What did you do with your flock today?

[629522]

In other news (and then I'll stop posting until at least Wednesday because no flock time tomorrow due to a cold front and 100% chance of rain) my husband just informed me that our White Rock x hen who we named Peggy Hill because of her large feet is now Hank Hill because he began crowing this afternoon

 

[TropicalBabies]

Aloha gang. It is so darn hot (yesterday and) today that I turned on sprinklers and opened the run door to let the flock out to play/fend for themselves/cool off. Poor things. Going to cut up some watermelon for them now. Missing Koke'e.

 

[kurby22]

Aloha gang. It is so darn hot (yesterday and) today that I turned on sprinklers and opened the run door to let the flock out to play/fend for themselves/cool off. Poor things. Going to cut up some watermelon for them now. Missing Koke'e.

Wow! I don’t blame you for missing the higher elevations! I feel this way from like May-September here I HATE summers here haha.

 

[kurby22]

In other news (and then I'll stop posting until at least Wednesday because no flock time tomorrow due to a cold front and 100% chance of rain) my husband just informed me that our White Rock x hen who we named Peggy Hill because of her large feet is now Hank Hill because he began crowing this afternoon

Haha that’s funny! Hank sounds very pretty or I should say handsome! My bantam cochin boy tried crowing for the first time today and I came running over worried one of the chickens was dying but it was just Emilio trying to crow what an awful sound he made! I hope it improves hehehe.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey all best noise is a throated crow of a cockerel they can be the weirdest noises

 

[TropicalBabies]

Wow! I don’t blame you for missing the higher elevations! I feel this way from like May-September here I HATE summers here haha.

Feel like my soul is crying or maybe that's just eyeball sweat Got next to nothing done cept hydrate... and nap poor critters, them too. One bonus is the watermelon is kinda seedy and not that sweet so chickens will get to snack on that for a few. Plus I have frozen star fruit for them yum! Seems summer was just late this year.
What do your Temps and humidity do @kurby? Has it really cooled already?! A bit happy jealous
Well, the zombies let me sleep 5 hours straight last eve, the ferrets got a new toy from a friend and Forest loves his daddy and loves being a farm kitty. He caught 2 morning doves and a lizard (that I promptly fed to the chickens) that I know of and is possibly napping in the new nest box.

 

[kurby22]

Feel like my soul is crying or maybe that's just eyeball sweat Got next to nothing done cept hydrate... and nap poor critters, them too. One bonus is the watermelon is kinda seedy and not that sweet so chickens will get to snack on that for a few. Plus I have frozen star fruit for them yum! Seems summer was just late this year.
What do your Temps and humidity do @kurby? Has it really cooled already?! A bit happy jealous
Well, the zombies let me sleep 5 hours straight last eve, the ferrets got a new toy from a friend and Forest loves his daddy and loves being a farm kitty. He caught 2 morning doves and a lizard (that I promptly fed to the chickens) that I know of and is possibly napping in the new nest box.View attachment 2879518View attachment 2879514View attachment 2879515

Awww Forest does look very happy and those babies look like trouble haha

This summer most of June, July and August was over 100…it was awful! Thankfully we don’t get humidity really or I would probably melt and die The switch from summer to fall happened almost over night and now our highs are in the 60s and partly cloudy! I would happily live where it never gets over 65…like, ever I blame my Scandinavian ancestors! Hehe. I do not envy you and your hot day today. I don’t wanna be hot again for at least 5 months

The chickens and quail are definitely adjusting slowly to the new temps. They seem kind of mellow and doing a lot more cuddle puddles to stay warm. And Puff is more content to sit on me and steal my warmth hehe. I’m not sad about it I actually think some of my pullets may be closer to POL than I realized too. Some of their combs seem redder and bigger than even a week ago. And Mr Eevee is more interested in a couple of them in particular! They however are not okay with it. So not quite there but the laying Silkie has given me 4 eggs in 5 days…I love her

 

[kurby22]

Also I just have to share this picture because it’s too cute…how do you NOT throw the ball for this face??

 

[Julie45]

I decided to do a full cage clean out of my 13 baby quail .well button quail can fly ended up with quail jumping out box and me trying to catch them lol .was funny I had to stop and laugh as just looked like a wee tiny chicken running 5 came back but one we named chicken legs was all over the house she or he can run funny to watch meet chicken legs .should have named it road runner

 

[kurby22]

I decided to do a full cage clean out of my 13 baby quail .well button quail can fly ended up with quail jumping out box and me trying to catch them lol .was funny I had to stop and laugh as just looked like a wee tiny chicken running 5 came back but one we named chicken legs was all over the house she or he can run funny to watch meet chicken legs .should have named it road runner

Hehe! Quail are fast little buggers!! I can only imagine how much tougher button quail are since they’re so tiny! Chicken legs is quite an awesome name for a quail, but you may be right that road runner is more fitting haha! I did a full quail cage clean out today as well and my daughter was chasing two of them around the garden with a butterfly net while the rooster made his warning crows that sound like a dinosaur quail are always an adventure!! Chicken legs is cute!!