***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Oceanseve]

this is how you keep cool. lol

aw what a cutie! What breed is he?


Bill - I was hoping you'd give me feed back on my idea Do you think as long as it's glued away from the areas of new growth it'll be okay?

Mitzi - I believe it I'm staying indoors today! It's a good thing I'm not home since DH has been working on the flooring (uses a neurotoxic glue) cause we're still waiting on our second air conditioner to be installed. I don't want to know how hot it's going to get in my house today!

 

[Oakieridge]

Morning all, hope everyone has gotten outside chores done already because it is already hot, hot, hot out there. Got Kurt up at 6 this morning to water and feed he just couldn't understand why I made him get up that early. Hopefully the birds do okay today I worry about them so much when I am gone to work and they are in the care of a 15 year old that I still have to remind to shower let alone take care of my babies. Got to run to the feed store on my lunch and pick up chick feed again, I will be glad when I don't have any on chick starter anymore. i am also going to get some oats to ferment for them. Anyone had a particular kind they get for their birds? I am also going to get some electrolyte mix, I know I can mix my own but I won't have time to do that tonight so going to buy it in powder form. Is it cheaper to get the kind for cattle or go to walmart and by the pedialyte? I sure don't envy hubby having to sit out in this heat today. I can see him and Matthew will have to trade off often so they can take turns getting in the AC today.

Oh and picked my first two tomatos out of the garden last night! I can't wait to get enough to can some I have tons of green ones on but the squash bugs are eating them! I may have to go pick up some seven dust I don't want to put chemicals in my garden but I don't have time to be out there hand picking bugs off plants. But I had at least a half dozen tomatoes 1/2 eaten with squash bugs on them, grrrr.

Well off to get some real work done in the AC glad I only have to work outside for work one day a year (although that is this weekend, lol).

 

[our 5acre farm]

aw what a cutie! What breed is he?


Bill - I was hoping you'd give me feed back on my idea Do you think as long as it's glued away from the areas of new growth it'll be okay?

Mitzi - I believe it I'm staying indoors today! It's a good thing I'm not home since DH has been working on the flooring (uses a neurotoxic glue) cause we're still waiting on our second air conditioner to be installed. I don't want to know how hot it's going to get in my house today!

she is a duroc

 

[our 5acre farm]

Hi every one sorry haven't been on in a while been working and auctioning and building pens and on the chicken hunt for other people. I went to the auction in Blanchard and when I got home I drove past the house and strait to the quarantine pen to use my headlights so I could see 20 feet away is my brooder almost walked passed it the I saw it a 6 foot black snake hanging on the front of my brooder but he didn't get my babbies I put hardware cloth on the brooder when built so yea but creeped me out called hubby to come shoot it

get anything good at the auction?

 

[MacGuyver]

My husband caught the last wayward guinea for me this morning! We don't know where it was last night, but it showed up again this morning. He trapped it in a big dog crate, and then I went out with a net and transferred it into the big coop with the others. No losses from heat yesterday. Everyone has fresh water so I guess we're as ready as we'll ever be. I made a couple of big feeders for my coop. Cut down a 5 gallon bucket till it was just about six - eight inches tall, then I screwed it to a piece of board so they couldn't tip it over. I'll get pictures later. Gotta work inside today because it's just too stinkin' hot.

 

[Kassaundra]

On a break, been working in the garden, watering, harvesting, killing squash bugs.

 

[erinszoo]

Hot hot hot hot hot ... I know my birds survived last summer in the heat but I'm still worried about them. The turkeys are panting their heads off. We have ice bottles for them and a mister set up so that it sprays on the ducks and a corner of the run which they seemed to like yesterday. Was wondering what everyone else does to keep their birds cooler? We got the garden weeded and fertilized yesterday before the heat set in but had to bring the rabbits in yesterday afternoon. Planning on bringing them back in again today. They just can't cope with this amount of heat.

Our crazy neighbors built a fence down the middle of our shared driveway last month and even though state law forbids them from doing it, we can't get the police or city code enforcement to do anything about it. They keep claiming it's not shared even though two years ago they called the police on us saying we were parking on it and we couldn't because it was a shared driveway. Like I said, they're crazy. It's been a pain in the butt BUT we're beginning to think maybe it's a good thing (except for all the work involved) because we are going to move the driveway to the back of the property, turn part of the garage into the animal house complete with an a/c thus eliminating the need to build a coop or rabbit pen again or bring them in the house or freeze ice bottles all the time, and just to prove our poo is smellier than anything the neighbors can dish out we're moving the compost heaps to the old shared driveway where they have a nice view and smell of it. Two can play this game. We'll have a better driveway, the chickens will get more yard space and a better house, we'll get a bigger compost area, and in the end we won't have to even see the neighbors.

 

[Kassaundra]

My attempts at keeping my chickens cool, is a raised coop (so they can get under), complete hardware cloth walls on the East and West walls for breeze through the coop, plenty of places of shade in the yard, several water stations big enough for them to stand in scattered around the yard, and actively choosing less heavily feathered chickens, fermenting their food for added moisture.

 

[erinszoo]

My attempts at keeping my chickens cool, is a raised coop (so they can get under), complete hardware cloth walls on the East and West walls for breeze through the coop, plenty of places of shade in the yard, several water stations big enough for them to stand in scattered around the yard, and actively choosing less heavily feathered chickens, fermenting their food for added moisture.

Thanks. We built our coop with open sides on east and west but the crazy neighbors blocked the entire east side with sheet metal so even though there is about a foot of space between the coop and their wall of junk we don't get much breeze through there. Their entire yard is shaded for most of the day by a giant pecan tree but by late afternoon it's almost in full sun. I guess I could hang a tarp on the west in the afternoon to help with shade. I have noticed that they are emptying four gallons of water almost three times a day recently. Guess I"m going to have to get a couple of more big waterers for them.

 

[our 5acre farm]

all my coops are built under shade trees