Utah!

[La Casa de Pollo]

Hey Cynthia, I am hatching too still Haha have not stopped all summer. Keep saying I am done. You know the drill. I have a garage full of polka dotted madness going on.

 

[themadchicken]

Whats missing from this picture? any geusses?

 

[Cynthia12]

Whats missing from this picture? any geusses?

 

[Cynthia12]

sundance, so glad you are home. Rest up for that Arizona trip. You deserve a nice fun break away.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

dbl posted

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Whats missing from this picture? any geusses?

Is that a double shelled egg?? Kind of looks like it maybe it is just the way it is cracked and the membrane makes it look that way lol. This chick is missing!

 

[sundancenbare]

Whats missing from this picture? any geusses?

I would say a rir baby congrats

 

[sillycmoy]

Talk about some freaky weather we just had come through here. I wasn't home and my baby run is literally flooded, and I lost 1 to drowning, and I think another isn't going to make it, it was laying head first in the water, but when I pulled her out she was still breathing. They are all in the house under the heat lamp since they are all soaking wet. There is at least 8 inches of water in there, and not one was in the coop. I don't have the heart to tell my 5 year old daughter and she even knows that one is missing. I told her she counted wrong, and they are all okay. I feel awful about it. Poor little D'Uccle Chick.

 

[PoultryPedia]

Silly--It was really unexpected weather! Very sorry about your chicks!!

 

[sillycmoy]

Thanks Speckledhills. It was extremely weird weather. We were actually at Walmart when this all happened. When we pulled in the parking lot and all these green, like olive-green clouds rolled in over the Timp Mountain so fast, they were so low, they were at the roofs of the houses on the base of the mountain and rolled up, engulfing them. We sat there in awe for like 2 minutes watching as it went up the mountain and then it started bouncing off the mountain and started to head back down the mountain. We've never see clouds do this before, they had to have been moving at least 100 miles an hr. Before we knew it they were spinning, and 3 funnels started to form. Next thing we know it Walmart has like 10 employees out in the parking lot screaming at every one to get in the building, They made everyone get into the middle of the store. They then announced that the severe weather reports that there are funnel clouds, and we need to stay away from all doors and windows. Then it just starting raining like I've never heard rain before. It rained for like 20 minutes so hard, water was coming in the emergency exits and the front doors, Walmart was literally flooding. I wish I wouldn't have left my cell phone in the car, because it was the craziest weather I've ever seen. If you looked out the doors, even though we had to stay behind the registers you couldn't see anything but grey, the rain was so thick you couldn't see anywhere. We were told after at least 30 minutes we were allowed to go, but to stay off the main roads and to head straight home. We walked through the parking lot in about 6 inches of water and it was a mess driving back up to our house. We live on the mountain and the road was washed out with dirt and branches all the way home. I feel bad for our neighbor her retaining wall busted and she had about 8 inches of mud in her house. We live less then a 1/4th mile from the Alpine Quail Fire, and the mountain was coming down. It was amazing to see, but the poor families that live down there have had a hard time with the rain all summer.

Its still raining here this morning. My whole run is a mess. This morning since it was pouring so hard last night I didn't do it, I tipped up the baby moveable run, to let all the water run out. Its so muddy out there that I actually decided to lock the Silkies up in the other coop for the day, they were sticking in the mud, and was getting stuck. Poor things. Most of the other girls are still sitting in the coop, not wanting to come out. But its cold outside. Really cold. All of them hatched this spring/summer so they never have been in the cold. This morning it was 48 when I went outside. Glad I brought the almost 5 week old chicks in. They would have froze. Guess they are staying in the house till it all dries out. My other one that I thought was drowned too, is doing okay. Yesterday she had a very hard time standing up, but she was so soaked. She just laid under the heat light. Last night she did get up and stumble over to the food and water and was eating. She seems much better this morning. She was up and about in there when I checked. But I'm still not sure we are out of the clear. She just looks sleepy. But I take eating is a good sign. Poor thing.