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[TJordan]

Well it's settled!!! The new coop will be fixed THIS WEEK!!!! I just got home from church to find the tarp blown off my temp run and 13/26 birds running around with my dog!!! Nope. Not happening. We just shot a possum out of the back tree 2 nights ago. I'm not going to lose more birds. I will not.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well it's settled!!! The new coop will be fixed THIS WEEK!!!! I just got home from church to find the tarp blown off my temp run and 13/26 birds running around with my dog!!! Nope. Not happening. We just shot a possum out of the back tree 2 nights ago. I'm not going to lose more birds. I will not.

Tough go to come home to I hope it all works out well

 

[Sylvester017]

Might be because you chose to live in a desert

Well, East SGV wasn't desert when I moved here 31 yrs ago LOL -- but climate's been changing gradually hotter and hotter each year to where we barely get any rainfall. When I first moved here a heatwave was considered a 2-week stretch. This year summer heatwaves started in early June and still going on now. 85 degrees is a cold spell for us

. About once every 15 to 20 years we'll get El Nino-La Nina fluctuations and have a couple days of intense rain while other winters we get a sprinkly day or two at a time. We had sprinkling rain today but the temp was very warm so ground and pavements dried up the minute the raindrops hit. The hills and mountains behind us are in fire season warning thru November so even little sprinkles will be better than nothing.

Six years ago our backyard was always green without needing any watering - hose was only used to water the raised garden bed veggies.




Truly, I now feel we are in a desert for sure even though we are in the suburbs of L.A. County. This green pop-up canopy is in the same location as the blue pop-up canopy in the above photo. Ground shows what a horrendous water drought we've been in for the last 5 yrs going into year 6 and about 50% of the neighborhood lawns have voluntarily gone un-watered for over 2 yrs . We lost our 3-yr-old Blue Wheaten Ameraucana this summer -- she hated the heat. I won't be getting any more fluffy-downed breeds in the future. We even lost our bouncy 11/2 yr-old Blue Breda this summer and I'm sure the heat was partial blame. Only the wispy no-barbicel Silkie fur tolerates the heat well. Our 5-yr and 6-yr-old Silkies have outlived all the large fowl. I have a new Cuckoo Breda pullet and I'm hoping not to lose her to another unpredictably hot year.

 

[TJordan]

People come up with such ingenious ideas for chicken coops and shelters!!  Thx for sharing.

I have an old child pin that I covered with plywood and converted into an injured bird pin.

 

[Sylvester017]

I have an old child pin that I covered with plywood and converted into an injured bird pin.

Someone posted a whitish crib that was converted -- was that yours? Great idea.

 

[noble]

Where in Alabama? We have a camp in hurts burrow. So dry there I think we going to lose all our plots .

 

[noble]

No rain in 'bama for well over a month? Wow! We haven't seen so much as a sprinkle in 6 months! Our front and back yards have been barren of vegetation since October Halloween LAST YEAR! I have to chop up produce and sprout seeds to give the chickens greenery every day and they forage the plant containers for bugs. At least they have plenty of dirt for dust-baths LOL!

 

[noble]

Nothing fancy, but this is my coop. The tank on the top is an automatic gravity fed watering system ( which I love) waters everything chickens , turkey's, quail pheasants, and rabbits. I planted the grape vine last year for them to eat and mess with. They love that when it blooms. I'm in south louisiana so I worry more about the heat than the cold . They will start free rangeing in spring this flock is only 5.5 months old. My last flock got eaten by my neighbor who had alltimers. All 42 birds. 2 at a time. Lol it suked but he was a funny old coot. He's gone now. So I got a mix of orphingtons, gold and silver laced, polish, and bard rocks. And 3 turkey's in that 20X 20 . The 20X10 has a few ring necks , quail lose and new Zealand Whites in cages,

 

[noble]

I just emptied out the compost so the ground looks bear, and we haven't had rain in a month

 

[Intheswamp]

Where in Alabama? We have a camp in hurts burrow. So dry there I think we going to lose all our plots .

Well, TJ is down toward Mobile (I think) and I'm 50 miles south of Montgomery. Hurtsboro is northeast of Union Springs (east of Montgomery).