The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

Well, here it is then. The Cold Folks Home.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/921630/the-cold-folks-home

I don't qualify, yet. It was 68 and muggy last night. Way too hot and sticky for sleep.

 

[vehve]

I think if you read the qualification requirements, you'll find them to be quite easy to fill.

 

[bamadude]

Oz: just saw on the news about the terrorists at manilla airport. Be careful

 

[chickadoodles]

SCG your bag is very cute!

 

[chickadoodles]

Yesterday's hike was a bit of a wash. The skies were overcast so the colors were washed out, I hiked a long way and didn't see much, and the weather insisted on sprinkling on me off and on. I did get a couple gems though.




I am also working on a photoshop layering technique that I am just learning about. I love how "dreamy" they look.

You take such beautiful pictures! They are always so beautiful and I enjoy them so much! Thank you for sharing.

 

[ronott1]

Ok, have to ask, did you freeze the tomatoes whole..or cut into big pieces? Small? I'm guessing they don't take long to thaw out, or maybe that isn't necessary if they are being put into a blender. I like my own salsa.

Just quartered since the sauce goes through a blender at the end. Some in my house do not like chunky spaghetti sauce.

Oh, and there I was thinking I was being all slick ordering up gobs of sex-link eggs to make my flock. You know the old adage "We make plans and God laughs"? Well, I'm hearing the chuckling now. Starting out with 41 eggs I have a grand total of three (3) CQ pullets and one undetermined OE, 3 Welsummer roos and 4 CQ roos. 5 eggs left in the incubator on Day 22. Of course, the brutality dispensed by the USPS didn't help the hatch rate either...about 25%. But not a single Welsummer or OE pullet? (Well, there is that one OE that we won't know about until later, F2 marans over marans + CCL) AND that's not including the dozen TJ's that were set and pulled due to the fertile eggs turning up all clears.

So off to Round 2 of hatching. Other than a few token Welsummer eggs I think I'll go with the nonsex-linked this time. Thinking about Wheaten Marans and Black Bresse. Of course, that being said, the tide may turn the other way and I'll be inundated in pullets. (There are far, far worse fates IMHO)

Shipped eggs hatch at a fifty percent rate on average. It can be a bunch worse but sometimes it is much higher. You just never know.

I don't qualify, yet. It was 68 and muggy last night. Way too hot and sticky for sleep.

Temps are from a low of 63 to a high of 102 today.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: It's in the 70's at night here and 96* the high for today. Ron I feel for you at 102! Whit the humidity here our heat index has been abt or above 100* here. I hate it. I have been going out and making puddles in the birds runs and pens to cool them off! It helps.

 

[ronott1]

It's in the 70's at night here and 96* the high for today. Ron I feel for you at 102! Whit the humidity here our heat index has been abt or above 100* here. I hate it. I have been going out and making puddles in the birds runs and pens to cool them off! It helps.

I will run the mister system today. It really helps.

I only lost one chicken to the heat this year. Last year I lost none but we had the hottest july on record here this summer. It of course was on of the Hupp australorps. She was a black one. I still have one black and one blue from that hatch.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Oh Ron that is terrible! I am so sorry!

I bought a mister and thought it would be great, but when I went out to check on it later the water was hot! Because it was coming out of the hose so slow and the hose was in the sun the water was as hot as if it were coming out of the hot water faucet in the house! I do run the sprinkler sometimes just so the birds can get in and cool off if they need to! Since I don't pay a water bill I can let it run for a couple hours.

 

[ozexpat]

Thanks dude. I saw it on the net.

I am glad they were caught before they could do damage.

There are idiots everywhere these days.