Anyone Nervous About New England Nor'easter?

[peopleRanimals2]

Put a towel in your shirt and let them cuddle with you while you snuggle up to a movie or something

 

[ddelancy]

I was already laughing about getting up every two hours to fill hot water bottles, but I really would be like their Mama Hen cuddling up with them! Good luck up there in RI!

 

[TalkALittle]

I'm not worried at all. My Massachusetts coop and birds made it through 3 blizzards and a record 90 inches of snowfall two years ago.

Extra bedding and a heated dog bowl got us through just fine. We did lose power and I had to bring water out for a few days. I usually fill a couple 5 gallon buckets with water before the storm just in case.

 

[lazy gardener]

Put a towel in your shirt and let them cuddle with you while you snuggle up to a movie or something

Um... if the power goes out, there will be no movies!

 

[song of joy]

I'm here at the Jersey shore and we're expecting 60 mph winds and a foot of snow. I have two-week old chicks in a brooder in the basement, with a heat lamp on them. I am worried about the power too. I am planning to use big Mason jars filled with hot water if the power goes out. Anyone have any other ideas?

I've heard of people putting rice in a sock and heating it up in the microwave oven as a heating pad for neck pain. It may be worth trying and keeping the hot rice-socks in an insulated cooler just in case you need them.

 

[TalkALittle]

I have eggs in the incubator....hopefully we can keep power. 

If you have a smaller incubator, set the whole incubator in a cooler and toss in a good supply of HotHands hand warmers.

 

[ddelancy]

Thanks song of joy! I might give the rice sock idea a try. Sounds like it might work!

 

[waddles99]

If you have a smaller incubator, set the whole incubator in a cooler and toss in a good supply of HotHands hand warmers.

Thats a good idea

 

[song of joy]

Thanks song of joy! I might give the rice sock idea a try. Sounds like it might work!

Also - look up huddle box. They're easy to make out of a cardboard box. The chicks use their shared body heat to stay warm, but hand warmers and/or rice socks would help inside the huddle box as well, provided they are not too hot.

 

[Mrs. K]

see pictures of my wooly hen, I have chicks less that a week old, huddled under it at night in the garage, no other heat and they are thriving.

Mrs K