I know right. They are funny. Give them 10 nesting boxes and they want 1. It also took me a few days to get them back into the swing of things when we left the cabin.
You are spot on. This year in South Carolina, I feel as if I am constantly in weather crisis mode with respect to chicken care. Record rains, record winds, and now record low temperatures and windchills. Thank God, I am able to work at home, or I don’t know how I could do it.
We spent days putting plastic around the runs (no worries, we left plenty of ventilation), and other things getting the chickens ready for the plummeting temperatures and brutal winds. Last night, we changed our minds. We live on 6-acres and have a cabin that is mostly finished (does have heat)...
I am in the same boat with those living in the south. Our chickens are not used to the temps we will have on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and you are right…the days leading up to it have a lot of rain. I have lost sleep over this one.
Here is what I am doing…in the two coops at night I am...