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I took some aspirin and checked on the chicks. I feel better now haha.

I need to walk away from this....it's giving me a headache.

It's sad, but it's far better to die fast at the hands of someone who cares than to die from exposure, predation, dehydration, or starvation.

Only to an extent can a domesticated animal survive without human intervention. The very qualities we love in them are the ones that make thriving in the wild next to impossible. They may survive for a while, but they'll struggle and be terrified for however short their remaining time would...

After all, our domesticated animals are dependent on us. So if we are suddenly taken out of the picture, the individual animals we have wouldn't survive....or at least wouldn't survive long.

And if you and your family starved to death, your animals would then eat your body/bodies (if they could reach them), then eventually die of dehydration or starvation. Sounds quite a bit crueler than a quick death to feed you and yours.

For sure. Heat would probably be less of an issue if the fiance and I hadn't both had heatstroke at one point or another. So, both of us are more susceptible to getting it again....and it's really not fun XD

I would certainly rather deal with extreme cold over extreme heat any day. I hate when it's hot out.....a lot.

Granted, the winters are going to be horrbly cold, but after growing up in the Northeast at least I know what we're getting into lol.

I've been keeping an eye on the temps up where we're moving, and 90° seems to be a heat wave there lol. It'll be a welcomed change from this southwest Kansas weather :)

But, then again, if a zoo can keep penguins alive in hot climates, I don't see why we couldn't do it for cold-hardy chickens XD

And I assume the comb works much like ears in rabbits. Huge ears dissipate a lot of heat, so in hot climates, you see jack rabbits (with ridiculously large ears), then in the cold you see ones like snowshoe hares, which have teeny ears by comparison. That is, figuring combs have a large number...

Just figured I'd throw this out there..... panting is cooling by evaporation, like sweating is. With them, they force air quickly over the moist inside of their mouth, it evaporates, pulling heat from the body to do so (the same reason you feel cool if you're wet in a breeze). The higher the...

Here too. Fortunately, we're moving in september lol. The post office here is miserable. They only actually deliver mail about 50% of the time. The rest of it they say they were unable to deliver....to my empty mailbox :rolleyes:

Nah, those are fine, because they aren't really spiders XD

The lack of faith in the grid is a big part of why I've been looking at caponizing cockerels.....so we can just process a bird when we need it....rather than having a bunch of birds in the freezer. Especially since we're going to New England. I remember the power outages everytime there was a...

Lovely. But, I guess that's business. Maximize profit while minimizing cost.

The fiance and I both work on wind turbines. I've seen how often things catch fire in substations. I don't have much faith in the grid.