Texas

[kajira]

Wilted is not the word. I feel like I start melting every time I go outside. Hottest since they began keeping records from what I hear on the news. Triple digits day after day...I am amazed at the resiliency of my birds. Egg production is almost at a stand still but still getting 4-5 a day from the chickens. Ducks are down to 8-10 a day.

3 of our roosters most likely died of heat stroke down here on the border. - We have a wading pool, spray them down daily and use ice blocks.. .but the heavier birds just don't do well in this heat! It's never been this hot before!!!
Our smaller birds are hanging in there and I only have 4 hens, and I get at least 2 eggs a day.

 

[hungnguyen]

Do I even say it..., I am 60. How did I get to that age??? Yes, in my mind I was running fast. It's amazing how we picture ourselves, isn't it?

You made me remembering of my daddy. Back in the 90s when camcorder and VCR tape started to become popular. After seeing himself walking in the video clip, he said "wow, I am old. I didn't see that in previous (still) pictures".

He took me to US in 1975. Not too long before that, when US had the famous Woodstock event (1969), in Vietnam they duplicated and conducted a big Hippie music concert a year later. He took me there to enjoy the Hippie time. I remember listening to a singer singing "Have you ever seen the rain". Halfway in the song, rain poured down heavily to stop the concert.

Lisa dear, did you attend the Woodstock ... I can't find your pictures in the Woodstock collection

 

[Rustys Girls]

I'm in Texas. Near San Antonio.

Then you know where Tilden is, McMullen County. And yes it's HOT.

 

[kajira]

Then you know where Tilden is, McMullen County. And yes it's HOT.

I don't know where the counties Are - I only know San Antonio because I had a baby in the nicu there, for 5 1/2 months a couple years ago. I'm still up there all the time for specialists and doctors appointments. so I know where hospitals, restaurants, and things like the African safari, river walk, and zoo is.

 

[ChicKat]

That is the cycle of life on the farm. One critter feeds others and the world stays pretty clean.

I learned a few years ago that my days of running are over. I am 68 and was running to chase a feral dog away from our birds. My body was not running as fast as my mind and I fell flat on my face. My dogs had a good time with that, everyone of them came running to play and lick, guess they thought I was doing it for them. I have learned how to walk pretty fast now though.

Same with me -- every time I fall -- my dog is right there licking my face like there is no tomorrow. Dogs are so sweet about 'worrying' -- Funny too if I see a snake and squwak or scream - or even if I have sneezing fits she is right there to make sure I'm okay.

Do I even say it..., I am 60. How did I get to that age??? Yes, in my mind I was running fast. It's amazing how we picture ourselves, isn't it?

Here's another really amazing thing I find about now being old -- time goes SO fast. tried to work out a formula -- a day seems like an hour, a week seems like 2-days, a month seems like a week and what??? it's already Christmas? how's that possible. LOL -- But as far as time going fast -- I am so looking forward for mid-September because I feel by that time the heat will be gone -- really a matter of about a month -- if we and our flocks can just hold on (and the plants in the pots that seem to struggle...)

 

[ChicKat]

Yes, I still think of myself as a mid-20's with a 28 inch waist and lots of energy. Then I look in the mirror...I think someone hung one of those carnival distortion mirrors in my house. And the energy factor, I think of that and get tired so I take a nap. One thing though...after 68 years or more you have really earned it all...I lived long enough to be an ornery old man and try to do my best to be one.

That's so true!! Seems like we are looking at life out of our 18-year-old eyes sometimes. The interior is the same mentally
-- and then that mirror thing....

The nap thing is the best -- one of the VERY best things about being retired.... just do it when the heat is highest and call it siesta-- such cultural brilliance.

 

[ChicKat]

I don't know where the counties Are - I only know San Antonio because I had a baby in the nicu there, for 5 1/2 months a couple years ago. I'm still up there all the time for specialists and doctors appointments. so I know where hospitals, restaurants, and things like the African safari, river walk, and zoo is.

San Antonio is a really nice city!

 

[jtn42248]

San Antonio is a really nice city!

Don't want to start anything here but San Antonio is my favorite large Texas city. Austin is nice but yuppy pretentious, Dallas/Ft Worth has sites and attractions but some of the worst highways I have ever driven on. San Antonio is fun with fun and friendly people, lots to do and see and, you can still park downtown and walk around.

 

[newchickjess]

At the risk of sounding stupid, is it okay to eat the eggs from my girls since they have fowl pox?

 

[NinasNest]

went to check for eggs and found this ...

Not sure if it's a no brainier but this isn't safe to eat right? The shell is cracked but nothing's leaking..
This is the second time this has happened, first time I thought my daughter cracked it

. The 2 girls that are laying move all the shavings away to lay, I've got plenty in there but they make a little circle and lay in it

.. Should I try hay?