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[erinszoo]

Well got the old coop moved today and got the car parked in the back so no more having to deal with the insanity next door. And an added bonus that I hadn't thought of is that our new drive is completely in the shade all day long. The driveway out front is in sun all day long. Yeah us!! We decided that since we can't use the front driveway any more that we are going to plant trees all along the center line back to the parking place in front of the garage and then move our compost pile there.

However, we had casualties. The turkeys, who decided to roost on the window sill over the new nest boxes, threw all of our broody chickens eggs out of the nest onto the floor where they were crushed. I was so sad. We only had six days to go and 6 of the 10 eggs had babies.

And three of them were barred rock babies too. I was so sick when I found them. I guess we'll try again but I think I'll pull the incubator out this time and fiddle with it to see if I can get it a little more stable on temps first.

The ducks have all been happily mating lately. Since the girls haven't started to lay yet I doubt there's anything really happening but they all seem happy together. I'd always read and heard that you couldn't keep two male ducks together because they would fight but ours don't at all. We have two girls and two boys and they just are all happy with each other. I'm looking forward to our first egg.

Killed a bucket load of squash bugs today. We haven't had very many, just a couple at a time every couple of weeks but today I was pulling them off by the handful. Not happy.

 

[artsyrobin]

hey folks- what are the symptoms of heat stroke? i have a cochin pullet- weak, mouth breathing occasional seisures?? i'm giving her sugar water hoping that will help

 

[Ksane]

Sounds like heat to me, Robin.
We had a sex link squeeze out the gate last year in this heat and it was most the afternoon before I saw her. No water all that time and in bad hot temps, she was acting just like your pullet. I gave her a cool bath and kept her in the shade in the breeze. Took her about 24 hrs but she recovered.

 

[mjgigax]

Coral being an art student at one time myself, I would love to commission a couple od pics of a couple of my roosters if you have students interested, here are the two pics I'd love to have done in Pencil, Charcoal, Colored Pencil or Watercolors, or even if you have more than one student interested in different mediums!!! Lynn






More interested in the roosters, may be able to get other pics of them if these won't work, I like the way the roos are standing in these two!!! Lynn

Both of those roos have magnificent tails!

 

[mjgigax]

Sounds like heat to me, Robin.
We had a sex link squeeze out the gate last year in this heat and it was most the afternoon before I saw her. No water all that time and in bad hot temps, she was acting just like your pullet. I gave her a cool bath and kept her in the shade in the breeze. Took her about 24 hrs but she recovered.

Yep, I've dunked them (all but their head) in the water and splashed it under their wings and legs. Even left one sitting in the water as a last resort and she made it, was fine in a few hours.

 

[NanaKat]

Well, it's official. The weatherman lied to me today. We got nothing here!

They all lied to us!!! We didn't get any either....zip...nodda...nothing

 

[erinszoo]

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Well, I almost hate to chime in. We got ... I guess you can call it rain. It poured for long enough to make it feel like a sauna about a minute after pouring water over the hot rocks. But then it only got up to 94 so I can't complain too much.

 

[Kassaundra]

It rained here in Muskogee, I know it rained at home, but don't know how much.

 

[nnbreeder]

Welcome. It'll come in handy as we're getting our back pasture ready for our sweet cow Sue, who we get next month. There's lots of neat plans on there.

Open the barn to the East. It is rare to get a damaging wind from the East here, but it does happen. If it's open to the S during the summer dirt and dust will blow around in it all summer long. To the W it will catch the NW wind in the winter.

A friend recounted a tale to me one evening about his barn. He often BBQs out in the barn and has a lot of friends over. One Sat. night they were sitting around about 10 and a storm blew up rather quickly so they shut the doors and figured no big deal. Got to watching the doors and building as the wind got more fierce and he said the doors were bowing enough that they could hear the wood in the door creaking and the barn was flat doing some swaying. They took a wheat truck and backed it against the doors and then used chains and boomers as added wind braces for the walls and then everyone got under the truck to ride the storm out.

After the storm passed his brother told him,"See I told you to put those doors on the East" Doors are still on the West end but have been braced with steel and the chains are still on the walls.

 

[nnbreeder]

Killed a bucket load of squash bugs today. We haven't had very many, just a couple at a time every couple of weeks but today I was pulling them off by the handful. Not happy.

Bet they wern't too happy either!!