I had no idea the temperature had such great oscillations over there in Victoria ... nightmare!

 

Your birds come through okay.

Another hot day in Perth Western Australia. The birds in the flights had drunk all their water by 11am. They now have double the amount of fresh water in the large drinkers and extra bowls of water to paddle through and bathe in. Even the cage drinkers water felt warm to the touch. Noone but noone can convince me icecubes arent a good way to go.

Edited January 17, 201015 yr by KAZ

Yes, it really is a scorcher today. We are taking refuge inside the air conditioned house but the birds are stuck outside ... it is on days like these that I picture a state of the art facility with air con for my little darlings

 

Ice cubes in drinkers, sprinkler system on .... now we have to wait and see. I can hear the young uns carrying on so at least that is a good sign.

Gotta agree with the ice cubes Kaz!

I went throught nearly 12 trays of 12 in the cooler on Monday when it reached 48 here. It still got up to 38 in the aviary but I reckon that was pretty good considering how damn hot it was!

I didn't lose any birds over our heat wave & today they are like GB, we have gone from over 40 for the last 2 weeks to 29 today!

Time for a jumper I think!

Yes, it really is a scorcher today. We are taking refuge inside the air conditioned house but the birds are stuck outside ... it is on days like these that I picture a state of the art facility with air con for my little darlings

 

Ice cubes in drinkers, sprinkler system on .... now we have to wait and see. I can hear the young uns carrying on so at least that is a good sign.

Current temperature in the shade 41.9C at 16.30 ... and that is here, near the coast .... can't imagine what it is like more inland near you Kaz

Yes, it really is a scorcher today. We are taking refuge inside the air conditioned house but the birds are stuck outside ... it is on days like these that I picture a state of the art facility with air con for my little darlings

 

Ice cubes in drinkers, sprinkler system on .... now we have to wait and see. I can hear the young uns carrying on so at least that is a good sign.

Current temperature in the shade 41.9C at 16.30 ... and that is here, near the coast .... can't imagine what it is like more inland near you Kaz

Well it is official : today was the hottest January day in Perth since 1991.

It was hot all right here is WA. I lost two hens and two other birds arn't lloking so good. Quick dunk into some cool water and drip water into beak. Cross fingers. it is 1838 hrs here and in my loungeroom it is 34.5 C as my aircon is not working. My timer system for the sprinklers dies this morning so I have to hand water. Back to work tomorrow so I hope we don't get to hot during the week as no one is home to do anything should things go pear shaped.

It was hot all right here is WA. I lost two hens and two other birds arn't lloking so good. Quick dunk into some cool water and drip water into beak. Cross fingers. it is 1838 hrs here and in my loungeroom it is 34.5 C as my aircon is not working. My timer system for the sprinklers dies this morning so I have to hand water. Back to work tomorrow so I hope we don't get to hot during the week as no one is home to do anything should things go pear shaped.

Jeeze RIP, that's no good, sorry to hear about your losses

 

... and unfortunately tomorrow is forecast to hit 39C

wow, you guys are doing it tough.

 

Does this weather happen every year? When I was over there last summer it was 42-44 degrees. Is this a normal thing for Perth?

Near on 7:30 and the temperature in the flights is 37 degrees celcius. All happy and chirpy though, Sorry to hear about the deaths RIP

wow, you guys are doing it tough.Does this weather happen every year? When I was over there last summer it was 42-44 degrees. Is this a normal thing for Perth?

I remember one summer once getting to 46 and 47 degrees.

Its been terribly hot here too. We've not even had the slightest hint of a breeze. I've been out four times today to check on my birds and give them a spray and some more ice in their water. They all like the ground at the moment, and their vegie plate - must be nice and cool for them. I thought Mrs Santa had passed as she was lying on the ground, but she had made a sand "nest" on the ground to keep cool.

 

I'm sorry for your losses RIP Its not nice weather for our poor feathered friends. I hope you don't have any more losses.

 

Dave, its always horrible and hot in the summer here, i'd be much happier if the temp got no higher than 30c Sadly that only happens in Autumn, Winter and Spring.

wow, you guys are doing it tough.

 

Does this weather happen every year? When I was over there last summer it was 42-44 degrees. Is this a normal thing for Perth?

Yes. We can only hope that we get a peak and then it cools off for a bit before peaking again .... if we get a run of scorchers one after the other it really gets difficult.

I had no idea the temperature had such great oscillations over there in Victoria ... nightmare! Your birds come through okay.

well its been nothing but wind and rain today and yesterday half hot then frezzing again and rain at night my goodness i will be lucky if anything lives at this rate im beginning to think they all have come down with a common cold due to weather changes over few weeks and lack of amunity due to long time corse of doxcy i probo for three days but really they need more than pro bo for a cold i just dont know what my hens with the chicks in nest the cock birds are catching flu and im worryed their also know i through a blanket over cabinets so night chill stays off and day time wind so sorry about you birds rip it sucks hay :

Edited January 17, 201015 yr by GenericBlue

I had no idea the temperature had such great oscillations over there in Victoria ... nightmare! Your birds come through okay.

well its been nothing but wind and rain today and yesterday half hot then frezzing again and rain at night my goodness i will be lucky if anything lives at this rate im beginning to think they all have come down with a common cold due to weather changes over few weeks and lack of amunity due to long time corse of doxcy i probo for three days but really they need more than pro bo for a cold i just dont know what my hens with the chicks in nest the cock birds are catching flu and im worryed their also know i through a blanket over cabinets so night chill stays off and day time wind so sorry about you birds rip it sucks hay :

Crazy weather as always - cool over with you and boiling here

I had no idea the temperature had such great oscillations over there in Victoria ... nightmare! Your birds come through okay.

well its been nothing but wind and rain today and yesterday half hot then frezzing again and rain at night my goodness i will be lucky if anything lives at this rate im beginning to think they all have come down with a common cold due to weather changes over few weeks and lack of amunity due to long time corse of doxcy i probo for three days but really they need more than pro bo for a cold i just dont know what my hens with the chicks in nest the cock birds are catching flu and im worryed their also know i through a blanket over cabinets so night chill stays off and day time wind so sorry about you birds rip it sucks hay :

Crazy weather as always - cool over with you and boiling here

 

its really interesting to see the difrences even just from one corrner of your state to the next

my mum gets sun and hot 15 minits away i get ******* down rain and wind from ***

The two birds I had to wet down seem to have made it through, barely. Both are eating and perching tonight. Hope tomorrow doesn't become their undoing. It is 2127 hrs currently and it is still 32.3 C in my lounge room. Aircon don't get fixed till Tuesday. I have been sleeping in my swag on the lounge room floor as this is the coolest place during the night if a breeze comes through the window.

 

I might just pull the breeders tomorrow as not eggs are laid to worry about and place them in the other flight. I am trying to rig up something to get them though tomorrow. Although the containers are full it is so hot that the water in them gets to hot to drink. I need a larger container so water does not heat up during day.

The two birds I had to wet down seem to have made it through, barely. Both are eating and perching tonight. Hope tomorrow doesn't become their undoing. It is 2127 hrs currently and it is still 32.3 C in my lounge room. Aircon don't get fixed till Tuesday. I have been sleeping in my swag on the lounge room floor as this is the coolest place during the night if a breeze comes through the window.

 

I might just pull the breeders tomorrow as not eggs are laid to worry about and place them in the other flight. I am trying to rig up something to get them though tomorrow. Although the containers are full it is so hot that the water in them gets to hot to drink. I need a larger container so water does not heat up during day.

i froze my extra ginni pig drinkers so by time the fresh morning water gets hot the cold frozen water will start to melt i thought of this as mum useto freeze out preemers in summer wrap them in a tea towel and they would be icey cold still at lunch with a bit to sip up

now just waiting for heat again

The two birds I had to wet down seem to have made it through, barely. Both are eating and perching tonight. Hope tomorrow doesn't become their undoing. It is 2127 hrs currently and it is still 32.3 C in my lounge room. Aircon don't get fixed till Tuesday. I have been sleeping in my swag on the lounge room floor as this is the coolest place during the night if a breeze comes through the window.

 

I might just pull the breeders tomorrow as not eggs are laid to worry about and place them in the other flight. I am trying to rig up something to get them though tomorrow. Although the containers are full it is so hot that the water in them gets to hot to drink. I need a larger container so water does not heat up during day.

 

You need large iceblocks in your budgies drinking water.

Very normal unfortunately.

 

It was 34 degrees here at 7pm sheesh. Then at 9pm it was 25 so the lights and the cooler went off. It was actually pretty nice in the breeding room but the birds in the aviary went ot ground and stayed there until evening. No losses and chickies hatching with no problems thankfully.

 

I was having trouble keeping the cooler filled as the hose poked in thingo was a good idea but running pump & bore means that i couldn't get the tap to run slow enough as to overfill the thing without it stopping all together. Sooooo we had to replace the d troughs in the dog runs so we pillaged the little float system out of one of the old ones and installed it into the water cooler. Bingo - power on water on and the thing stays half full indefinitely.

 

Nipple drinker system is working a treat and it seems that, even though the lines might be at 40-whatever degrees it is, the little drips hanging off the nipple fittings have a great Coolgardie Safe effect.

 

Hopefully all goes smoothly today whilst we are both out for work.

I have to say that Sydney weather is usually good. We do nto get the cold nights that much, nor the really hot days. Occassionally we have a really hot day, but 35-36 degrees it usually it. one day a summer it will get above 40, but that is unusual.

Well it is 10am and the mercury is on the rise ... currently 31C in the shade. :sadsorry:

 

Drinkers are done, fresh seed supplied and sprinkler will be going on as it approaches 35C.

 

No fatalities yesterday :hap: Yes, they went to ground and looked more like drowned rats than show budgies but when the temperature dropped a bit they were all back on the perches and chirping away.

A very hot dry easterly wind of sorts down at the aviary and breeding room complex right now although the breeding room is always cooler. I froze full cups of water last night into large iceblocks and have put one or two in each of the large drinkers and can replace through the day as the drinkers water ends up somewhere between lukewarm and warm during the day without it.

42 degrees Celcius so far :sadsorry:

Thats 107.6 degrees fahrenheit

Edited January 18, 201015 yr by KAZ

42 degrees Celcius so far :hap:

Thats 107.6 degrees fahrenheit

Yep, just checked the thermometer under the vaerandah ... 42C here as well .... Auuuuugh! :sadsorry:

Temperature guage in my flights says 46 degrees :sadsorry: All birds good....a lot on perches not all on the floor. More large icechunks put in drinkers and large baths added for splashing of water.