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[jcatblum]

Retired Army wife - the guy who bales our hay would be happy to take your birds. I will be in Lawton tomorrow - or sometime this weekend. If no one else has offered to take your birds, I will be happy to pick them up & drop them off. Just lmk if you still need a home for them. He has a coop already.

On Newcastle auction I am waiting on a check, but I know Jamie has her hands full juggling kids & she will get it out as soon as she can. You can PM modernman.

Spent the AM in the garden. Picked 1 eggplant & lots of tomatoes are almost ready. Squash will be picked tomorrow. Darn squash bugs are already beating me down. Plus cucumber Beatles & grasshoppers. We have replanted so much this yr!!!! I don't see getting half the return on the garden as I did last yr. partly my fault-- I let the kids be in charge & took a back seat. However I can't stand by & look at the madness anymore!!!! Time for me to interven.

Chickens are panting as they are chasing grasshoppers. Poor things are not smart enough to stay in the shade. At least guineas will seek shade! Keets are hatching today, keeping an eye out for broody hens to raise up some keets for us & I offered a neighbor a broody to hatch some for her. The keets raised by hens last yr to into the coop & lay eggs in nest box. Best behaved guineas ever!!!!!

Everyone drink lots of water & stay out of the sun if possible. Make sure your birds have twice the water as usual!

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

Retired Army wife - the guy who bales our hay would be happy to take your birds. I will be in Lawton tomorrow - or sometime this weekend. If no one else has offered to take your birds, I will be happy to pick them up & drop them off. Just lmk if you still need a home for them. He has a coop already.

On Newcastle auction I am waiting on a check, but I know Jamie has her hands full juggling kids & she will get it out as soon as she can. You can PM modernman.

Spent the AM in the garden. Picked 1 eggplant & lots of tomatoes are almost ready. Squash will be picked tomorrow. Darn squash bugs are already beating me down. Plus cucumber Beatles & grasshoppers. We have replanted so much this yr!!!! I don't see getting half the return on the garden as I did last yr. partly my fault-- I let the kids be in charge & took a back seat. However I can't stand by & look at the madness anymore!!!! Time for me to interven.

Chickens are panting as they are chasing grasshoppers. Poor things are not smart enough to stay in the shade. At least guineas will seek shade! Keets are hatching today, keeping an eye out for broody hens to raise up some keets for us & I offered a neighbor a broody to hatch some for her. The keets raised by hens last yr to into the coop & lay eggs in nest box. Best behaved guineas ever!!!!!

Everyone drink lots of water & stay out of the sun if possible. Make sure your birds have twice the water as usual!

That would be perfect! My phone number is (580)678-4796 If I don't answer just leave a message and I will call back right away probably.

 

[NanaKat]

Boy howdy it is HOT outside! I agree with Christy...lots of water!

We spent 4 hours this morning on the second water gap on the lease in Paden. Had to cut big logs into manageable pieces and pull limbs and debris downstream out of the way. Then above the creek we replaced about 135 feet of the 7 wire fence that was ripped out by the 11 inch rains that flooded the creeks. Then we ran seven 16 foot old cattle panels between the banks to keep the cows from going to the neighbors property by way of the creek. From the top of the banks to the bottom of the creeks is 15 feet so it was like running two fences. That also let's you know how much water was running thru that creek at the height of the flood stage.
The Lincoln county crew came out and pulled two trees out from the bridge underpass on our gravel road by our Prague property. One tree was a full cottonwood that had a 3 foot diameter trunk and the other was a red oak with a trunk diameter of 2 feet. They had to cut off the limbs and roots and then hoist the trunks from under the bridge with a back hoe and a bulldozer. Deer Creek was out of its banks at the bridge and the rushing waters took down much of the banks toppling trees like dominoes.
Lots of firewood.
We had two trees on the Meeker property that were zapped by lightening. Both lost strips of bark from top to bottom and are going to die. So after the boys bale hay, finish the last water gap, move the herd back to the Paden lease, we will begin cutting those two trees down along with two other trees that the drought killed. Those trees are blackjack and will make good firewood for one of our elderly neighbors.

We have the swamp cooler running during the hottest hours of the day in the hen house and brooder room. The geese have decided the ground under the feed truck is a great place to park.

 

[ceocka]

Oh my it is so hot outside! I want last weeks weather back. And even the week before that. This is just miserable. Stay cool everyone!

 

[Jeansrie]

The start of our backyard coop!

 

[Kassaundra]

The start of our backyard coop!

Great start!

 

[our 5acre farm]

Its definitely hot. I just out of Wal-Mart. I got a small window unit for my brooder room

 

[ceocka]

The start of our backyard coop!

Nice! It looks great. My house is next right! Lol

 

[Kassaundra]

Looks like I'm going to give up on my broody hatching anything. The eggs were due to hatch on Mon two tried to hatch but died while trying one or both may have got cracked to soon by external forces (either the broody or another hen trying to lay eggs in the nest) since they had liquid yolk on their bellies. None of the others have made a sound that I can tell and certainly no pipping or zipping.

 

[jcatblum]

Sorry about the unsuccessful hatch Kass. Maybe someone local has day old chicks to give your hen.