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Post by dawg53 on Jun 28, 2018 12:28:37 GMT -5
Raining cats and dogs here, playing havoc with my satellite internet... I did get out to the birds during a semi-lull in the action. The coop is dry as can be, and everyone is content. The tractor, I'd put up a tarp on one side the other day (mostly for sun protection), the broilers are doing fine, too. Hungry. As usual. Although I am wishing that the coop and tractor were closer to the house!!! Wasn't really going to be possible. We were thinking about getting satellite internet, but arnt. We lose satellite TV in heavy rain and T-storms also. I used to have a big 6' satellite dish when I lived in Georgia. No problems getting satellite TV signals on that thing. It was cool watching it rotate from one satellite to another. Oh yeah, it picked up a heckuva lot more channels than the small satellite dishes they have today. |
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Post by dawg53 on Jun 29, 2018 4:45:17 GMT -5
It started raining after I finished mowing the yard, weedeating, and trimming bushes around noontime yesterday, it stopped after about an hour deluge. Then it started up again at 4pm and stopped 2 hours later, it was steady rain for 1 hour. Then at 8pm all hell broke loose with a severe thunderstorm, the wind was very strong and I thought I was going to lose some tarps off the pens but luckily didnt. It rained most of the night and everything is soggy outside this morning.
There's a haze ring around the full moon this morning and frogs are croaking...more rain on the way for sure.
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Post by Sylie on Jun 29, 2018 20:08:09 GMT -5
98 degrees with dangerously high humidity, we are cooking here! omg *wipes sweat from forehead even in the A/C*
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Post by boskelli1571 on Jun 30, 2018 6:12:22 GMT -5
Yesterday was high 80s' and humid - un f***ing bearable!! Today is going to 90s' and for the next few days......looking forward to.....Winter  |
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Post by chickenqueen on Jun 30, 2018 6:51:00 GMT -5
Hot and humid.High of 94 with no end in sight.I have a freezer full of ice bottles for the waterers and the chickens can retreat in to the pines where it's cooler.High heat and humidity is so hard on them.
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Post by Sylie on Jun 30, 2018 7:07:51 GMT -5
Forecast is cooler today but still have a heat warning going because of the dew point. it's supposed to be 95 and sunny with a chance of storms tonight.
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Post by dawg53 on Jun 30, 2018 19:40:21 GMT -5
You guys are getting a dose of what we normally get. Believe me, if I could send yall some rain to cool you down, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
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Post by seminolewind on Jun 30, 2018 22:43:27 GMT -5
Rain hot humid.
I can honestly say that after hiring these lawn people my lawn is the best looking on the road! And I am someone who had an estimate to have it ripped out 6 months ago! But the guy wanted 10k !
In Florida down here I've seldom watered my lawn in the summer. It's always during non-summer time. Kinda weird!
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Post by dawg53 on Jul 1, 2018 5:10:51 GMT -5
It was just 4 years ago and the grass in our yard was all burned up due to the lack of rain in the spring and summer. Sharon asked me about watering the yard and I said nope, when it rains it'll grow. Last year and this year I almost have to mow the yard twice in one week! UGH.
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Post by Sylie on Jul 1, 2018 7:59:39 GMT -5
Looks like we are cooling off!! 83 with rain this morning woot!
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Post by seminolewind on Jul 1, 2018 11:54:38 GMT -5
I saw the weather map yesterday and it looked like my daughter in southern Indiana was a hundred degrees or so and we were 87. Haha.
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Post by chickenqueen on Jul 1, 2018 12:13:40 GMT -5
Looks like we are cooling off!! 83 with rain this morning woot! Hey!!!When you're done with it,send it down to s w Ohio.TIA!!!LOL |
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Post by artemis on Jul 1, 2018 14:12:51 GMT -5
I never water the lawn. Things I grow for food or ornamental, yep, I water those. Lawn lives or it dies based on the whims of Mother Nature...
91 degrees out right now. I was out an hour ago giving the broilers (don't want them to broil before their time!) watermelon, and the layers extra water. It is 78 F in here. I'm still not back to normal after my short stint outside.
Cannot wait until this blast is over. I'd planned on putting in geothermal, but before the slow construction could get far enough along, geothermal rebates went away.
SO...I will be adding central air. I really seriously do not respond well to heat. Health wise, not just the not liking of.
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Post by Sylie on Jul 2, 2018 1:36:36 GMT -5
Looks like we are cooling off!! 83 with rain this morning woot! Hey!!!When you're done with it,send it down to s w Ohio.TIA!!!LOL hehe, it's our turn to have the cool weather, we already did the week long stretch of 95, 98, 98, 97, 98, 99, I'm keeping it! But, if I decide I want to cool off even more than this, I"ll send you the excess mwahahaha |
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Post by dawg53 on Jul 2, 2018 5:18:43 GMT -5
I'm done watching the weatherguessers on TV, I'm sick of their incompetence. No rain was forecast for the rest of the late afternoon and evening. Since it was late in the afternoon and no rain was forecast, I went out to the coops and let all the chickens out to free range in the yard and rolled up the tarps draping down the sides of the pens.
I drop tarps down the sides of the pens to prevent wind driven rain getting everything wet inside the pens including feed etc...The tarps have been dropped down for almost 3 months due to all the rain we've been getting.
I figured it would be good idea to get some decent air flow going through the pens to help dry out the sand quicker.
It wasnt 10 minutes later after rolling up all the tarps that I noticed a big dark cloud coming over the house from the southeast.
I ran into the house and looked at the radar on my laptop and sure enough there was a red blob on the radar coming our way.
My wife ran outside with me to get all the chickens back in their respective pens while I dropped and secured the all the tarps.
The Barred Rocks headed straight to their pens when a few raindrops hit their heads.
The newbie pullets were running in every direction and I had to use a broom to herd them back into their pen, just in time before the flooding deluge.
Lesson learned. I'll never trust their forecast again, not for one minute.
If the idiots would get away from their faulty electronic equipment and stick their pointed heads outside and look up in the sky and see what's going on....THEN MAYBE they could give an accurate forecast!!!
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Post by maryellen on Jul 2, 2018 7:53:36 GMT -5
97 today with heat index of 110 ugh. Frozen water bottles in 6 waterers and fans going
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Post by chickenqueen on Jul 2, 2018 15:36:33 GMT -5
We're still baking,too.It's going to get worse before it gets better.They're saying a heat index of 105+ for the fourth.For some strange reason,my Cochins all go broody this time of the year.They are so determined about it and I gave up fighting it years ago.I check them every am/pm,expecting to find them dead.It's always during the hottest spells.
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Post by dawg53 on Jul 4, 2018 4:15:48 GMT -5
CQ, I had that happen with my two Light Brahmas before, it happened one after another. We had record heat during a drought no less. It was a pain in the neck pulling the first one off the nest several times a day and get her to eat and drink. I put 6 eggs under her and she hatched 3 of the 6 eggs. I removed the chicks and put them in the brooder. Then the 2nd Brahma went broody right after the first. I nipped it in the bud real quick and put her in a cage in the garage in isolation. It took about one week to break her. I was glad it was over with lol. It's super muggy outside this morning. You can cut the air with a knife...and I gotta mow the yard this morning  |
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Post by artemis on Jul 4, 2018 8:03:33 GMT -5
Dawg, good call about the "weatherguessers"!
It's been awful hot here the last few days as well, and should continue along that way at least through today.
The birds seem to be coping well -- maybe they still remember that 2 months ago they were under 90 F heatlamps! I give them plenty of water, and they seem to enjoy that. I give them watermelon on occasion, too. They looked at it at first like: wha? THAT's not food! Now, they want it before they want their grain!
The broilers in the tractor - I gave them a tarp for their western side. Keeps the hot sun from broiling, er, baking them at the worst time of day. The coop birds have plenty of built in protection in that coop. All windows are wide open, and they have run of the run during the daylight hours, which has a very good shading system.
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Post by chickenqueen on Jul 4, 2018 9:10:44 GMT -5
 We had a big storm roll through last night and trees/limbs are down everywhere.It rained so hard in sheets,I have never seen it rain that hard.It cooled things off,though, and thoroughly watered the gardens.The heat index will be 105-110 today.We're baking here.Someone stick a fork in me,I'm done!!! |
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