Texas

[electrycmonk]

I’ll check in some of the local/TX groups I’m in on FB and see if there’s anyone making a concerted effort for this. There’s some people in Houston that build coops and are starting a new chicken retail space that have been doing some stuff locally with city of Houston to lobby. I’ll reach out to them, too, and will report back anything I find out.

As a technical detail we have several kids & live on a couple acres "just outside" city limits and have a few friends "inside" city limits that have enjoyed their flocks of greater than 6 hens with more than 1 kid households.

I'm not sure how realistic it would be to consider a semi-formal poll to fine a higher number based on egg production and family sizes around Texas.

I ignorantly think the number might end up around 10-12?

 

[RUNuts]

As a technical detail we have several kids & live on a couple acres "just outside" city limits and have a few friends "inside" city limits that have enjoyed their flocks of greater than 6 hens with more than 1 kid households.

I'm not sure how realistic it would be to consider a semi-formal poll to fine a higher number based on egg production and family sizes around Texas.

I ignorantly think the number might end up around 10-12?

I misspoke. I think, and haven't looked up the latest proposed bill, that the 6 number was the minimum protected and any upper limit was left up to local government. Egg requirements will vary with dietary preferences. Therefore, for minimum protected, pick a number.

I should go do my homework and read the bill.

To your point, the chickens lay at a different rate, therefore for minimum production, you will need some factor over that. I have 13 layers and getting 5-11 eggs per day. Then during molt, that will drop below 5 per day. This ain't the grocery store and you are not guaranteed to have fresh eggs daily. Couple that with high production breeds living less than 3 years and requiring replacements. But I am focused on egg production, not "I have chickens". To each, their own.

 

[jolenesdad]

I misspoke. I think, and haven't looked up the latest proposed bill, that the 6 number was the minimum protected and any upper limit was left up to local government. Egg requirements will vary with dietary preferences. Therefore, for minimum protected, pick a number.

I should go do my homework and read the bill.

To your point, the chickens lay at a different rate, therefore for minimum production, you will need some factor over that. I have 13 layers and getting 5-11 eggs per day. Then during molt, that will drop below 5 per day. This ain't the grocery store and you are not guaranteed to have fresh eggs daily. Couple that with high production breeds living less than 3 years and requiring replacements. But I am focused on egg production, not "I have chickens". To each, their own.

Mmmmmm. Eggs.

I’m thinking of freezing scrambled eggs and salt curing yolks for the winter this year. I only have three hens I kept from all of this years hatches that won’t molt this year.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Did I miss the HB or SB number here? That info would make it easier to research.

 

[jolenesdad]

Did I miss the HB or SB number here? That info would make it easier to research.

Our legislature isn’t in session this year right? So I doubt there’s a new one...the one that failed in the senate is SB86. I don’t know tbe one that passed the house off hand.

I’m pretty sure this has been an annual thing since 2010 or so. It’s definitely gaining traction but I’m not 100% confident anything will happen. TX has some of the most stringent rules that protect HOAs and I cannot imagine those lobbying forces allowing anything to weaken that....

 

[AllenK RGV]

Our legislature isn’t in session this year right? So I doubt there’s a new one...the one that failed in the senate is SB86. I don’t know tbe one that passed the house off hand.

I’m pretty sure this has been an annual thing since 2010 or so. It’s definitely gaining traction but I’m not 100% confident anything will happen. TX has some of the most stringent rules that protect HOAs and I cannot imagine those lobbying forces allowing anything to weaken that....

Ty for the information. I'll research it much better now and get to asking Eddie Luciano Jr of S27 about it and if he ever cosponsored. The primaries are already over and he narrowly won his primary run-off this year. I bet he wants to hear from me about why that was.

https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/SB86/2019

He didn't raise an eyebrow over it. We will be talking. September is usually our Valley Environmental summit and he always shows for that(if covid hasn't cancled it). I get 3 minutes of face time then with him usually probably more if I open up my checkbook or place it on the table pen in hand. I'm no bigwig but I'll share with him why I voted for his opponent.

 

[electrycmonk]

@AllenK RGV do you off hand know any other "WX-nerds" here in BYC?

I've been thinking about this years hurricane season.

I wonder if my imagination will come to fruition?

I've had wierd images and dreams of late.

#9 is named and drenches FL something fierce(just shy of a actual hurricane)

#10 ?
#11 ?

What are your thoughts & feelings? Feel like any Armchair quarterbacking?

 

[AllenK RGV]

@AllenK RGV do you off hand know any other "WX-nerds" here in BYC?

I've been thinking about this years hurricane season.

I wonder if my imagination will come to fruition?

I've had wierd images and dreams of late.

#9 is named and drenches FL something fierce(just shy of a actual hurricane)

#10 ?
#11 ?

What are your thoughts & feelings? Feel like any Armchair quarterbacking?

My best guess comes from here: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/

So I had a rude wakeup this morning DW turned off the ceiling fan last night in the living room and the new rescue Malinois finally saw a change in his environment at 4:45AM and alerted us to the fact. I went to sleep early last night and woke to a horrible amount of what looks like chicken feed vomit from a dog too. Still getting up the courage to address that before she is awake. It was too liquid for me to address on my first attempt.

Later Edit: @electrycmonk I think you and I are about it(nerd level 10) and for me it is pretty much all about the ocean going storms. You can follow Mike's on FB if you want to take a deeper dive.

 

[Matejka]

Hello I live about 3 hours north of Houston in the tiny town of Joaquin. I'm on my second group of ladies as I call them my daughter's dog enjoyed my first when she got off her chain. To be honest I normally don't like chickens but I am enjoying spoiling my girls. They get all kinds of stuff from my garden.

Hi! Welcome! Chickens seem to grow on us. Mine are spoilt rotten. I am about 1 1/2 hrs North of Houston, Lyons, near lake Somerville and Bryan/College Station. Stay cool.

 

[electrycmonk]

Dude. Pet stomach cleansing is never fun especially when woken up to help with the aftermath.... My Better-half is also the one with a inability to clean that stuff up....

As for g33kie WX data..... Here's some stuff to chew on.... A few are showing what it used to look like, a few look neat, some updated standbys still exist & well.... More links of curiosity:


One last attempt at the old site:

Weather.unisys.com & vice versa

Need up with this spiral of sites & blogs

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=http://unisys.weather.com/&t=fpas&ia=weather

http://www.csun.edu/~hmc60533/CSUN_103/weather_exercises/103_S2004_skewT_sounding_explanation.htm

https://serc.carleton.edu/resources/24021.html

And it's link to here:
http://web.archive.org/web/collections/*/weather.unisys.com

This one from 2017:
https://blogs.unisys.com/onpoint/unisys-weather-information-and-technology-solutions/

This thread in a WX forum from 2019:
http://storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=120211

And some raw data sites I recognize:
https://www.weather.gov/oun/sfcmaps
https://www.weather.gov/
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/Data_Storm.html
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/DataByYearandStorm.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_hurricane
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane_season
https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/#map=4/32/-80
https://www.nws.noaa.gov/sat_loop.php?image=vis&hours=12
https://meteograms.com/#/51.508,-0.125,2/48/

You have already linked here before as well:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/marine/forecast/

And of course my lamenting of the loss, per say of this site that merged into WX underground....
https://www.wunderground.com/intellicast

This site will die next year 2021:
https://www.goes.noaa.gov/nhem/nhem-nwpac-wv.html


https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/index.php

I think I'll try testing these for user friendly status:
https://weatherstreet.com/states/gfsx-10-day-forecast.htm
https://www.topsiteslike.com/weather.unisys.com/
https://vortex.plymouth.edu/tropical.html
http://www.moreweather.com/models/purdue.html


This is a 4.9GB zip file!
http://www.weatherwatchers.org/wxmaps/unisys/

And this old standby still exists:
https://www.accuweather.com/
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane