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[ronott1]

My Hens are still laying eggs even in the heat!

Good job Girls!

I collected these over the last couple of days:

 

[ronott1]

Look what I just saw....

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I love Junk Yard Art!

Looks like a "transformer Rooster,"

Good one!

 

[Cynthia12]

Good Grief ron..you are getting the heat. Sorry. It's almost 10 p.m. here, and it's still 84 degrees. Supposed to hit 100 tomorrow. :/ My girls are also laying well, but I don't have enough hens to give me what you are getting!

 

[ronott1]

Good Grief ron..you are getting the heat. Sorry. It's almost 10 p.m. here, and it's still 84 degrees. Supposed to hit 100 tomorrow. :/ My girls are also laying well, but I don't have enough hens to give me what you are getting!

It is now 9:10 and still 91 outside. We may get down to 68 tonight.

Chicken math says I only have 6 hens. I am very good at chicken math.

 

[Peep_Show]

The heat was why we vacated Las Vegas after a decade of enduring that five-month season affectionately called "Hell." It wasn't uncommon to have it be 100 at midnight. I cannot live like mole people and only come out when it is dark. Now, mind you, New Mexico isn't a whole lot cooler. At least here the weather changes it up AND we have actual seasons! (I used to joke that the Las Vegas color of greenery was sage and in the summer dusty sage)

Anyway, DH and I had a good laugh the other day when we ventured up to Santa Fe. It was all of 85 degrees out and people were fanning themselves at the bus stop because of the heatwave! (85 is a nice Spring day in LV)

I feel for y'all that are enduring a string of triple digits...and especially for those already afflicted with your own personal tropical summer via hormones. I found that a damp rag kept in the fridge or freezer and then draped around the neck made life bearable if you had to go outdoors (and not be dressed up for biz).

Ron: I'm interested in heat-hardy birds. What's the temperament and egg size like on the Pene's? Minorcas are a big seller at our local feedstore. I'm interested in something that will lay a large white egg or dark brown eggs, endure heat and not be idiot-flighty. If they can be sex-linked, Nirvana!

 

[ronott1]

The heat was why we vacated Las Vegas after a decade of enduring that five-month season affectionately called "Hell." It wasn't uncommon to have it be 100 at midnight. I cannot live like mole people and only come out when it is dark. Now, mind you, New Mexico isn't a whole lot cooler. At least here the weather changes it up AND we have actual seasons! (I used to joke that the Las Vegas color of greenery was sage and in the summer dusty sage)

Anyway, DH and I had a good laugh the other day when we ventured up to Santa Fe. It was all of 85 degrees out and people were fanning themselves at the bus stop because of the heatwave! (85 is a nice Spring day in LV)

I feel for y'all that are enduring a string of triple digits...and especially for those already afflicted with your own personal tropical summer via hormones. I found that a damp rag kept in the fridge or freezer and then draped around the neck made life bearable if you had to go outdoors (and not be dressed up for biz).

Ron: I'm interested in heat-hardy birds. What's the temperament and egg size like on the Pene's? Minorcas are a big seller at our local feedstore. I'm interested in something that will lay a large white egg or dark brown eggs, endure heat and not be idiot-flighty. If they can be sex-linked, Nirvana!

Partridge and Crele Penes are 85 to 90 percent auto sexing. They lay large dark brown eggs. The Dark eggs in the egg picture are mostly Penedesenca eggs. I have one Black, One Wheaten and Three partridge Penes that are laying eggs now. It is getting pretty far into the egg laying cycle so the color is a bit lighter now.

The Penes are not very flighty. I pick up the Rooster each afternoon and carry him out to the breeding pen. He jumps up into my glove and goes right out with me. The Arkansas Blues are a bit more flighty but they are heat hardy and lay very nice blue eggs.

Partridge Penes are at the top of the heat hardy list. They have big combs but they can do fine in the cold. Chicken canoe has Black Penes and had a very cold winter this year.

 

[Lacy Blues]

UGH! I wish we would have summer!!!

I would love to trade you!

I wish we had summer and not the heat of Hades....



Today was 104....Tomorrow will be 106....@8:12 it is 95.

It's 10:20 pm right now and it is 92 degrees out there. I'm hoping it cools down a lot more before I have to turn off the cooler.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Praying for rain for all of us!

I love spring and fall. Summers are to hot here also.

We try to repurpose as much as we can here also but these pens we had to buy the wire, posts, and tarps. But on our coop we made it out of pallets that DH got from work.
These pens are for my breeder groups 6 of them are 6x12 and one is 7x12 and then two grow out pens that are 5x6 with chicken wire around the bottom 18" to keep the chicks in the pens.
I had wanted two 12x50 sections of pens with a walk way in between but after all this building and raising 130+ chicks I was just ready to be done. So I told DH to never mind the second row of pens. That I would make do with the ones we were already working on. And I cut out some of the breeds I had bought and sold some and others I will just grow out and put in my runs. The hen and rooster runs are also 12x50 each with tarps for shade but they also have a coop.

My birds will get shade and water. I joke about wanting a fan or a/c for them but there is no way.

 

[chickadoodles]

My Hens are still laying eggs even in the heat!

Good job Girls!

I collected these over the last couple of days:

Wow I love the colors of those eggs and lots of them.

Quote: x2 Love the transformer rooster.

Quote:
My goodness this summer is killer on everyone! We need some fall weather now!

Originally Posted by Peep_Show

The heat was why we vacated Las Vegas after a decade of enduring that five-month season affectionately called "Hell." It wasn't uncommon to have it be 100 at midnight. I cannot live like mole people and only come out when it is dark. Now, mind you, New Mexico isn't a whole lot cooler. At least here the weather changes it up AND we have actual seasons! (I used to joke that the Las Vegas color of greenery was sage and in the summer dusty sage)

Quote: I feel for y'all we have horrible heat here also but not as bad as NV or NM I feel for y'all! Hope fall weather comes soon for us all!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG..I'm impressed. You sew pillow cases..and mitts? Sounds like fun, if you know how to sew. I don't! My grandmother sewed, I know that much. Remember those patterns laying out on the floor, then the pins in that tomato looking thing. Then my Aunts trying on what ever it was while she pinned it up. Then her sewing. My mother never sewed. So, I never learned. I did sew the ends of quilts for a lot of years..that's the most I ever used a sewing machine, and all it was used for in my home. A daughter has it now.

Can you post some photos of your pillow cases and mitts? Would love to see them.

It's not so much hot here as it is humid. Feels like the water is just dripping off everything and it's only 6 am.


I just started sewing about a year and a half ago. Couldn't even sew on a button prior to that. If any of you want to learn, take a class. Or fiddle around with a cheap machine (after you've been taught how to use it).

I'm afraid I can't post the pillowcases I made yesterday (one of them might have been inappropriate for BYC and I didn't take a photo of them separately). But I'll post some other recently completed projects.

I'm still not good at bias tape (see the green edge?):


Made a quilted sewing machine cover:


Four other pillowcases I made, all bird-themed (and approved by Sophie):