Peeps in Europe!

[abpatchy]

WOW! What a night is all I can say! I was awoken at a bit past 03:00 to a whistling window! I have never heard our bedroom window whistle....and so loud! The only one is the entire house! And that was with the roller down! So, I slowly raised the roller to look at what I could see. Lots of rain and trash blowing all over the streets and then I looked down on the coop and run....so far so good! So I dropped the roller, checked the kids and went back to bed. Only to be woken up again by the next wave of the storm....this time it was kicking up a mess! The plastic foil on one side of the coop was ripped open and rain was pelting the run itself. What was once a dry place, looked to be under water! So I bundled myself up and by this time my son was getting up for work. We resecured the foil, checked to hens (they were fine) and went inside. School had been cancelled Sunday evening, so the girls slept in. At 09:00 again the rains started and again, I had to go outside and re-secure the foil, this time with the help of my oldest daughter. And at this time, we let them out of the coop. They did not complain at all that is was so late. The hens came out...drank some fresh water, ate breakfast and marched their happy selves back into the coop. At 16:00, my son came home from work and reported that the foil was again flapping in the wind. This time we tore it all down and put up new foil, but this time we wrapped it all the way around the corner to the run's door. No way for the wind to blow in between the foil sheets this time. But then.....I saw it! The run was leaning at about 11°.....we had to brace it up and now we are praying for a calm night! So far, so good! So my dream of a new run/coop will in fact happen sooner than I planned. Just waiting for the weather to get warm! Which will not be happening soon...they are calling for snow the next three days!

oh boy... you guys were hit pretty hard. I do have to say we are lucky to live in an area where we usually get spared weather trouble. I know you can fix it all again... your girls were not hurt or killed, but I am sorry for all your trouble.

 

[chickengr]

we are expecting your storm to come to us by the end of week. it is not so cold but it is too windy.

 

[abpatchy]

wow! All the way to Greece!!

 

[Papa John59]

oh boy... you guys were hit pretty hard. I do have to say we are lucky to live in an area where we usually get spared weather trouble. I know you can fix it all again... your girls were not hurt or killed, but I am sorry for all your trouble.

Thanks! Yes, we got hit pretty good! The local radio station said that the highest constante wind was 83 km/h for about 17 minutes and the highest reported gust was 102 km/h!
Just waiting for warmer weather so we can start to rebuild. Have to have it finished by the end of March, as we are putting on a new roof and finishing the attic so the kids can entertain up there and not bother me .

 

[AnnaWolf]

Glad to hear evyone is ok. Today it is calm here wit a beautiful sun, we had lots of wind the past few days. I couldn't walk with the dogs yesterday afternoon becouse i was thrown away bij the wind. We live 2 km of the coast, the coastline has been eaten by the waves taking concrete blocks. And saturday we get our next storm.

 

[abpatchy]

Oh wow... sounds like you guys were hit pretty good as well. Makes me absolutely glad that other than a few trees breaking our area was pretty much spared.

@Erba how are the babies doing? Did all of them make it?

Folks! Tomorrow is lockdown for my eggs. OMG!!!
I cannot wait!!! I'll be candeling them beforehand... hope all are well! I feel like a little kid before Christmas!!!

 

[Erba]

how are the babies doing? Did all of them make it?

No not all of them made it, a lot were DIS and one died soon after hatching. So I only got a total of four chicks in the end, and again I think I have two pullets and two cockerels. Bit of a shame, I didn't get more. But the guy I bought the eggs from is not a proper breeder, just has them as a hobby. You win some, you loose some, and that big egg didn't even pip.

I think my chickens are racist, they will let the white pullet eat with them, but the brown one they mob. The older brown hen has established herself as 2nd diva, so she doesn't take the other hens crap. It's really shocking. Maybe when she is older she will stick up for herself like her half sister does. The rooster is the only one who gets on with all of them, although he will shoo the pullets away, if all the older ones haven't eaten yet. They have to know their place..lol

 

[BDutch]

No not all of them made it, a lot were DIS and one died soon after hatching. So I only got a total of four chicks in the end, and again I think I have two pullets and two cockerels. Bit of a shame, I didn't get more. But the guy I bought the eggs from is not a proper breeder, just has them as a hobby. You win some, you loose some, and that big egg didn't even pip.

I think my chickens are racist, they will let the white pullet eat with them, but the brown one they mob. The older brown hen has established herself as 2nd diva, so she doesn't take the other hens crap. It's really shocking. Maybe when she is older she will stick up for herself like her half sister does. The rooster is the only one who gets on with all of them, although he will shoo the pullets away, if all the older ones haven't eaten yet. They have to know their place..lol

A pity it didn’t work out very wel. But 2 pullets out of 4 is not bad at all. I had 5 chicks last year and only one pullet.
And the year before I bought 12 ‘fertile’ eggs. Only 3 hatched. Maybe the reason was it got too warm in the car. It was not the breeding proces because the broodies where committed to the job. Candelling after 8 and again with 12 days to be sure, made me reduce to 4 eggs and one broody.

And for now thumbs up for abpatchy.

 

[Erba]

My little young white pullet, now a hen, just laid her first egg! She's just shy of 18 weeks old. So today I got 3 eggs.

 

[Papa John59]

@Erba so sorry to read about your loss!