How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Storms

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Storms

Laura, I am so sorry Splashie died in the storm. You could see if your roosters will take on the all of the chicks and finish raising them up. Put them all in at night around the two roosters in the dark, and check them in the morning. If you need more nn silkies I have a blue, gray, and a partridge with penciling 2.5 months old. 
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM Michigan

    From: Laura A. Roberts   <laura0554@hughes.net>
 To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:34 PM
 Subject: RE: [CHICKENS-101] Storms

            OMG,  I can't believe that storm last night.  It seemed to have come from  nowhere and I was expecting to see a witch bicycling by the window!  Our  deck furniture went flying, we lost power until 5am and the roof on two of the  coops flew off!  Sadly, one of the coops had my Splashie in it and she was  dead this morning.  I think the roof may have crushed her before being  lifted……not sure, but she is gone.  

            Everyone  else seems no worse for wear and we repaired the rooftops, today.  Also  put electrolytes in everyone's water and made sure fans were running and  shade was available to all.  

            I  have some Silkies chicks that are almost four months old.  I am selling  some but keeping some and want to integrate them in with Chi chi  (Splashie's  BFF)  and the two boys, Barty and Ichibod.  So, my thought is to  gradually add hens to the coop, one at a time in the evening when it is dark  and sleepy time.  I plan to keep a black hen, blue hen, buff hen.   The little cockerels are going to be kept separate and I don't want to  add them to this mix- I think Barty and Icky will hurt them.  Any  thoughts?  

Laura
PS- Cathryn,  Splashie and Chi chi  were two that you sent me awhile back.  

Laura  Roberts
R Half Pint  Farm
Spotsylvania, VA  

From: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com [mailto: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Pat & Valerie
  Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 6:00  PM
  To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Storms

Well the storms  last night roared though here in central Virginia .  We were just getting ready for bed when they hit. I was sitting on the bed and  felt the house shake. My first thought was" great an earthquake on top of  the storm". Lol Hubby and I went out to check and found it was a pine  tree that had come down and the top tip of it hit the porch on our end of the  house. No damage to the house, but it came down straight across our chicken  tractor with the babies in it. Fortunately it only came down on the run and  they were closed in the coop for the night. We had to get up first thing this  morning and get the tree off the run and do a quick rigging job to get it to a  point where we could let the babies out. Got that taken care of and cut up the  rest of the tree. Then went out front where a tree had started to come down and  got hung up on the tree beside it. Hubby got it pulled down into the woods. We  have leaf litter and debris all over the yard, but no damage to life or  property other than the chicken run. Oh yeah, power was out from 10:00 till 6  this morning.
Valerie in Va.
NutnFancy  Homestead.