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[ChickForLife]

Maybe, it depends how much we get, & how cold it stays.

Curse global warming.

Exactly, we are supposed to have snow and 60 weather next week in the same week.

 

[MysteryChicken]

If you do you'll have to post a pic, so I can pretend I'm having one too!!

Okay.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Exactly, we are supposed to have snow and 60 weather next week in the same week.

I'll have to look at our 10 day forecast.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Hiya!

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Hiii!!! Good almost afternoon! I'm just poping in here for a few. Might be getting a Christmas tree today!

Does anyone else have molters who look pitiful still? Joy and the BRs stand around more often than not. As soon as it warms up, I’ll let them all out for a run-around the yard, but I’m worried that their energy still hasn’t picked up, and their molts are taking foreeeeevvvveerrrrrrr! I’ll be feeding scrambled egg this weekend to see what I can do.

Some chickens go through different molts. There's the Hard Molt, and the other Molt that I call the soft Molt, because I don't know what it's really called. The Hard Molt is that molt's real name though. In a Hard Molt, the chicken looses all it's feathers all at once, like all in the same week and everything. The soft molt is a much longer molt. It can take up to six months to complete and occasionally isn't that noticable. There's probably in between molts, but that's the two big ones. If you want the molt to move a little faster, place them in complete darkness for awhile. That'll cause them to stop laying and thus making them grow their feathers back faster.

Hiya!

Hi!!!

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

Exactly, we are supposed to have snow and 60 weather next week in the same week.

It's like that in Kansas. Last year, it was 70 F on Christmas and we planted tulips. Now, the crocuses are coming up. It can also get in the negatives, particularly in January and February.

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

There's also about one tornado per year, in April or May.

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

This morning, the neighbor's dogs came over. A few days ago, they killed two or three ducks. All the chickens were hiding, and the bantams were all in their coop except one rooster out in the pen strutting around and screaming. He may have been their lookout. The dogs didn't get anyone today!

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

I got a ten pound bag of chicken treats for a chicken Christmas present.

 

[CHlCKEN]

There's also about one tornado per year, in April or May.

that must be tough. I know of two specific tornadoes that happend in Tennessee this year. One happened In Nashville two days before I took a weekend trip there to visit my cousins, and THEN, in April there was another Tornado in Chattanooga where a different set of cousins live. I wasn’t there, but they sent me pictures of the damage. Both cases, my family members where safe, but also in both cases, it barley missed them. Apparently Tennessee had over 30 this year! 2020 is not as perfect as we thought it would be!

Stay safe! Tornadoes aren’t fun!