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[Cynthia12]

Cassandra, sorry to hear about your hatching sadness

It happens, it is hard, but don't blame yourself!

We live on a dead end street, I know of 12 people here with chickens, which is half the houses, I think there are more at the other end that I don't know about though. Every once in awhile there is a random chicken walking along the road. It cracks me up.

LOL..yes, we have a lot of neighbors with chickens too. I actually got a call from my neighbor behind me one day to tell me that there was a chicken...ahem...that just crossed the road.

It went to the other neighbors house across the street and wondered if it could be mine...could have, so I went back and counted chickens. None of mine were missing..so went across the street, took a while, but I caught it. I remembered that a neighbor was looking for lost chickens, so, went to their home, yep, three blocks down is where she lived.

 

[Cynthia12]

Piggy is up and about! Whew, she came to the door with her tail up and she was perky. She's a little stink for scaring me like that.

 

[Sphinx]

Cynthia, I am so glad she is ok! I was so worried for you.

 

[sillycmoy]

Piggy is up and about! Whew, she came to the door with her tail up and she was perky. She's a little stink for scaring me like that.

Yeah! So happy to hear she is doing better. My one EE came out of the run into free range today, and laid right down and went to sleep, I went along putting fresh water and food in the feeders, and just watched her. She was freaking me out so bad, because usually at 7:30am they are running about eating the grass and bugs and stuff. Everyone was down the side yard, but her she was just sleeping. I went over and picked her up, something that never happens, so I was way worried, but once I put her down she went running down the side yard, she has seemed fine all day long, and is up and about tonight. She gave me a good scare this morning.

 

[Cynthia12]

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2013/07/scrambled-eggsicles-for-chickens.html

 

[Cynthia12]

Thank you Wendy and Karen. I am so relieved.
And, it's only going to get more hot. I was reading on that Chicken Chic site, and she says that they don't handle heat over 104, a real possibility of them dying. They've had heat up to 110! She's been doing all she can to keep them cooled down.
I have been freezing water in bowls, and putting it out in the water bowls they like best..they have their favorites. Not sure why. ??

Anyway, we are coming up for some more real warm days, 103 by Tues. :/

 

[sillycmoy]

I'm just glad that I have almost 100% shade for them all day long in the back corner they are in, it gets very little sun, its almost 17 ft by 30 ft of just shade all day long. Plus they can go under the deck. I have been running them back up and locking them out of the side yard from about 11-noonish till about 5pm because it gets full sun, and they are too dumb to go back in the shade. The last few days they are all laying wings out panting. so I have to chase them all back to the shade.

 

[RedIII]

I heard that it reached 103 today. I'm very glad that we have a lot of shady plants in our yard for the flock to hide in. It's days like today that really make you appreciate aggressive ground cover like trailing myrtle, bishop's weed, or ivy. We have all of these around our house, and it keeps the soil underneath moist and cool because the plants suck up all the sunlight. The chickens love going into that moist dirt and rolling around.

Well I got a fun little treat today. I let everyone out for supervised range time on the lawn, and one of the turkey poults puffed up and was trying to scare a little cockerel. The poult ended up facing the other poult in the process, who also puffed up, almost as if to say, "What's your problem? Get out of my face!" They started to pick at each other before the hen went and stood right between them like, "Ooo-kay kids, knock it off." Funny birds.

Lisa, your random chickens in the street thing made me smile. None of my neighbors have chickens, so if there's one in the road or the neighbor's yard, it's probably mine

I think chickens are magicians, because some of mine defy the laws of physics when they get out.

 

[6KidsFarm]

I am located in Erda (by Tooele).

 

[themadchicken]

Quote: maybe she had a ruff night. Iv been there myself, found the first place to crash.