Blizzard Warning! *UPDATED ~ MORE IOWA PICS PG 8 from Chickbond007*

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wind here still bad..just lost a piece of coop tin..can't get out to check it..as long as it doen't rain anymore, hopefully everything will be o.k.....lower pasture standing in water..ugh..but no snow!!
 
we are expecting this storm here this evening.... last weekend the city got a sprinkling and I measured 9"... if I can expect the same every time and we are expecting 4"... that would equate to 36" here
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lets hope that formula doesn't replay itself!!
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Thank you ChickBond007 from WI.....

14 inches and counting! I posted pics in the Hey Boyd thread......

Winds are not too bad yet, but supposed to in the afternoon and evening along with bitter cold for the next few days.....

We will be returning the favor to Iowa in the Spring in the form of TORNADOES!
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Yup, SE wisconsin here and we were dumped on. My chicks got soaked in the wet snow before I got home from school to close them in (the wind was coming from the east! Nature always thwarts my plans!) so I stayed up all night worrying about them and checking on them every so often. At about 6:00AM I got ready to shovel all day. By 7:30 I had the chickens dug out, got them a few treats, warm water, etc. I even shoveled the grass a little bit, and let them out of their run. One jumped up onto my shoulder hehe.

Unfortunately, on the way in with the waterer, the girls got pretty excited and the base fell off draining a quart of water on the floor.

Now I need to shovel the driveway so I can go to the store to get fresh bedding before it gets too late and freezes. But now it's getting colder, and the wind is picking up, and it's still snowing. Sigh. The worst part is my driveway is some 700 feet long, down hill, and this snow weighs so darn much!

I came in for a break, and that break turned into a long break, and then I went back out and my shovel disappeared (did someone else take it?) so I came back in and now it's a really long break... and now I am watching Scooby Doo.

Don't get me wrong, though, I love snow. I am just worried about my chickens because it's our first winter
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We have about a foot of snow. Started raining a little while ago, light rain, and sometimes rain AND snow. I changed the blanket on my little mare to her midweight blanket, but my big 4 year old still won't let me touch her much (with some sweetfeed I can touch her back a bit) and I have no blanket for her and her shelter isn't finished... Wasn't expecting the snow like this. My poor mare is freezing her buns off, She has a big round bale and I gave her a good heaping amount of sweetfeed (well, I'm not going to be feeding this stuff anymore because there is a chance it has Rumensin in it since my mill calls it Goat Ration. It's for the goats, it's like a 12% sweetfeed) and I won't be able to get her a blanket or shell until next week or any horse sweetfeed until at least the weekend. We're snowed in until tomorrow.

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Some blizzard pics:

You can see the obvious effects of drifting due to 45 mph wind. Some places no snow, some places 7 ft drifts.


Front of house (no the pickup isn't always parked there, it was white out when he came home)
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Side of house
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View of the coop
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It was sooooo cold that the camera refused to take more... went completely dead. Had to come in and warm up.
 
Chickbond - we got everything shoveled out this morning and my hubby even plowed a path to the coop and a big circle area around it. My 19 year old drives a Scion - she made it home from work last night but got stuck in front of our house. It sits so low to the ground it's like a mini snowplow with no traction. It was our morning entertainment as we watched her try to get it out by herself this morning. Her daddy ended up towing it out of the drift with his truck. She was planning on moving out today
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She rented a house with two friends and not one of them owns a shovel....
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Guess what she is getting for Christmas!
 
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Put a big fat bow and ribbon on the shovel ! LOL! It just goes to prove that you're never too old to need your daddy!
As for right now, I'm happy to be snowed in at the farm. Wind is dying down, and it's starting to look (not feel) pretty out there.
 

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