Coffee anyone ?

[Mini Horses]

Good morning all! Hot tea this morning, needed a change. It will be another long day at job, like yesterday. Sure slept soundly. I swear I felt like I had been working out at a gym all day. Huge reset jobs...filled a 40' wall of nothing with shelves, pegs, labels and about 1500 lbs of product. Today, repeat at another store. Thankfully, last one. I have a pretty physical job. At home, too

It's upper 50s outside, slight breeze, very pleasant start. Still need to go back out and open coops. Overcast now and poss scattered showers later. That's fine, about time to water the garden and I'd love to have it done for me vice by me. Rain gets pastures too!! They say close to 80 later...I'm good with that.

Seems my day is working ok for me. Hope yours is for you.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Been busy, pool got opened, last night was the first 4H horse & pony. Halter practice, the ponies behaved an DD1 had fun, dd2 also enjoyed it. She'll come around.

 

[messybun]

Good morning all! I’ve got a friend coming over today we’re throwing a bit of an unofficial baby shower. Not much, just a few blankets and wipes, the never have enough stuff. She’s also picking up seven or eight roosters for her freezer. I have to double check the last one, I’m really wishing it’s not a rooster because it’s black and pretty. I feel bad for them, they all have to be in a dog crate until afternoon because I don’t have anywhere else they wouldn’t escape. But life of a chicken, they’ll get ice water.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

morning all Dh is off at work and still he stressing about living here so his on the hunt of an option to move. my garden is taking over the planet(picture only one section). also got a pool set up for the kids. going to be cleaning house and trying to pack. not much else to do. Dd1 already started on her school apparently she wants to go swimming lol.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Thanks for the kind words and advice. I skinned the rabbits and hubby didn't want to save the meat for the dogs so he tossed them. Probably 4-5 lbs of meat on each one. I'm going to butcher the remaining grow outs tonight and get them in the freezer. I've got ice water bottles set up and a fan. Will get a second fan going once I find another power cord.

 

[River Buffaloes]

Good noon friends after another round of torrential rain, power outage and poor internet connection I am back again.

This pic was taken at one PM yesterday. This is pre-monsoon rain. Monsoon is still two weeks away.

 

[Ridgetop]

Thanks for the kind words and advice. I skinned the rabbits and hubby didn't want to save the meat for the dogs so he tossed them. Probably 4-5 lbs of meat on each one. I'm going to butcher the remaining grow outs tonight and get them in the freezer. I've got ice water bottles set up and a fan. Will get a second fan going once I find another power cord.

I see you are up in Auburn. Sorry I couldn't get back sooner with more info. We lost rabbits during heat spells frequently here in So Cal until I put precautions in hand. What kind of rabbitry do you have? Are they individual hutches outside with a shade roof or inside a building? Check whether any window or open side shines on the cages and either move the rabbits to another cage or hang shade cloth to keep sun out.

If the roof drains outside with open sides you can put a mister or sprinkler on top of the roof and turn it on during the hottest part of the day. If the sides are open the water will drip off cooling the interior of the shade or pole barn. If inside a building with no drainage, place the sprinkler above a window in the barn so you get the same effect. Put the fan where it will blow through the hutches distributing the cold air. Buy ice blocks and place in a pan in front of the fan so the fan will blow the air over it - old fashioned swamp cooler.

Frozen bottles of water are good inside the cages, and if you have any old carpet cut it into pieces about 12 x 18, saturate them in cold water and place in the cages. Feed later in the evening and stop any grain you might be giving. Grain will raise body temperature.

Remove all bedding from the nest boxes (after kits are born) into Ziploc bags or cans in the morning and save to return to the boxes at night. If your temps are not cooling at night you can keep the nest material out at night too.

CHECK YOUR WATER LINES IF YOU HAVE AUTOMATIC WATERERS! THEY CAN HEAT UP AND THE RABBITS WON'T DRINK HOT WATER. CHECK THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER COMING OUT OF THE NOZZLES. IF YOU USE BOTTLE DRINKERS, REPLACE THE WATER WITH COLD WATER DURING THE DAY. IF THE RABBITS WON;T DRINK, THEY WILL DIE IN 12 HOURS.

 

[messybun]

Good noon friends after another round of torrential rain, power outage and poor internet connection I am back again.

This pic was taken at one PM yesterday. This is pre-monsoon rain. Monsoon is still two weeks away.


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Welcome back. How are you doing?

 

[River Buffaloes]

Welcome back. How are you doing?

Day before Yesterday we had another round of torrential rain and I fell and hit back of my head against a wall. Thankfully there was no bleeding or anything, but I had a bad concussion.

Yesterday it was good, it didn't rain, Sun was shining bright, I was happy even though it was hot. And yes we planted the paddy seeds. They will be transplanted in about four weeks.

 

[Alaskan]

Good noon friends after another round of torrential rain, power outage and poor internet connection I am back again.

This pic was taken at one PM yesterday. This is pre-monsoon rain. Monsoon is still two weeks away.


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Crazy amount of rain.