*WARNING*Tornado Watch in So.Cal**UPDATE**

[S n M Poultry]

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Thanks but i think they are all safe for now

 

[ruth]

So sorry to hear of your losses. We had a really bad storm here a week ago and I spent the whole time in the hen house putting cages up on blocks, building dams with boards and diverting water that was pouring in through the walls like a waterfall from ground outside coop, and bailing water out as fast as I could. I was knee deep in a raging river inside coop. Had to keep putting chickens up on roosts because they just stood there in the water and wouldn't move. If I hadn't been in there I know they would have drowned.

 

[S n M Poultry]

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Sorry to hear that. Did you lose any?

 

[ruth]

No I didn't lose any but only because I was out there. If I hadn't been home or hadn't gone out there I think I would have lost them all but Ruth. She must be the smartest one because she's the only one who got up on roosts which are in hen house rafters. Everyone else just stood on ground and walked around in chest deep fast flowing water like it was nothing. I was having to catch them one by one (they were running from me) and put them up on roosts. I also had cages, hutches and kennels of baby chicks and ducks that I had to stack and put up on blocks or they would have drowned. I'm thankful I was home. Huge old trees went down - it was really bad. The yard stayed flooded for two days. It was a real mess.

If someone had told me a few years ago that I would be standing knee deep in a raging river of chicken and duck shi_, bailing water and shoveling manure to make dams and desperately trying to save the lives of 46 chickens and 20 ducks I would have told them they were crazy. Now looks like I'm the crazy one.

The ducks loved it by the way. They were swimmng around inside coop and diving under water and having a ball.

 

[S n M Poultry]

Im sorry to hear about that. my backyard has about 6 inches of water in it=/

 

[pdsavage]

ok we have earthquakes in illinois and tornadoes in california.Crazy mixed u weather.....

 

[horsejody]

Sorry for your losses.

 

[S n M Poultry]

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Thank you