The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Glad you are safe down there! Just extremely wet here! So much water in so few days! Yes the grumpy chicken disease is here too! And if this keeps up it may turn into grumpy chicken owner disease!lolKeep your heads low till the next one goes thru!

 

[believer01]

S'ok here. Saw trees bent over ~ and just like in Wizard of Oz I saw some things blowing sideways! It got green (I love green grass, hate green skies). Forgot to shut the stall windows so they're wet inside. The girls are upset that they were shut up for so long, and grousing around about the wetness!!! I know just how they feel....enough is enough!!!

I heard that so far we've had over 500 tornado's this year (or was it month?) which is 4x's the previous record of 139 or such. Me thinks sumthing's up!

Get ready for round 2 and 3, kiddies!

 

[HBuehler]

Here,yesterday morning was much worse than the storms this morning.We lost a lot of shingles and limbs-when I was outside at 2am closing up the chickens trees were laying flat and the pool water was being lifted up in sheets from the wind.This morning we just got rain-the Big Bird house flooded though.The ditch in the Wyandotte pen was clogged-all that rain dumped inside the shed

now accepting applications for digging the mud and wet chicken poo out
This morning my alarm clock went off at the same time as Noaa

who could sleep through that
Waiting for the PO to call my Meredith Ameraucana's are coming in today...hopefully before round 2

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Holly I read the other day where you were unplugging your incubators! SHOCK! No wonder all these catstrophies are happening! Please Please plug them back in! Save us all! The world just can't handle unplugged incubators at the Beuheler Farms!lol

 

[HBuehler]

I'm only unplugging them for a few weeks.I need to go to IN to see my Niece.Insert horrible family story here but in short I haven't seen her in 17 years. You know how it is when people that don't know chickens try to take care of new hatch chicks

figure it's just easier and better not to have them while I'm gone.I still have all 6 on right now with single small hatches in all of them.But as each one hatches...I'm also offering some chicks for sale that I otherwise wouldn't be offering from these next hatches..BLRW,Wheaten Ameraucana,Bantam Cochin's you may not see this happen again this year...oh also selling the eggs for a few weeks from all my pens -someone needs to hatch these cuties

BUT no chicks for a few weeks will mean I won't have enough bator space when I start back up...going to need fluff really bad by then That will be the longest 21 days in History

 

[Troyerchicks]

Okay here, just water-logged. The coop is built at a slight slant so the back half is wet but the girls are all okay. They are grumpy but have plenty of dry area. I was able to let them out for an hour or so but now the 2nd round is coming through so back in they go.
Kids are home too but I would rather have them all home than scattered at different schools.
UGH - tired of this weather!!

 

[believer01]

Y'all, I'd just like to say that anyone that does not have a weather alert radio needs to invest in one pronto!

We don't have tv connection and even if we did, I'd hate to have to stay up all night listening to 'severe weather coverage' that didn't apply to me. I've got one that is programable so that it only goes off when there's a tornado watch or warning for our county and the 2 counties which could immediately affect us here! Didnt' have it programed at one point and it was alerting every couple minutes for all the areas around middle tn and that was not a good thing! Almost disconnected it, then realized that was not a smart move.

Anyway, I slept well last night and woke around 5 to the tornado watch, right before the warning was sounded. Called neighbors and friends who were in the danger area while getting kitties and important 'stuff' into the basement, watched stuff flying by horizontally, and wkrn live weather reports. Didn't have to freak out wondering if/where/when.

Imho a worthwhile investment! Just be sure to get a unit that runs on batteries, too!
HOpe everyone and all our fowl are ok!

 

[HBuehler]

we have one as well..satellite tv doesn't do well in storms

Mine is programmed to 2 counties since I live on the line but wish I had invested more money and got one that you can decide what alerts you want to hear.I really don't like getting woke up for a flood warning

.Mine went off at the same time as my alarm clock this morning our room sounded like..well you were not going to sleep.
We had the tornado watch then the flood warning then the tornado warning all about the same time.

 

[believer01]

Holly, best investment I've made in a long time was one that can be programmed for what you are interested in! Batteries died so last time we had a power outage the alert reverted to cover everything! One morning last week I was up around 3 - something trying to reprogram it for 'pertinent' information.

Now it only goes off for tornado watch/warnings for our county and the 2 that could immediately impact us....makes a world of difference!

 

[HBuehler]

Mine can be programmed to any Counties I want but it doesn't let me pick what warnings I want to alerted to.Really why do I care if the area is flooding if it reaches my door I have a whole lot of worse problems to deal with..like the loss of man kind in general

Well, my Meredith chicks have been returned to sender.I have to wonder if they ever watch tv or something trying to ship here this week.Of coarse they shipped them then told me.If they had sent a courtesy e-mail I could have told them it wouldn't happen. Then my little brain has to wonder why Fed Ex held them in Milwaukee for nearly 2 days before figuring out no planes are flying in or out of TN very well.

Now,I wonder when will I get another chance to get the chicks re-shipped