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unicornduke replied to your post “ugh it’s so hot! it’s so hot. I don’t mind so much for myself, I can…”
oh my gosh. sending good thoughts to you guys that you don’t lose anymore
We made it through the day with no more fatalities. B-I-L spent almost all day out there trying different things to help them. It’s extremely likely that what killed so many of them was the fact that their waterer was in the sunshine and they wouldn’t walk in the sun to get to it, because they are market-weight slaughter-fattened chickens with no real mobility and also zero survival instinct. He spent forever determining that their water was not too hot to drink, and basically wound up shielding the pasture pens with his body, as it turned out; he managed to get a sunburn in the tiny area of body that he missed with the sunscreen this morning. He’s a bit cranky.
I drove out to Fort Plain (exit 29 on the Thruway, about 65 miles away) to pick up the just-hatched chicks for our next batch– everyone agreed it’s Way Too Hot to mail chicks. While we were there, we picked up a batch due to be shipped to another farm an additional 30 miles east of us, so that they could just come get them at our farm instead of driving 90 miles each way. They were extremely grateful, and among all of us we lost not one chick.
the-last-hair-bender replied to your post “ugh it’s so hot! it’s so hot. I don’t mind so much for myself, I can…”
Sending you hugs. :(
Thanks! I’m not the one really really upset by it. I’m still sad, though.
missbuster replied to your post “It is so hot. It is SO HOT. ”
Oh god it is. I’m on the other side of Lake Ontario from you and I hate everything.
THIS WeATHer SUCKS
unicornduke replied to your post “It is so hot. It is SO HOT. ”
I’m going to melt tomorrow. Also I’m going to wake up at like 4 am and hopefully I won’t surprise the farms I need to visit by getting there so early. stay cool!!!
I am imagining if you turned up here at 5am, what we would do. I was awake at that hour, but Whiskey-cat and I were lying in bed listening to a really elaborate and noisy squirrel serenade. I don’t think there’d be anyone to greet you. Anytime before 7, it’d be people in their PJs at best.
ms-daphne replied to your post “It is so hot. It is SO HOT. ”
Yeah also in the northeast and I am DYING.
UGHHHH
wyomingnot replied to your post “It is so hot. It is SO HOT. ”
here too. i melted a couple of times yesterday walking to/from work. not leaving the comfort of my apartment today. :)
WORST. This weather is the worst. Apparently we’re breaking records.
B-I-L, a native Midwesterner, keeps saying bemusedly, “I know I used to deal with temps like this all the time before I moved here but I guess I’m just out of practice? I might be dying.”
It turns out the weather constantly sucks in the Midwest, I hadn’t entirely realized that before now.
(Your picture was not posted)
unicornduke replied to your post “ugh it’s so hot! it’s so hot. I don’t mind so much for myself, I can…”
oh my gosh. sending good thoughts to you guys that you don’t lose anymore
We made it through the day with no more fatalities. B-I-L spent almost all day out there trying different things to help them. It’s extremely likely that what killed so many of them was the fact that their waterer was in the sunshine and they wouldn’t walk in the sun to get to it, because they are market-weight slaughter-fattened chickens with no real mobility and also zero survival instinct. He spent forever determining that their water was not too hot to drink, and basically wound up shielding the pasture pens with his body, as it turned out; he managed to get a sunburn in the tiny area of body that he missed with the sunscreen this morning. He’s a bit cranky.
I drove out to Fort Plain (exit 29 on the Thruway, about 65 miles away) to pick up the just-hatched chicks for our next batch– everyone agreed it’s Way Too Hot to mail chicks. While we were there, we picked up a batch due to be shipped to another farm an additional 30 miles east of us, so that they could just come get them at our farm instead of driving 90 miles each way. They were extremely grateful, and among all of us we lost not one chick.
the-last-hair-bender replied to your post “ugh it’s so hot! it’s so hot. I don’t mind so much for myself, I can…”
Sending you hugs. :(
Thanks! I’m not the one really really upset by it. I’m still sad, though.
missbuster replied to your post “It is so hot. It is SO HOT. ”
Oh god it is. I’m on the other side of Lake Ontario from you and I hate everything.
THIS WeATHer SUCKS
unicornduke replied to your post “It is so hot. It is SO HOT. ”
I’m going to melt tomorrow. Also I’m going to wake up at like 4 am and hopefully I won’t surprise the farms I need to visit by getting there so early. stay cool!!!
I am imagining if you turned up here at 5am, what we would do. I was awake at that hour, but Whiskey-cat and I were lying in bed listening to a really elaborate and noisy squirrel serenade. I don’t think there’d be anyone to greet you. Anytime before 7, it’d be people in their PJs at best.
ms-daphne replied to your post “It is so hot. It is SO HOT. ”
Yeah also in the northeast and I am DYING.
UGHHHH
wyomingnot replied to your post “It is so hot. It is SO HOT. ”
here too. i melted a couple of times yesterday walking to/from work. not leaving the comfort of my apartment today. :)
WORST. This weather is the worst. Apparently we’re breaking records.
B-I-L, a native Midwesterner, keeps saying bemusedly, “I know I used to deal with temps like this all the time before I moved here but I guess I’m just out of practice? I might be dying.”
It turns out the weather constantly sucks in the Midwest, I hadn’t entirely realized that before now.
(Your picture was not posted)
