dendrite

58/53 with some sun Muggiest feel since January.

ineedtherapy?

A few flakes in the Berks. Exciting.

Up to an inch of rain. 48° This is a dogshit May pattern. Can’t spin it. We’ll take sun and 55-65 days, but it’s pulling teeth to get even 1 decent 70° day.

Yeah...I have no idea if he’s on here, but the “we” post was suspicious. He probably lurks. Either that or he got the “we” thing from Kevin on twitter. He seems kinda sarcastic and pessimistic like us so it wouldn’t surprise me if he peeks in here from time to time and even gets a laugh.

Wish he would just post. He seems like he’d fit in with us well.

What are you using for posts? Basic round PT posts rated for ground contact? My 4x4 posts in my run I used concrete and went down 24”. So I have 6ft AGL with the posts.

A sultry 41° and -RA here.

"we green" He should just post and not lurk.

Post trough on 7/22/11 definitely felt better than pre-trough on 7/21/11.

Are they getting up to the feeders or bottom feeding?

Nice. We have a pileated around as I hear him daily. My orioles haven’t arrived yet, but based on your photo I should probably consider putting the oranges out.

Mine wait for me every morning to put the feeders back out. They love the berry blend mix. Beautiful bird although the female is kind of a drab brown. Not her fault though.

I doubt it at his current location. Maybe Mitch’s new spot though?

Maybe even a summer without it hitting 80°?

We 44F

This will be the first time ever that the warmest temperature for JFMA at BOS occurred in January.

62F in 1893 will prevent CON from tying their next coolest of 66F from 1924 and 1937. 1st time they haven't had April 70s since 1995.

Yeah we talked a few times when I was starting out. Seems like roos are more likely to have sudden heart attacks. Makes me wonder if it’s from the layer feed. I assume excess calcium gets deposited into the arteries and calcifies. I probably should’ve used a grower or starter feed high in protein and lower in Ca and just let the hens supplement with oyster shell as needed. He was from a breeder and was a month from being 3 y/o so I suspected he would be fine for awhile. We often joked that he’d be the last one standing.

Yeah. We just don’t display it. We don’t have a lot trying to get in...yet. The coop is elevated off the ground 2 1/2ft and we have hawk netting over the run and coop down to the ground. Anything trying to get in risks getting tangled.

More downs than ups cranky. lol

He showed no signs of anything. I think he just had a heart attack or he got something down his windpipe. He was in o ne of the many holes he loves to dig. He would nestle himself in there and chirp to call one of his girls over. Maybe he swallowed some dirt down the trachea and got a little too excited. No idea. Just sucks. We never wanted a roo, but he certainly grew on us. He didn’t crow much, was a gentleman to his ladies (minus the Weinstein mounting), and was a good watch dog. He was great with me and Lisa too. The flock must go on though although the dynamic will greatly change.

New record low max for CON for the day...40F. Old record was a very vulnerable 43F from 1933. Most of the records around this date are U30s.