South Carolina

[Joycats]

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So sorry, I lost a RIR hen today.

Just so you'll know, I have some young RIR roos if you need another one. You are welcome to one.

 

[Joycats]

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Yancy, PumPum always makes me smile! I just love her. She's making me really want a solid white polish.

 

[Joycats]

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Thank you, Joy and everyone who gave responses over my car. Most everyone I tell about it says I will probably get it back. But would I want it back now? DD says they are probably doing donuts with it! Good luck there! It is a luxury car (sorta), not a sports car. You can eat donuts in it but not do any!

Ha!Ha! They did get fooled with the amount of gas. It was less than a quarter of a tank and DH never puts any in it so I am sure it was about empty. Might have gotten them 20 miles as that is how far is to home so DH would have brought it back on empty, as usual. He got his rear out of bed this morning and fixed his flat tire though because he knew better than to ask to drive my truck!

It felt cooler here while I was finishing chores. I hope it was nicer at your house. A spitting of rain right at dark but nothing more.

Amy - that is really strange. Your car was stolen last night and I had people in my driveway screeching tires at midnight last night. It was kinda scary, they blocked my driveway for a while, then screeched their tires for awhile, then did about a 15 point turn around and opened all the doors with everyone in the car getting out and running around the car, then they screeched the tires all the way out my road. All the while I'm standing on the porch (with a shotgun) watching them. Do ya think it mighta been your car?

It was dark and I couldn't see what color or kind the car was, but I don't think it was yours. I'm glad now that I didn't shoot at them, just in case it was yours and you get it back. Crazy people are always trespassing here and it really ticks me off. Makes me want to let my really big dogs run loose for awhile. By the way, the electric fence is really working for the dogs. First thing that has actually gotten their attention. Dixie is investigating that fence, she just cannot understand what has happened to it. It's too funny to watch her. Georgia wants no part of it and makes sure not to walk too close. And they've both stopped jumping on me!

They seem to be saying "sorry, can we go back to the way things were".

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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How terrible! I hope everyone is okay and she finds all the birds!

I saw the storms going down that way but we got nothing here but some breezes.
Her coops looked to be pretty heavy. It must have been one dickens of a storm to knock anything over. Poor little Silkies are defenseless in the best of weather. I can't imagine them in a bad storm!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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It would be really weird if it was my car and they found the way over to your house. I know the directions to your house were not in it and even so the way I write directions no one could follow them anyhow.

But that would be so strange. Although you said screeching the tires.....could not be my car. It doesn't have the power, I don't think.
And you could have shot it. DD and I were talking and if we do get it back we do not think we want to keep it. I will probably sell it and buy a smaller one. I had meant to sell it for a long time because it was so big but knowing it was my parents' car made me hang on to it. Kinda silly when my house is full of their stuff. Every time I put a chicken in that car I figured they were looking down from Heaven and gasping over it!

They were not animal people and I did not pamper the car nearly as much as Dad did. I am getting sentimental in my old age!

 

[Billyj]

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Is she Ok. Has anyone heard. I hope so.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I think Susanne and family live down the road a ways from the farm so health wise they are probably okay but she is devastated, I am sure, with damage done to her coops and birds. No doubt they are out trying to fix everything and find everyone and rearrange animals so fences can be repaired. We will just have to wait until she can find time to write in and let us know. Hopefully she will realize our thoughts and prayers are with her.

I try to keep my shed storage room available for any extra birds I may have to put in there in case of anything happening to a pen. Remember back in the spring we had a storm that flipped over one of my dog pens with birds inside. I had to scramble to find a place to put them. Mostly I know we all stay full to the brim and if something happens we spend time trying to figure out what to do with all the birds while the pen is being repaired. There is no way I can have an empty pen! My new one should be ready today but already I know I will be putting Silkies in it! Nope, never an empty pen.

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

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Darn! Sorry to hear that!

I lost a big healthy Marans hen. She was great this morning when I fed and dumped old water, refilled with fresh cold water and she was eating, drinking and acting fine. Went back later in the heat of the day with ice and she was dead, laying under the coop in the shade. Open air dog pens do not always help, I suppose. I think she was a bit over weight so that may have been a problem.
Everyone else in that pen seems fine, too. I begged them to be okay. I am now so scared every time one pants!

Thanks everyone. But Amy, I know how you feel about the panting! But I just make myself think if the good Lord has other plans for my birds I gotta live with it. I found him between the feeder and waterer on his back...quite sad. To make it worse, I guess, is that I don't think he had been gone for too long when I found him. He was in The Galldom House with the other Reds. So far everyone else seems fine..at least for now.

That sucks to hear about Suzy-Q. She's only about an hour north of me. We (Augusta GA/Aiken SC area) got it after it passed her place. We got lucky here at my place, no damage, just high winds and lots of that wet stuff....don't see it much

 

[huckleberryfarm]

Hey, all! Yesterday was a doozy. My 6-yr old daughter and I were there by ourselves in the stupid singlewide. Not safe. It came out of nowhere. I had a very beautiful playhouse I was using as a garden shed. It had 10 50 lb bags of food in it plus all my tools and stuff. Completely tossed and in a million pieces. The 10 x 10 coop with my babies in it was thrown over the pasture and into the next pasture where it broke into a ton of pieces. Some of the babies actually survived. They were all over the pasture. I found a bunch dead. One was alive but was missing its wing. I'm still missing about 20 babies. The tractor with my seramas blew away and smashed. I found the rooster dead but managed to locate two of the four hens. And another showed up right before we left. I haven't been out there yet today so I hope the other one shows up. One of our other coops (6 x 8 playhouse) somehow ended up with the front door facing the sky and the roof facing where the front used to be. It must have gotten lifted up and flipped backwards. Most of my chickens survived. I did find my beautiful blue Marans hen dead in the coop. Not sure how that happened unless she was on a roost and hit the wall.

The worst thing is that this is the 3rd time in less than a year that we've been hit with this kind of wind. Our farm is 110-acres of cleared land and it sits up high. There must be something about the way it's positioned that causes wind shears like that. No one else around me has any damage. I could rebuild the coops but what's the point. If it can toss a 1000 lb coop like nothing, I hesitate to do it. We've been living out there this summer in the singlewide and loving it. I'm not doing that anymore. It's not safe. I've dodged a bullet three times now. There's no where to go in case of bad weather. I love my chickens and love living on a farm. I'm not sure now this is the place I want to build. Maybe I'll feel differently later.

On a positive note, my 6-yr old was such a trooper. Climbing fences, picking up chickens, running around and doing whatever she could. And the whole time she was shivering in fear. The storms just kept coming. She never once complained or cried. My son was at a friend's house which is probably good because he has the tender heart for the chickens. Our farm kitty was on the back deck when it hit and I couldn't find her anywhere. I hope she's there this morning when we get there. Every run is falling apart. We secured what we could and I'm just hoping no predator showed up and the chickens stayed where they know. Every coop is damaged. It's just a mess.

The remains of my garden shed.

This is the coop my lavender silkies were in. The front door ended facing up and there were still chickens inside. Somehow Cole climbed down in there and got them out. We righted the coop with the tractor but it's in the wrong place and stuck. Have to figure out what to do with that one.

This is where the 10 x 10 coop with my babies used to be. I still can't believe it just blew away. That thing was big and heavy!

Found part of the baby coop a pasture away, down a hill and in the pond. There's stuff everywhere.

This is what's left of the tractor my seramas were in. I think the hens were up in the top like always and the rooster was in the run. Saved their lives.... at least three of them.

 

[emptynester]

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I am simply amazed any survived, and am so glad you and your daughter are ok!! My prayers are with you and your family