Muddy chickens
Mar. 15th, 2010 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farlaThe weather is absolutely terrible. We have the chickens up close to the house, but the result is they're on a slope. Their run is sludge (the fact they dug pits certainly didn't help) and they've covered in mud now. They have a hay bale in there but it's clearly not enough. It's a good thing half of it collapsed under the rain so we have to take them in at night, or we might not even have realized how bad it's gotten in there. Just bringing Fluffles in tonight got her soaked worse, because the ramp to the coop was so slippery she kept falling back down before she could get in. It took her five or six tries to get to in so I could pick her up.
Luckily the base we set up in the coop to keep them from getting too cold is working much better than we ever intended, so that whole area's still dry. But they just don't dry off in there, it's too humid.
It's supposed to stop raining eventually, but I don't know if things will actually dry off.
On the brighter side, the weather's uncharacteristic for now like it is every year. So the climate shift may have finally moved spring up instead of down. (Or we might just have an even longer wet not-spring...) So if it does dry off the chickens will be able to go out and eat greens again. They definitely want that.
Luckily the base we set up in the coop to keep them from getting too cold is working much better than we ever intended, so that whole area's still dry. But they just don't dry off in there, it's too humid.
It's supposed to stop raining eventually, but I don't know if things will actually dry off.
On the brighter side, the weather's uncharacteristic for now like it is every year. So the climate shift may have finally moved spring up instead of down. (Or we might just have an even longer wet not-spring...) So if it does dry off the chickens will be able to go out and eat greens again. They definitely want that.
