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augchickenluver said:
I live in DFW!! I have 6 11/2 week old chicks!!
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from Richardson!
 
magpiesing said:
Good day folks

Hope everyone got that much needed rain...but not too much.  We got at least 4 inches, probably more.  My rain gauge blew over so not sure, but my dog's bowl was full to overflow and that's 4in.
Had to do some emergency prep before the storm hit last night at midnight was down staking the tomato plants...good thing, green bean plants are on the ground, but squash, tomatoes and peppers made it ok,

At 2am the storm was intense. Raining torrents.  DH checked on the chickens and found a major leak in the roof.  Birds were getting wet.  One hen was sitting on the roost with water running off her head and down her face, she was right below the leak.  He moved each of them to a different roost so they could sleep dry.  Had water standing inside where it had run past the bulkhead.  Glad we didn't clean out the coop yesterday and my deep litter was working so well, but it is so wet we'll be starting over and taking it back to dirt with new shavings ASAP.  All were ok this morning just didn't get to go out until 10:30 today.

On the bright side...FIL garden looks great...all the beans ,peas and okra have come up and he has some water standing on one end, but no damage.
Chickens will have all kinds of new stuff in their yard to scratch thru and their mulberry limb is touching the ground so they can eat the leaves and berries w/o haveing to jump.

Glad to hear Howard is a hero!
Hope Mr. Nino is well and things are improving for him.

Take care ...Magpie
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The storm last night was very intense, lightning struck so close to our house that the house shook and our circuit breakers popped. One of my neighbor's large tree snapped and fell across the garden. The corn plants are gone, the lettuce, some carrots, bell peppers, and onions got squashed. The rest of the garden is OK, though some tomatoe plants are bent over. We had to cut the tree into sizable chunks to see all the damage. I am so grateful that I put the geese and ducks into the chicken coop, they were much safer and dryer in there. The bedding is a mess, probably because of the geese and duck poop. I will have to completely change it out tomorrow, I'm still clearing storm damage today. Henry is ok, he went to see how much his garden suffered from the storm, he hasn't returned yet so I don't know how bad his garden is damaged.
 

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