4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Old Speckled Hen]

I nearly titled this post Armageddon.

What's happening?

It's dark as night at 7pm, it's raining so hard I can't see 5 yards .... had to chase chooks in with a treat and shut them up for the night.

SKY has given up and my tele is blank.

What's happening???

[Louise]

I hope its not heading in my direction

 

I have to drive home in a couple of hours and I am sooooooo tired from work the last thing I need is a monsoon to drive through

 

Stay dry

[Chicken Licken]

Further south and further east than you but thunder and lightning and torrential rain here this evening - yuck.

[jackiepoppies]

 

We've had sun and a light breeze all day!

 

Jackiex

[Louise]

Leaving for home now (been here since 8 this morning )

 

Please wish me a quiet drive I couldn't cope with weather from hell

[Egluntyne]

Glorious morning here....but downhill all the way since about noon.

 

So cold here now that I have for a fleece and some socks on.

[mrsallen08]

Glorious morning here....but downhill all the way since about noon.

 

So cold here now that I have for a fleece and some socks on.

 

Same as here Egluntine. This morning isn't looking tooo bad though, fingers crossed chooks dry out today!

[abwsco]

We've just had a fantastic thunder and lightening storm here. Mind you wasn't impressed with the sideways rain

[Old Speckled Hen]

We've just had a fantastic thunder and lightening storm here. Mind you wasn't impressed with the sideways rain

 

More forecast today.

Would have thought us folk in Lancashire and Cumbria were used to horizontal rain.

Feel sorry for chooks though

My run is roofed over but I've just ordered a tarp for the winter to keep the rain and wind out from the side .

[abwsco]

We've just had a fantastic thunder and lightening storm here. Mind you wasn't impressed with the sideways rain

 

More forecast today.

Would have thought us folk in Lancashire and Cumbria were used to horizontal rain.

Feel sorry for chooks though

My run is roofed over but I've just ordered a tarp for the winter to keep the rain and wind out from the side .

 

My run is roofed as well but I think we're going to have to get something to cover the sides. Have wondered about tarp but am bothered about it being too flappy in the wind.

[chickencam]

It is chucking it down here again today, we had sunshine and showers yesterday and very strong cold wind, very autumnal

 

The forecast is even worse for tomorrow.

 

We covered our run with long corrugated clear plastic sheets over the bank holiday weekend when we changed the bark chipping to try to keep the girls dry but a fair amount of water has dripped in off the sides already.

 

I have lost several sunflowers which have snapped in the wind and the ones that have flowered have had sad little flowers on them as though they didn't dare to show their faces in the rain The sweetcorn on the allotment isn't ripening either because of the lack of sun.

[Egluntyne]

Gorgeous here this morning....but deteriorated to puring rain.....again ....and a promise of bad weather till Sunday from the weatherman.

[Old Speckled Hen]

To his utter shame I had to put a waterproof coat on my collie this morning, the chooks are huddled in the hedge with a frantic foray onto the grass in between rainstorms, there is a river running down the lane and I've put the heating on

[The Dogmother]

It has been vile pretty much all day here too. The papers are promising very stormy conditions on Friday - a legacy of the hurricane in the US apparently

[Egluntyne]

Gorgeous here now...blue sky and sunshine....so I've just let the hens out for a while.

 

The weather seems to change every 10 mins.

[Clash City Rocker]

Gorgeous here this morning....but deteriorated to puring rain.....again :

 

"puring rain"?

 

must be raining cats & dogs

[Egluntyne]

More like stair rods.

[chelsea]

absolutely AWFUL weather here I havent seen rain as heavy as this for a long time.

 

It rained all night and has been raining non stop today, I think there is going to be some flooding in places. My poor little chooks are looking very miserable.

[MedusA]

I'm so fed up with this constant rain.

 

I have jobs to do at the allotment (like digging potatoes) which are best done on a nice sunny day when the soil is dry and crumbly.

 

I wish!!!

[Cate in NZ]

Hate to say it, but lovely weather here today and a very pleasant weekend forecast. Sunday is Father's Day over here, so S&I are planning on practising their barbecuing skills on hubby in lieu of a gift

[chelsea]

I see northern scotland is having beautiful sunshine!

 

We are off to Skye in 2 weeks time, what is the betting when we go the horrible weather will follow us and Devon will be blazing in sunshine eh?!

[The Dogmother]

It has been lashing down here all night and all this morning so far, with no let up in sight

 

Apparently it's the aftermath of the US hurricane.. why on earth they feel the need to share it with us is beyond me!

 

Katem I could really go off you Hon

[JM]

It's horrible here as well. We got totally soaked dog walking in the woods earlier!

 

We moved the cube to No 2 position at the weekend to give the ground a rest - but the new position is slightly more exposed than the last, but it is on grass (or was!). The run is covered with plastic sheeting held down with bungies and the Omlet cover along the side of the run, but the rain is running down the bungies into the run! The middle is dry though.

 

Luckily yesterday (between the showers - when it was sunny and warm), we cut up the old roosting bars to make 2 roosts for the run - so the girls can sit above the ground (they've got a high one and a low one - spoiled for choice!). The rest of the garden is totally soggy - so I'm not letting them out of their run today as it doesn't look like it's going to stop raining anytime soon!

[The Dogmother]

I let mine out of the run this morning and they gave me a look that said 'you must be joking Mum'. I expect that they will spend all day under the cover of their run.

[JM]

The other day they were out and about when it was raining heavily - Bunty stayed under cover, but greed got the better of the other two and they ended up looking like drowned rats!! (Happy as anything, but they did look funny!) I relented that night and let them sleep in the warm and cosy nest box!!