The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

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.

Misters work well here because of the lower humidity. The hose is in the shade too.

Some here lost as many as three in a day to the heat. The worst I heard about was a dozen little pedler marans dead in one day last summer--it was 115 plus at her place that day.

She was selling them for $300 or so per last year too.

 

[Highcotton]

Bahahaha   I know the feeling.    DD told me today that the chicken coop area looked like Fred Samsons.  I hold her that I'll get it picked up tomorrow.  The only trouble is I have a lot of bags of compost and and pots sitting around waiting for my container garden.  I can only do so much each day and today was way busy.  My problem is the house sits sideways and the back yard is open to the road.  I've really got to get busy.   

I understand the feeling. With me you can't see the house from the road much less the back yard.

 

[Peep_Show]

One Welsummer egg (hasn't pipped) is still viable! Candling saw movement. Cleared out the other four (the 2 sex-links were boys, btw) and eggtopsy showed demise somewhere between lockdown and Day 20.

So...... Being the ever-optimistic one, I've ordered up a second batch of eggs: Welsummer, Wheaten Marans, Legbar and EE. If I keep at it I know I'll get my flock of, well, more than 3 hens, albeit at this point the project is getting a tad, errrr, indulgent.

 

[tnspursfan09]

In the car, the back filled with balloons, Maddy in her booster seat, pulling out of the hospital parking garage and what song is playing on the radio? Happy!

 

[bamadude]

In the car, the back filled with balloons, Maddy in her booster seat, pulling out of the hospital parking garage and what song is playing on the radio? Happy!

great news

 

[vehve]

In the car, the back filled with balloons, Maddy in her booster seat, pulling out of the hospital parking garage and what song is playing on the radio? Happy!

Yay! Sometimes the radio really makes for a great soundtrack.

 

[perchie.girl]

Its been hovering around a hundred here during the day. ranging from about ninety on up.

This is why I only get hard feathered and clean shanked chickens for up at my house. We rarely get 115 days this year has been CRRayzee though. Last year we only got three inches of rain. Even the desert is going dorment or dying.

The breeds that are successful up at my place (wily enough to forage) are Game mutts... desert raised: I tried Wellsummers and they did quite well up there with good protection but they couldn't get away from the coyotes when they got in... the poultry yard.

Game Mutts: Really raised up for their ability to survive.
They MUST be able to
Handle the heat
Fly at least thirty feet distance
Capable to roost in trees (though I wont let them they just need to be able to fly that high)

I like:
Sumatras
Heritage Turkeys surprisingly
Guinea Fowl
These can free range when I live up there.

The egg layers will have a portion of the poultry house which wont be allowed out to free range. And they will have a huge exercise area for enrichement but it will have six foot fence with roofing of either netting or fishing line and a perimeter of hot wire for predators that can clime like Dogs, Mountain lions, and Bob Cat. Yep I have seen dogs climb chainlink....

deb

 

[Bunnylady]

In the car, the back filled with balloons, Maddy in her booster seat, pulling out of the hospital parking garage and what song is playing on the radio? Happy!

 

[vehve]

Deb, our landraces would work for you too from the predator aspect, although I don't know if their small combs are too well suited for the heat.

 

[LindaB220]

arg!

Too much frustration!



I NEED MY SPOUSE TO BE BODY SNATCHED AND REPLACED WITH A POULTRY LOVING (or more tolerant) version!!!!
(I need at least one more coop)

Had to have a do over on this post. My family decided that my chicken stuff and garden stuff was too trashy looking from the street so SIL Clint came out and loaded most of my sacks of compost and soil amendents and anything he could get his hands on and carried it off. I b****ed about it and unloaded some of it and put in my storeroom. So after pickup and cleaning it looks great. No fall garden but I'll make do. We both did a little compromise and didn't get into a big argument. Win-win.