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Sounds like a beautiful setup. Pictures when you have it where you want to show it off. I keep my chicken, quail and dog feed in metal trashcans in convenient locations. Plastic gets chewed through. Metal gets pooped on. Thankfully, I haven't had any issues since I went with the steel. We...

There is nothing like jumping into something head first. Sit back and enjoy learning. Have you researched integration of old birds with younger ones? You should keep the chicks separated from the adults for 3-6 weeks. The see-no-touch method is best and I use a chicken tractor for the...

No damage. No trees down. I'm east of Houston and caught a small band that dropped a lot of rain. I'll check my gauge later. But the ditches handled it this time so less than 5 inches.

I survived. Still have power. I know NW Houston is out of power and cleaning up a lot of trees. Hope everyone is good this morning. The Trinity was flood stage last week and will be flood stage this week again. Drive safe.

Think positive! Put on a cheerful attitude. I am not having to shovel snow this winter and there isn't any ice on the roads. I don't have bears in my coop and the family is getting along. I ran the squirrels off the mulberries and now we have mocking birds and blue jays getting fat. The...

Good Morning! I was surprised by the weather forecast saying 2.5" predicted. The numbers are usually an average, so we are going to get drowneded again. The mosquitoes are going to love it. :hmm

Driving to San Marcos & the hail got the windshield. No place to take shelter on the two lane roads north of Luling. I think we only got to golf ball size & that was plenty. Scary stuff with bad winds.

And then what would we complain about? :lau Although, I know a few of us have a list.

Oh, neighbor’s rain gauge registered 5-1/2” for Monday’s toad drowning thunderstorm.

2-1/2”. We lived. Yard is a standing quagmire. It'll take a week to drain.

It didn't taper. I just needs to bugger off now.

My range gauge topped out at 5 inches Monday morning. The water filled the ditches and the yard but lapping at the house was upsetting. We are getting hammered right now. The storm basins/mosquito farms are still full. Let's hope for a quick, light shower and then it can bugger off.

Given a balance diet, no electrolytes needed. They were invented for people on the American diet. Indiana is nice. I remember the snows. Chickens came from a rain forest. They like the heat more than the cold but will survive both given food and shelter. They'll be fine. You're gonna...

Shredded yard waste is whatever the county residents drop off and the county drops in the grinder or shredder. Leaves, grass clippings, trees of all kinds, palm fronds, banana plants, old mulch and what ever. The best is green and brown parts that compost quickly. This really isn't mulch but...

I would encourage you to add the coop cleanout a compost pile in the chicken yard. The chickens will stir and aerate it. The little rain you get will hold in the piles. Magic will happen. After 3-6 months, I open the compost pile sides (4 pallets wired together) and the chickens knock it...

Poop stinks. Poop on the ground stinks. I started with hard packed clay soil and the poop stank. I brought in shredded yard waste from the county dump for free. Think wood chips or mulch or compost. Depending on when and how long the pile had set, I was getting all three in the same used...

Yep, mine have frozen for the last 3 years. This year wasn't all the way to the ground though. Another 18 months before possible bananas ripen, if we don't freeze next winter. They've spoiled me. Taste so much richer than store bananas. I'd offer some banana pups but don't get to Angleton...

Were the red banana plants established? My chickens will eat all the leaves on the bananas until they are 3' tall. My bananas are thriving with all the fertilizer.

Tin doesn't kill but the heat does. If you have adequate ventilation and a large enough coop, you can do it. Ventilation is the key, so don't make an oven. My original birds hung out under the coop in the cool dirt. Then the bananas grew up and now they hang out in the banana circle in the...

My last house had Walmart move in down the street. Time to move. This house has a Walmart that opened halfway to the big Walmart. It's getting closer. Then the Dollar General that opened around the corner and the not so convenient convenient stores are multiplying as the rice fields get...