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Post by maryellen on Mar 14, 2019 13:11:10 GMT -5
62 and mud today!!
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Post by Sylie on Mar 14, 2019 21:47:29 GMT -5
The high today was at 6 this morning...54 degrees, it went steadily downhill all day and the wind was so bad that it tore the plastic off of my duck run. I had to try to duct tape it back on in the wind lol probably should have used staples but that's how I originally attached it and the wind tore it off them so I figured I'd try the tape, seems to be holding. The wind is drying things up a little but man oh man is it brutal.
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 15, 2019 10:30:48 GMT -5
We had 61 and the wind from hell. I thought my lil white silkie would blow over (like a tumbleweed). We had lots of rain.
Jim, the Quick Dam works great. However, I diverted some of the water to an area by accident and instead of the river running on one side of the barn, it was running down the other side. Inside the barn it appears that the area the flood used to come in, stayed pretty dry. So I should get another one . Where the diverter did work on the initial side, it made a "river" that runs down about 3 feet outside the barn to the back of the property and eventually I'll have my own little pond, LOL
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Post by dawg53 on Mar 15, 2019 12:25:48 GMT -5
I'm glad it worked for you Karen, and it sounds like you could use another. I was going to initially buy another one but if you remember, I put a 4" corrugated hose on the end of a gutter downspout to drain water out into the yard. It was an 8' section and I had to buy another 8' section to drain water further out in the yard.
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Post by maryellen on Mar 15, 2019 13:53:51 GMT -5
66 today!! Mud mud mud
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Post by Sylie on Mar 15, 2019 23:05:48 GMT -5
it was 45 here today with a lot of wind until this evening when it died down, at least I'm not up to my ankles in mud anymore, the wind and sunshine today helped a lot.
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Post by dawg53 on Mar 16, 2019 4:05:07 GMT -5
It looks like we're going to have a wild weather weekend. It's currently windy and cloudy and expecting rain with a drop in temps. I'm sure the golfers at the PGA tournament in Pontra Vedra Beach wont be happy, oh well. I'm happy!
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 16, 2019 11:08:44 GMT -5
Those corrugated drains are great! I ordered this 5 inch high landscape edging, 40 feet, which goes 3 inches in the ground, but you have to "slice" a trench with a shovel. Then, I'm going to put the garden hose across the driveway and see how much water it diverts. If a good amount, then I'll buy something like a speed bump or threshold to direct the water off the driveway.
In front of the barn, there's a circular drive and both ends drop about 1.5 feet down from the road and the water ends up in front of the barn and channels thru the barn and makes a puddle on the other side. With the quick dam, most of the water went around the barn and ended up pooling right at the property line, which is a good spot.
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 16, 2019 11:09:15 GMT -5
As long as the weather's good for the Master's.
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 19, 2019 10:14:52 GMT -5
Finally! I think the ground is drying out! (Only to rain tomorrow)
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Post by Sylie on Mar 19, 2019 22:19:02 GMT -5
We are drying out too finally. The ducks keep trying to take baths in the mud thats left in the low spots...silly ducks. Mid 50's here today but it's raining now and looks like we could get an inch by the time it's all said and done.
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Post by dawg53 on Mar 20, 2019 5:08:29 GMT -5
Cloudy and cool this morning. It was very windy yesterday due to a northeaster off the coast. The weatherguessers are saying sunny today lol...we'll see!
In any case, my birds are in for a rude awakening shortly...they're getting wormed heheheh.
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 20, 2019 10:01:38 GMT -5
I started a slim 3 inch deep trench to put my edging in to divert the rain water. I'm half done. Because of the thick sticky clay soil, the shovel does not come out easy. And the trench gets a bit messy. So I went thru with a one inch thick 1x6 about a foot long and hammered it in along the trench to make it nice and hopefully aggravation free putting the edging in.
Of course there's always someone who is great at advice and I am working too hard putting in this trench . He tells me this dirt should be easy to dig a trench in. Haha. So I give him the shovel and he was rudely awakened by how wrong he was. He says when he pulls the shovel out it has half the ground stuck to it! Duh! So he tells me I have the wrong shovel. (I have a flat shovel). So he buys me this improved shovel. So I say "have fun!"
I always think if someone tells you how you can do it better, let them do it!
We've had some pleasant weather for a week!
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Post by maryellen on Mar 20, 2019 12:54:01 GMT -5
50! I let all the hens out today. They are very happy to be in the big yard vs their 40 ft run lol
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Post by Sylie on Mar 20, 2019 23:16:59 GMT -5
We got 2/10ths of an inch of rain, it didn't bother anything and the temp today was mid 50's again, last I looked was 52 at 11 a.m. and I know it got warmer than that. We even had a little sunshine peek through for a bit. I need to get coops cleaned out and everything, ready for spring! I also need to build my 3rd coop, my chicks are getting ready to move outside in a few weeks.
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 21, 2019 10:50:55 GMT -5
Looks like my yard and paddock are drying out a bit.
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Post by Sylie on Mar 21, 2019 22:46:50 GMT -5
It was so nice and warm today, the sun came out, I even hung a load of clothes on the line  ! I got the "big girl's" coop cleaned out, upstairs and down. I will be moving the chicks into the upstairs in the next day or two, they can't get into the run and the big girls can't get into the upstairs once I put the drop floor (floor for the upstairs, ceiling for the downstairs where the big girls are) so they should be warm and safe up there with plenty of room to run around and grow. They are too big for the brooder now and are constantly in each other's way. Lots of annoyed screeches from the brooder! lol I can't believe they outgrew my oversized brooder so quickly, they are only 3 weeks old. It's supposed to be sunny and in the 50's for the next few days then a few days of 60's so with the heat lamp in the upstairs, they should do fine, I turned on the heat lamp this afternoon and have been watching the temp in different areas up there, the furthest part away from the lamp was hovering at 65, the warmest was 85. The chicks don't want it any warmer than 72 right now, their choice, if it gets too warm, they cry and try to get out of the brooder. I'm sure they will find a good place somewhere in there. The coop floor space is 6 x 5 so there are plenty of temperature zones to go around. |
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 22, 2019 10:36:57 GMT -5
Love it! I get my chicks in May.
Weather has been decent 40's. But yesterday was raw. I got stage 1 of the water diversion edging done. I have to decide if I want a pond or not. That would mean diverting all the water to one specific area. I would like to finish the one gutter today too.
ME I hope your blizzards, ice storms and mud and high winds have calmed down. When do you expect an actual spring?
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Post by Sylie on Mar 22, 2019 23:12:14 GMT -5
Another beautiful day today, mid 50's, sunny, everything is drying out finally, the flooding is going down, it's mostly in the low spots now. The rivers are still out of their banks and the fields have standing water. It's going to be a very mosquito filled spring/summer if we can't get this water to go down.
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 23, 2019 10:15:52 GMT -5
Sylie sounds like you have the wet weather we do. Like ponds that appear and disappear.
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! I got the "big girl's" coop cleaned out, upstairs and down. I will be moving the chicks into the upstairs in the next day or two, they can't get into the run and the big girls can't get into the upstairs once I put the drop floor (floor for the upstairs, ceiling for the downstairs where the big girls are) so they should be warm and safe up there with plenty of room to run around and grow. They are too big for the brooder now and are constantly in each other's way. Lots of annoyed screeches from the brooder! lol I can't believe they outgrew my oversized brooder so quickly, they are only 3 weeks old. It's supposed to be sunny and in the 50's for the next few days then a few days of 60's so with the heat lamp in the upstairs, they should do fine, I turned on the heat lamp this afternoon and have been watching the temp in different areas up there, the furthest part away from the lamp was hovering at 65, the warmest was 85. The chicks don't want it any warmer than 72 right now, their choice, if it gets too warm, they cry and try to get out of the brooder. I'm sure they will find a good place somewhere in there. The coop floor space is 6 x 5 so there are plenty of temperature zones to go around.