain, ankle deep in water gathering them up. I finally took my jeans off I was so soaked! After I got the last polish in I realized the other two were acting odd....they were crouched down and weaving their heads back and forth and they were walking backwards in circles....after a bit I realized their crests were waving about over their heads and they thought something was trying to get them. Ha! I had to take them in the house and blow their heads dry. Luckily my land slopes a bit so it all runs on through the yard. The walkways channel the runoff.
sharon

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

Its been raining here since 5:30 this morning. Thunder sounding like a machine gun woke me up. Lost power for over 2 hrs. I was the first to call it in. It eased up a bit long enough to feed the horses and other misc. chores and its been raining ever since sometimes in buckets. This is the first time I've been able to get on line, no cable way out here, just satalite which sucks in the rain. Chickens are in a barn and mostly stayed in but the adults free range and believe it or not were out in the rain. Looked like drowned rats when I put them in. Its not supposed to end till Wed. and we start all over again Fri. when another front comes through. I hope this isn't a repeat of 2006. Heaven help us and man the life boats.

 

[Sjisty]

We're drying out today. The flooding has gone down. It really stays fairly dry in the coops/runs but there was just too much rain yesterday. The chicks are out of my house and back in their pen with new shavings and dry food. They sure were happy to have room to move again!

Since the rain confined most of my chickens to their coops, I now have three!!!! broody partridge Brahma hens. Looks like there will be more babies - I'm going to give them some eggs I had planned for the incubator this week.

Anyway, everybody else is out there digging and having a grand old time finding whatever the water has flushed out. The flock has all wandered out to the cow pasture (no cows anymore). There's no telling what they are finding out there! Everything sure looks green today. Hopefully the rest of the week's rain will come a little slower.