***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Elbert Garrett]

Mitzi, it`s 109* here....Hopefully we are seeing the last of this!

Betsy I hope you can get those brown spiders under control, they are wicked!

Before we bought this place we I lived up the hill about 2 miles south, we had about a 20 or so Guineas and they would kill small snakes which was alright with me.....there`s a lot of Copperheads up there.

Here is a picture of a few of my Guineas taken shortly after I moved here, I think these were all hens, I quit seeing any Keets and they slowly disappeared.

 

[MacGuyver]

Good morning folks- keep those birds cool, lost this pullet yesterday to the heat- she had already had one bout with heat stroke, i guess i should have brought her in- sigh




that leaves me with 3 young lf cochins, moved them to the porch so i can keep an eye on them...

Oh no. I'm so sorry.

 

[Ksane]

Elbert-109? already? God how I hate this weather. I honestly never minded it so much until I had birds. Now I'm scared to death of losing them because of it.

i have seen my guineas and ducks and chickens follow a snake, but haven't seen them actually kill a large snake, but have heard they do.
yes mitzi, it seems like its been that kind of year- entirely too many losses- and i can only bring so many in- the seramas have permenant cages in the studio, so when its hot i shift them in, but this last heat wave seems to have been one to much on the little cochin- sigh

I spend a lot of time during the day spraying down pens and birds and refilling water tubs with cold water, I've so had it with this. They keep saying it's supposed to stay under 100 and it never does. I've been locking up ALL the birds in all the pens and yards at night because of the coon or whatever it was that got 3 of them. But I feel so bad shutting their doors when it's so dang hot out.
And Bill hasn't turned his AC on all summer?? I'd melt, I just know I would. I can take the heat outside but I've got to have cold air inside.

 

[NanaKat]

Betsy, I set off those RAID bug bombs in the house and it killed spiders, bugs and the fleas the dogs carried in. Of course that means no pets etc in the house until it airs out.

This heat is horrid! Trying to water the garden and keep the birds cool too. Found a clutch of eggs yesterday. When I cracked some open to see how old they were, they were already incubating from the heat...about day 3 - 4.

 

[erinszoo]

Well, I guess some days I just need to give up and go with the flow. The girls have stubbornly refused to use all but one nest box since we moved their house. We've tried everything to get them to use the other nests to no avail. So this weekend, since it's soooo hot out, everyone's been hanging out in their house (we put a window ac unit in there - figured we were spending the money on water to mist them which made a huge mess or money to run the ac unit with a whole lot less mess) and the girls decided they no longer wanted to use any of the nests and built two of their own behind the trash can that we keep their feed in. Oh well, I guess they're still laying for me so I won't complain.

Ready for the cool weather again. This is just too much.

 

[artsyrobin]

i thought i'd get through the summer without losing any to the heat- seems there are always one or two... yes mitzi, the heat wasn't a big worry till chickens entered our lives- but having to go out periodically and check them- in some cases bring them in, or dunk them in buckets of water- fill their mud holes- which is making the flies evern worse

i gave up on telling my girls which box to use... they have their preference, and none are in the coop, once the weather cools down, they won't be able to get to them so will have to pick a new favorite

olivia managed to hatch these out- they are in the bathroom tub, and seem to be doing ok, she was letting them dry out when they were hatching, so i put them in the bator to finish and dry, then gave them back


i am hoping the white one stays white- and is a girl!

 

[Oakieridge]

Elbert-109? already? God how I hate this weather. I honestly never minded it so much until I had birds. Now I'm scared to death of losing them because of it.

I know I am praying I get home to my birds to find them all doing okay. Today was the first day of this awefull heat that no one was there to check on them all day. Kurt made sure all their waterers were full and they were all let out into their yards but the kids had co-op classes and I had to work. So hopefully I get home and find them all safe in this heat.

Robin so to hear of another one dying from this aweful heat!

 

[erinszoo]

i gave up on telling my girls which box to use... they have their preference, and none are in the coop, once the weather cools down, they won't be able to get to them so will have to pick a new favorite

olivia managed to hatch these out- they are in the bathroom tub, and seem to be doing ok, she was letting them dry out when they were hatching, so i put them in the bator to finish and dry, then gave them back


i am hoping the white one stays white- and is a girl!

They're so cute. I wish my broody would go broody again. I'm ready for some new babies around here! Did she brood them in the nest or in the tub? Or did you just move her into the tub with them after they hatched?

 

[BetsyOK]

Robin, so sorry to read of your recent losses. The special ones are the hardest to lose, and you work so hard to give them a good life.

 

[artsyrobin]

thanks betsy- yeah it rips my heart every time- remember the one with the bad leg? once he got bigger his hips wouldn't hold him, so he has a sling he sits in and has a silky buddy-

erin- she decided to go broody on a shelf, so i let her be - fenced her in, she would hop down for some 'me' time every afternoon- well, when they started pipping, i moved them inside for safety- thats when she decided they could hatch without her sitting them- so i put them in the bater to finish up- she is an odd mama, last time she kept losing the chicks, they'd go off on their own and she'd forget for a bit what she should be doing- so this time they will have a pen on the porch, once it cools down...

i don't do hot well.... and sadly my cochins don't like it either- but the faverolles seem to handle it fine...and one of the buff orp girls walks around complaining all day about the heat- weirdest thing- almost sounds like a dianosaur