Texas

[NickyPick]

Friday's rain results. This was in Caldwell, on hwy 36. Image from fb, but we were there shortly before water covered road.
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Dang! I lived in Snook during college and I did most of my grocery shopping in Caldwell instead of College Station.

We only got 2.5 inches yesterday, but north of us got hammered. So, a big chunk of the FM road we use to get to town washed away at the Winters Bayou crossing. Today was also supposed to be less than 30%, but the storm that just went through, that looked like it was going to go north of us, just dumped 2 inches on us. The road I'm on is horrible. I'm glad we have a truck, because my car is trapped until that trench at the end of my driveway at the road gets fixed. There are no true ditches here, so some properties just have their run off go straight down their driveways to the road, where it runs downhill super fast and takes half the road base with it.

 

[Matejka]

Dang! I lived in Snook during college and I did most of my grocery shopping in Caldwell instead of College Station.

We only got 2.5 inches yesterday, but north of us got hammered. So, a big chunk of the FM road we use to get to town washed away at the Winters Bayou crossing. Today was also supposed to be less than 30%, but the storm that just went through, that looked like it was going to go north of us, just dumped 2 inches on us. The road I'm on is horrible. I'm glad we have a truck, because my car is trapped until that trench at the end of my driveway at the road gets fixed. There are no true ditches here, so some properties just have their run off go straight down their driveways to the road, where it runs downhill super fast and takes half the road base with it.

I live on 60, outside Lyons, going towards Snook.

 

[oldhen2345]

Laugh all ya want, my “surgery suite” is a whitewash of lime mix. With a triple bath of all cracks and crannies for mites over the last month...... kept everyone out in run and backyard while it “aired out”....

Mite free (fingers crossed) it appears that is the outcome.
Yuppers.
Yes, me too- something fierce...(my flea story I think is listed here somewhere back several weeks.
Returned the red girls from hospital crate to main flock yesterday and during same time as the spraying of the coop; discovered one hen had a very sore leg and would limp where ever she walked. So in the medical crate she went yesterday. Definitely has a hip problem.

i use Poultry Mite and Lice spray on the girls twice a year and spray the coop and run as well. Yearly, I open up the coop to air out and soak everything down with Oxine

 

[oldhen2345]

In ya'lls opinion, how late in the year is too late to hatch chick's around here? We just got here, and I'm not able to start building a coop or anything for a little bit, so just trying to understand the climate and work on garden prep for a little while.

I usually get chicks in September- they are ready to go outside by the time it gets cold and come spring, they are ready to lay.

 

[oldhen2345]

No a/c here. Thank goodness it's been a mild spring. Still have a blanket on the bed.

Same here. Have not turned on the AC yet. This IS Texas- you never know what to expect

 

[oldhen2345]

Rained here every single day for over a week. The yard looks like a pond. A tree branch fell in the chicken yard- Ima let them play with it for awhile. Never thought I would get tired of blessed rain, but here we are.

 

[NickyPick]

I live on 60, outside Lyons, going towards Snook.

Cool. I remember those years fondly. Rented a tiny mobile home on 5 acres in a subdivision off of FM 3058, so I could have my horses with me. There was a small pond on the property and a neighbor that liked to hang out on his porch nude when the wife went to town. (probably got his giggles with me being a college woman next door). A friend of mind brought out some pistols and we did some can shooting one day and that was the end of the nudity. haha. The only two things I did not like were the black gumbo mud, and the iron/sulfur in the water. I went through a water filter every two weeks on that well.

 

[Matejka]

Yeah! My daughter has a house in beaver creek. Her water is horrible. The subdivision is working on a community well water system. I live between 3058 and Lyons-good water.

 

[NickyPick]

Yeah! My daughter has a house in beaver creek. Her water is horrible. The subdivision is working on a community well water system. I live between 3058 and Lyons-good water.

So cool. Beaver Creek was the subdivision I was in!!! I was there between 1989-1991. There was an awesome vet on 3058. I am totally blanking on the name, but I remember I really liked her. Also, I remember that there was once a Dairy Queen, but when I was there, it was a local restaurant. I think, back then, I had figured out that a town needed 500 residents to get a DQ, 3,000 residents to get a WalMart and 5,000 to get a McDonalds. (I did a lot of traveling in the state back then. absolutely LOVED road trips). I wonder if those population markers still hold. I don't see DQ's around quite as much.

 

[Matejka]

Caldwell now has a Whataburger