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A tragic and noble end to the story, this chapter of it, anyway: I was putting the chickens up for the night a bit ago, and walked in, just to look back in the corner where she was brooding. She was sitting there. I didn't want to disturb her, but I stepped closer while my eyes adjusted to the...

Thank you, we now have 2" of snow on the ground, believe it or not, here in the Ozarks, but I checked on her and she's doing okay, hanging tough! Hopefully she'll be fine, she is in the dry and out of the wind.

We have a hen who just began setting, looks like, on a couple of eggs on the ground where she usually lays, in a nest made of wood shavings and leaves, inside the coop. We're expecting freezing weather tonight. Nobody told her winter isn't quite over, I guess. Will she give it up, or stay there...

So, what's the update on the submission count, before the contest is closed and judging begins?

We had an egg drought for most of the winter. They were eating their eggs, or at least one of them was. I tried everything: putting ping pong balls in their roosts, giving them crushed oyster shells, checking more often...finally I think one of the possums which was depleting my flock until I...

Don said "They are goats with wings." Exactly right, from what I've seen.

If the contest takes longer to be judged, I might have to write a sequel. I've now had to shoot the fourth possum I caught in the coop going after our poor little hens, in as many months.

We had our first snow of the season last night: just a couple of inches, but it was a hard freeze. After I let the chickens out of their coop into the yard, I brought them some extra chopped corn and wild bird seed, for the extra calories to keep them warm, before I brought them fresh warm...

I've yet to find any leftover human food that the little mini-velociraptors won't eat.

Yes fish food is fine. So is cat food, for that matter. Mine love it.

Our chickens eat all of our scraps and left-overs, whatever we do. I'm glad to read that others do the same. Chickens should not live on chops alone.

Metal actually conducts both heat and cold more quickly than plastic, even if plastic obviously has a lower melting point. So, metal will thaw and freeze more quickly.

I just noticed my hens ganged up and turned over one of their water containers, but they have two more. Since they produced two eggs yesterday and two the day before after a long, eggless lull, I'll give them a pass, this time, and refill it. It's nice that it's currently above freezing here, at...

This morning it was slightly above freezing. Sometimes I've been leaving one container of water in their coop, to make sure that it stays thawn, even though they don't drink at night. When it gets colder, I'll put a heat lamp running off of a drop cord in there, too, that will keep the...

Ah, ok. Very clever, Teila. I just went by the discount place that often gets things that fall off of trucks, and they had a bin that was marked "free for pig feed", so my chickens just got three jars of expired mayonnaise and three bottles of some kind of red Mexican chile soda. LOL Do you...

Lazy Gardener, I thought that was cute. LOL "Vegetarian Fed".

Plastic has a higher melting temperature than water's boiling temperature, so you should be fine. I'd use something like that if I had it, I'm hauling fresh warm water out to them every morning because theirs freezes every night, now.

Our chickens are cannibals, they eat anything, just like their velociraptor ancestors. They neither know nor care if it was their roost-mate yesterday they're eating today. Just don't feed brains to them, they might get mad chicken disease from the prions. Shudder. JK.

How many have been written, so far? I can't keep up.

Thanks! I'm learning a lot reading posts on the forum, here.