Texas

[RustedOak]

My daughter is in Waco and she sent me a picture of the snow! My mom is in Athens, close by Tyler and it is just sleeting really bad! So far no forecast for ice here in Houston!

I"m in Waco as well... Low 20s this morning with ice on all the roads. Windchill is 9 degrees. It's not supposed to get above freezing until after 4pm, then another round of sleet and freezing rain after dark. Thank God for coveralls!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

How do I post something from another thread on here to this one?

 

[GaryDean26]

I will be turning in my entry form today for the Fancy Feathers Poultry show that is in Dripping Springs on the 15th of March. I try to limit my entries to a maximum of 4 chickens. I have a pair of Marans I wanted to take and 5-6 Cream Legbars that I would like to take. Hmm??? who to entre and who to leave home?

Is anyone else going to look at the birds or to participate in this show?

 

[bnjrob]

Thank you she made it to work. She said the roads was ok just had to go slow. The only place she had any problems was right there at the hospital going up that hill. I tried to get her to stay home until the sun came up but she would not. And they say us men are hard headed

I don't know about her work policy, but every hospital I've worked at had a policy that weather was not an excuse for being absent from work. Have had hospitals that put their maintenance guys to work driving staff to work - and the staff had to bring clothing with them to plan on staying at the hospital. Had nuns at one hospital put up the female nurses in their dormitory during extra rough driving weather. Glad I do not work at the hospital any more.

 

[bnjrob]

This summer I want to hatch some of my own chicks. I'll be using bantam Cochins and Silkies to hatch. I just can't imagine a heavily feathered Cochin sitting for three weeks in a enclosed nest box in the Texas summer (I'm just north of San Antonio). Last summer it got up to 107F. I'm really worried about this breed and our summers.

I'm setting up a pen of four little Cochin pullets to hatch the eggs. I'm thinking of making a row of four nest boxes that have strong wire for sides, covered in shade cloth with a little front area for them to be able to get access to food and water at all times just outside the nesting area. I will lock them up at night in a little dog-house coop or the nest box coop if they are setting on eggs. This little nest-box coop will be inside one of my parrot aviaries under trees.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Which way are the prevailing winds in the summer? I'm pretty new to the Texas and never paid much attention to the wind direction until this winter.

Generally warm weather winds are from south and west - although we have such squirrely winds in TX that you can get wind from all directions during any season. Winter is north and west winds but even then, we get southern/southeastern winds that don't bring much warmth and so feel a little chilly.

My nest boxes have either the metallic backed air bubble wrap insulation on the walls/ceilings, or they have foam board insulation. It's a pain to cut the insulation so that it goes around the vent holes in the walls, but it helps keep the temp lower in the boxes. And with good air flow in the coop itself, even if the wind is coming from a different direction, any breeze usually can see making the nest box curtains flutter at least a little. During one bad summers when there was not any breeze and it was running about 110+ every day and 95-100 at night, I ran extension cords to the pasture and put small clip on fans in the coop to help circulate air.

 

[hungnguyen]

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Thanks pardner, I work in San Marcos so I will try the TSC near San Marcos first, If not found, in the evening I may have to run up to your neighborhood.

 

[RustedOak]

Nasty weather this moring in CenTex... mid 20s with a windchill around 9 degrees. Lots of ice on the roads and tons of wrecks... We're not supposed to get above freezing until 4pm with another round of sleet and freezing rain this evening... everyone please be safe out there!

 

[TexasLisa]

How do I post something from another thread on here to this one?

Ms Jellybean have you tried 'Copy/paste'? (you highlight what you want to copy and then hit CTRL and 'c' key. Then to put it on this forum, hit CTRL and 'v' key)

Lisa

 

[lovingmyhens]

How are you Lisa?

Melanie

 

[Ms Jellybean]

Ms Jellybean have you tried 'Copy/paste'? (you highlight what you want to copy and then hit CTRL and 'c' key. Then to put it on this forum, hit CTRL and 'v' key)

Lisa

I do know how to do that. I just thought that there was possibly a way to link to another thread.