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Ouch Cap. Don't tell me you are applying for membership in the BYC Klutz Club?
Ouch Cap. Don't tell me you are applying for membership in the BYC Klutz Club? I guess i need to, i have not been too lucky lately. I think it might be partly my size 10 feet!
It's just been plain miserable here the past few days, also. Temps in the mid 90s and humidity in the mid 50-60% range. The chickens don't want to come out of their coop and prefer staying inside and laying in front of the fan. I have two fans going for them during the day and one at night. The roosters just want to stand around with their wings hanging on the ground. If I had wings I'd be droopy also.
We decided to work on the back of our house. Being Amish built meant they used their worst siding where you couldn't see it from the road. Since we have turned the north side of the house into the front (it overlooks deep woods and our pastures)and since they put 5 different colors of siding on it, we figured it was time to do something about it. So our plan is to take off all the old metal siding and since the insulation in the house is marginal at best, we are going to tear off the house wrap, lay in insulation, replace the wrap and reside it with metal that is all the same color
We spent the day measuring so the siding could be ordered. We'd go out, work for a half hour, race back into the AC, drink a bottle of water and head back out again.
I've still got to put a new roof on the old coop and get fencing up for the broodies and their chicks. I keep hoping the heat and humidity will settle down so I can get some outside work done. I also need to work on the inside of the old coop, upper and lower levels. The upper level is going to remain the bachelor pen and the lower I'm going to make into a little coop for Lucky and her two little friends. Those little pullets just aren't growing and are still smaller than my OEGB/bantam mutts that are the same age they are. I'm going to have to get some new pictures of them but there is no way I can even let them loose with the standards and the little hens or with the bantam roosters. I'm beginning to wonder if they aren't crosses. I read somewhere where hatchery Japanese bantams were seldom pure Japanese bantam but Jap/OEGB crosses. Either way, I want to put them in their own pen with a few smaller bantam hens and in the spring when I get my Egyptian Fayoumi chicks, get a couple of roosters that I know are pure OEGBs to go in with them.
Aren't we silly humans though as far as the weather is concerned. When we have cold weather, we want hot and when we have hot, we long for cold.
We deserve whatever ma nature wants to hand us, LOL
It's just been plain miserable here the past few days, also. Temps in the mid 90s and humidity in the mid 50-60% range. The chickens don't want to come out of their coop and prefer staying inside and laying in front of the fan. I have two fans going for them during the day and one at night. The roosters just want to stand around with their wings hanging on the ground. If I had wings I'd be droopy also.
We decided to work on the back of our house. Being Amish built meant they used their worst siding where you couldn't see it from the road. Since we have turned the north side of the house into the front (it overlooks deep woods and our pastures)and since they put 5 different colors of siding on it
I've still got to put a new roof on the old coop and get fencing up for the broodies and their chicks. I keep hoping the heat and humidity will settle down so I can get some outside work done. I also need to work on the inside of the old coop, upper and lower levels. The upper level is going to remain the bachelor pen and the lower I'm going to make into a little coop for Lucky and her two little friends. Those little pullets just aren't growing and are still smaller than my OEGB/bantam mutts that are the same age they are. I'm going to have to get some new pictures of them but there is no way I can even let them loose with the standards and the little hens or with the bantam roosters. I'm beginning to wonder if they aren't crosses. I read somewhere where hatchery Japanese bantams were seldom pure Japanese bantam but Jap/OEGB crosses. Either way, I want to put them in their own pen with a few smaller bantam hens and in the spring when I get my Egyptian Fayoumi chicks, get a couple of roosters that I know are pure OEGBs to go in with them.
Aren't we silly humans though as far as the weather is concerned. When we have cold weather, we want hot and when we have hot, we long for cold.
We deserve whatever ma nature wants to hand us, LOL
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