Pasha Ithink i asked you this before but are your flock for food? I know you said you ate most of your turkeys, but do you eat your geese and ducks too? just curious if yours are pets, alot of us in the USA only have our birds for pets.I was born here (in Moscow), and don`t know any another weather )) Only one time i was in Germany in one house of any german farmer, but i was there, hmmm, i don`t remember, 15 year ago (i was very young). Another times i never travel again, only was in some towns in the Rusia. This temperature are normal for me, sometimes when i go to my chiken-houses (where live my geeses, chickens, ducks...) i don`t wear warm clothes, wear only the shoes and go (i am too lazy for wear it every time when i need to feed my fowl).
But when we begin to have more as +25 C i feel me bad, i can`t work well under the sun, i don`t like when the weather are too warm ))) When i work under the sun i use a hat with feathers, my neighbours laugh because nobody here use a feathers for decorate a hats, but this is not imortant for me. If i always have a feathers, of course my hat will be decorated
In the winter i used for my fowl the stoves, for example my chikens had always +15 C in the room. Only the geese had a frost in geese`s room, but i changed a water (any people tell that the geese cat eat the snow, but i don`t do that - i bring the water every day), and feed my goose well.
I have only one problem: i wait when the snow melts, becaurse i want to take all dirty grass (old litter) from the rooms of my fowl and bring it to my little field (and to clean the floors, and bring new litter to this rooms, now i can only put it on top, on dirty litter). In the autumn i leaved some old dirty litter in the fields, but now i don`t remember, where i did that, and where not (everywhere are the snow and i can`t see). I use an old litter where slept my fowl in the fields before to plant corn, potatoes and another plants.
When the snow will melt, i will have much work ))) And then i will buy new fowl too (i have my incubator, but it are too small, i need more fowl. I am greedy)