2018 Newbie Chat!

[llombardo]

How are you going to cope with no water for the ducks?

I put a bowl of snow in there. Ricky ate some and Reba and dolly are choosing to stand in it

I even got 2 eggs today--lucy(duck) and rose(EE)

I'm sitting in my car right now getting warm. The house is holding at 59 degrees but there is no estimated time on power. They say 163,000 are without.

 

[Anna Ranieri]

@ChooksNQuilts I've decided to post several pics for you to have a look at several different angles, the egg colours are showing up a bit lighter on the photos than they really are but I think you'll get the idea, I've put a couple of pics of them with Pedro's eggs for you to see there is a difference. If you can see well enough on the pics to see there is a kind of white coating on one of Jellybean's eggs and the one she laid today has a bit of that on too but not so much, I haven't included today's lay as these pics had already been taken before they laid today. Are you able to tell me what the white coating is, why it is on there and if there is cause for concern?
Jellybean's eggs

Jellybean's eggs along with Pedro's - I don't know why but for some reason her eggs look the same size as Pedro's on these pics but in reality they are not, they are significantly smaller than Pedro's

The next lot of photos are of Jellybean and Pedro, maybe you could give me an idea of what breed or mix of breeds they might be?

Jellybean

Pedro

Meant to say, had to clip Pedro's wings but her flight feathers are black - same colour as her tail feathers.
Jellybean hasn't had her wings clipped but her flight feathers don't grow properly and the few she has on these pics is the most she gets, they are also blackish same colour as her tail feathers

 

[Anna Ranieri]

I put a bowl of snow in there. Ricky ate some and Reba and dolly are choosing to stand in it

I even got 2 eggs today--lucy(duck) and rose(EE)

I'm sitting in my car right now getting warm. The house is holding at 59 degrees but there is no estimated time on power. They say 163,000 are without.

Ohh my, hun, I hope help gets to you fast!
Good thinking with using the snow for the ducks, I just hope and pray you and all your animals will be safe and hope with all my heart that help gets to you quick.

 

[llombardo]

Ohh my, hun, I hope help gets to you fast!
Good thinking with using the snow for the ducks, I just hope and pray you and all your animals will be safe and hope with all my heart that help gets to you quick.

I'm worried about my fish. The cats are huddled together. Chickens are making a mess and laying eggs like nothing.

 

[Anna Ranieri]

I'm worried about my fish. The cats are huddled together. Chickens are making a mess and laying eggs like nothing.

Are there any animal welfare organisations or shelters you could contact for help? We have some over here who go out to help animals etc during floods, disasters etc - just thinking it might be worth you trying them if there are any.

 

[llombardo]

Still no power. We are at 15 hours.The house is holding at 57 degrees now. I'm in the car getting warm and charging the phone. The dogs are doing a fine job of keeping me warm. I don't wish this on anyone.

I can't feed the dogs, because they drink along of water with the food. We don't have any water aside from what they have right now. Letting them out to eat snow is an option, but I'm trying to conserve whatever heat I have left in the house.

 

[No More Empty Nest]

Still no power. We are at 15 hours.The house is holding at 57 degrees now. I'm in the car getting warm and charging the phone. The dogs are doing a fine job of keeping me warm. I don't wish this on anyone.

I can't feed the dogs, because they drink along of water with the food. We don't have any water aside from what they have right now. Letting them out to eat snow is an option, but I'm trying to conserve whatever heat I have left in the house.

Would you be able to build a small campfire outside if the power is not on tomorrow? You could melt snow for the dogs and warm up a bit. Just a thought, I don't know how feasible it is for you. Would need some dryish wood tho. Or start an outside grill to melt snow?

 

[Anna Ranieri]

Still no power. We are at 15 hours.The house is holding at 57 degrees now. I'm in the car getting warm and charging the phone. The dogs are doing a fine job of keeping me warm. I don't wish this on anyone.

I can't feed the dogs, because they drink along of water with the food. We don't have any water aside from what they have right now. Letting them out to eat snow is an option, but I'm trying to conserve whatever heat I have left in the house.

Hun, do you have pots, pans or bowls you can take into the car with you while you have the heater on? If so fill them with snow and it will melt from the heat in your car, you could even put metal pans/bowls full of snow on the bonnet of your car while the engine is running it should also melt the snow (even better if you can use pans with lids on) giving you water for the dogs to have with their food and you could do enough to give to your ducks also.

 

[No More Empty Nest]

Hun, do you have pots, pans or bowls you can take into the car with you while you have the heater on? If so fill them with snow and it will melt from the heat in your car, you could even put metal pans/bowls full of snow on the bonnet of your car while the engine is running it should also melt the snow (even better if you can use pans with lids on) giving you water for the dogs to have with their food and you could do enough to give to your ducks also.

Much better idea!

 

[llombardo]

This morning my guys at work brought me a generator and extension cords. I got the fish hooked up first, then the electic fireplace and one heater I had. I also connected the outside waterers for the rabbits. I threw hey and pellers out for the wild ones--they are using the duck pool with straw for shelter. My own personal rabbits are fine--filled up their food and water thawed. . I brought the cats downstairs to get warm--one was sneezing. My boss and good friend that is s co-worker had lunch delivered to me and my son brought gallons of water.

The electric finally went back on at about 3pm. We still have a wire wrapped around another wite that could be a potential problem. The first thing I did when the power went back on was turn that furnace on. Then I went and filled the tub up for the ducks to swim, then I moved Prince in with the girls--first I put cardboard over the plastic because that wasn't cutting it, then I had chickens escape--they all went by Prince.

All of these animals were such troopers. Completely trusted everything I have done. Brought the cats back upstairs once the room was warm, made sure the toads were warm, the fish tanks are still not heated completely up--they were down to 50 degrees--not sure how the fish survived but God willing they did. I just got everything back to normal.

Everyone of them laid an egg today too. I got animals everywhere. I got one room empty right now..lol


Ducks

Escape Chickens

Prince with the girls

The two girls fighting over a corner to lay an egg--they flipped my idea of nest boxes

3 of the 4 cats

And the toads