Our shell peas are done for the season. Sadly, we did not get what we should have due to lack of rain.
Speaking of lack of rain...everyone is on edge here at the homestead. Not sure if it's just the heat and drought, or what's going on in the world. Lots of agitation, anxiety, depression, mood swings, and lack of patience. I know I am tired of all of it.
Speaking of lack of rain...everyone is on edge here at the homestead. Not sure if it's just the heat and drought, or what's going on in the world. Lots of agitation, anxiety, depression, mood swings, and lack of patience. I know I am tired of all of it.
I've been icing the chickens. They are so hot they are panting in this heat.


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On the valley floor where I lived before moving I. ‘06 it was often a month of 110-113 degree days with a low of 75 at 5 in the AM. My daughter used frozen liter water bottles to cool her angora rabbit project. The goats did well with increased water consumption. The chickens enjoyed a large chunk of frozen ice twice a day in their waterer. The Pyrenees are dual coated and that creates a cooling as well as a heating system. They also dug large craters to lie in . Also the Nubians joined in.
In over twenty years of raising livestock we rarely lost anything or anyone to heat. And it was always poultry usually a chicken.
Try freezing some kernel corn in water of quart container. They go nuts over it and it helps to cool them as it takes awhile to defrost even on the hottest of days.