Where the h-ll is SPRING

[rockdoveranch]

A few days ago we got almost 2 inches of rain down here along the Texas Gulf Coast. Our native grasses greened right up, but we are back in the drought again. Grasses out in the sun look like hay sticking up out of the ground.

We have been in summer here for over a month. I keep forgetting it is not summer.

 

[PattySh]

RAIN, RAIN, RAIN and more RAIN! So wet the water is pooling on top of my yards. The dogs come in soaked. My pigs are in the mud and the cows and horses padocks are all nasty. Whole barn is damp and the goats barely venturing out. Pour chickens and turkeys are stuck in their coop won't even venture out the door. It's disgusting. Get soaked doing chores. The only plus is that the strawberries, blueberries and raspberries are thriving. Have no idea how we are going to get a vegie garden in if this continues tho

 

[Royd Wood]

Hey Patty - your place looks just like mine then
Rained all day and its so cold with no end to it before next week
No chance to sow oats and barley as the fields are soaked and its getting so late

 

[Royd Wood]

May 17th

temp 6
conditions - Raining - fog - windy - cold and damp
Animals - totally fed up
Chickens - wind blown and soaked
Me - pulling my hair out (whats left )

 

[jodief100]

We are 9 inches above "normal" for rainfall for the year. Every step you take in the barnyard is "squish", pull your boot out of the mud and "squish" again.

Last week was hot, in the 90's, this week is cold, 50's with lows in the 30's.

The goats are all sleeping in the hayrack because it is the only dry place in the barn. I feel bad but I can't clean out the winter yuck because I can't even get a wheelbarrow across the mud without it sinking let alone the tractor. I keep putting more straw down but it will stay dry for about an hour.

At least the kidding stalls are dry. I opened the empty one last night and this morning it was full of wall to wall goat!

The chicks and turkeys are in the storage area of the barn with the tractor!

I know some people have it much worse so I am thankfull that this is all.

Rain in the forcast untill Friday.

 

[savingdogs]

Jodie my goat barn is okay, but I feel bad for my chickens....I can't seem to get their run to drain and they have to walk through a small lake to go from their coop to their run. And the SMELL.....gross! I usually don't think my chickens smell but poop soup is horrific. I have someone coming to buy some chickens too and I'm not sure how to make the area look more presentable. I guess there isn't really, but they don't usually live like that! I can't seem to get the coop to dry out very well either from them walking through water to get in.

 

[Royd Wood]

I have someone coming to buy some chickens too and I'm not sure how to make the area look more presentable. I guess there isn't really, but they don't usually live like that! I can't seem to get the coop to dry out very well either from them walking through water to get in.

I know what you mean as we have a farm shop selling everything and spend more time explaining the unusual spring = mud mud mud than the actual products and as for chicken poo soup

 

[savingdogs]

Well I shoveled out a whole bunch of wet stuff today and sprinkled a little pine shavings over the top and what a difference! It was a good thing I wrote down my intentions here, if not, I might have pooped out and gone nah.........but now I'm glad I did. I tried to make a trough for the water to drain out of there instead of making Lake Chickenpoo.

 

[Royd Wood]

Lake Chickenpoo
Venture further down our place and there's Lake Cowpatty

 

[elevan]

We gave up on the ground drying out any. We planted our garden veggies in pots. My DH carries our cochin hen out of the coop every day (or she wouldn't leave it). We put together a make shift bridge for the goats to be able to get out into the field.