California - Northern

[ronott1]

weird...Hupp Farms is in AZ right and these were shipped as eggs not chicks?? That's a mystery but would a lack of immunity to mold because it wasn't a part of your environment be passed on to a chick? That doesn't seem likely and Woodland is definitely pretty darned arid. Sorry you lost her. Hope everyone else stays healthy.

It very well could be due to a difference in climate. We have lots of clay soil in woodland an definitely different buggies. I have brought in breeds from very different places so I suppose stuff like this is normal.

Did you read about some of the problems some of the Green Fire Farms breeds have had? Sometimes 50% deaths the first year.

I will look at it as a culling effect. No my Blue one better not get this!

 

[ronott1]

I haven't been following this story, but if you want them to go in somewhere for the night you need to keep them in one place for a while.

You pamper your chickens so much.

I still have some cull roosters in that pen made with wire panels. Open on all sides with a roof. They are fine. Not even any frost damage on their combs. I just break the ice in their water pan each morning and add more water from the hose. I'm a big meany. They are hoping to run away and go live with you!

For your dog kennel coop, you can stick a broomstick type dowel or split 2x4 through for a roost. I have a plastic tub with a hole cut in the lid (sitting sideways), zip tied to the side of my little kennel chicken tractor. You can cover it with a tarp.

I have three in my grow out tractor brooder. I put a roof on it but no sides yet. I plan on putting a tarp on the back and it looks like I need to get them a nest box too. The two Pita Pintas and one Basque hen that went to one of my Co Workers each laid an egg this weekend!

Mine should start any day now. Time to set up some conjugal visits with the Cockerel I suppose.....

 

[lawatt]

I haven't been following this story, but if you want them to go in somewhere for the night you need to keep them in one place for a while.

You pamper your chickens so much.

I still have some cull roosters in that pen made with wire panels. Open on all sides with a roof. They are fine. Not even any frost damage on their combs. I just break the ice in their water pan each morning and add more water from the hose. I'm a big meany. They are hoping to run away and go live with you!

For your dog kennel coop, you can stick a broomstick type dowel or split 2x4 through for a roost. I have a plastic tub with a hole cut in the lid (sitting sideways), zip tied to the side of my little kennel chicken tractor. You can cover it with a tarp.

have to agree -- my bunch of 5-week-old chicks have come through this cold spell just fine, sleeping in a warm pile in one of the nestboxes inside their small enclosed henhouse (has 4 solid walls but an always-open pop door & large wire-covered vents at the top) and spending their days out in the run, trying to make the most of the sunshine. they are tough little creatures!

 

[8machines]

My huaband told me to come home Sly Park. I came up Starks Grade instead. Surely it cant be that bad! In a Camero? It Was!! I got stuck and had to have my hubby come turn me around and headed back to Holiday Market. I parked my Camero and we came in his truck up Sly Park theough Sierra Springs. Lesson learned. Listen to your hubby when he has been here since it started snowing!

 

[ronott1]

My huaband told me to come home Sly Park. I came up Starks Grade instead. Surely it cant be that bad! In a Camero? It Was!! I got stuck and had to have my hubby come turn me around and headed back to Holiday Market. I parked my Camero and we came in his truck up Sly Park theough Sierra Springs. Lesson learned. Listen to your hubby when he has been here since it started snowing!

Intellicast says it is 45 in Woodland, but there is still ice in the shade here.

What a crazy time of temps we are having!

 

[tommysgirl]

I haven't been following this story, but if you want them to go in somewhere for the night you need to keep them in one place for a while.

You pamper your chickens so much.

I still have some cull roosters in that pen made with wire panels. Open on all sides with a roof. They are fine. Not even any frost damage on their combs. I just break the ice in their water pan each morning and add more water from the hose. I'm a big meany. They are hoping to run away and go live with you!

For your dog kennel coop, you can stick a broomstick type dowel or split 2x4 through for a roost. I have a plastic tub with a hole cut in the lid (sitting sideways), zip tied to the side of my little kennel chicken tractor. You can cover it with a tarp.

hahaha...I guess you are right about the babying, I do it b/c I want them to like me

Thanks for the advice re the retrofit of the kennel/coop. I can make either of your suggestions work. Just so you know I am not totally silly, I do have the Skipper (hatchery NH) Mary Ann and Ginger,( EEs) in a three sided coop with a western facing exposure over part of which I have secured several thicknesses of cardboard, hill billy style. But he was in my uncle's bachelor pad eating nothing but scratch for 2.5 years before I sprung his buddy and gave them both ladies so the Skipper is super pleased with his life about now and the girls don't seem to mind one bit.

 

[8machines]

The chickens are coming out to eat and drink then back into the coop. We put a 125 wt. Heat lamp in the coop. Its in a safe place but I am still wondering if it is necessary.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm glad the electric tea kettles are working well for so many of you! I like a warm drink on a cold day, so I figured the chickens would too. Plus, it's fast and easy.

I paid the price today for the chickens hiding in the coops to stay out of the snow - not one single egg today.

DH and I finished shoveling the driveway today, so hopefully no ice in the morning.

 

[OR4-hmom]

I'm so tired of this crud!!! Chores in the morning are taking me 1.5 hours, and by the time I get done I'm wet and freezing to everything I touch. Got down to 11 at work and saw 2° on one business sign, roads nothing but thick ice, schools closed for a second day. So far going back to work is costing me money, no way I'm driving 7 miles in this stuff! I broke down and have lights in 3 of the coops and the waterers inside are still frozen solid.

 

[chiqita]

I'm so tired of this crud!!! Chores in the morning are taking me 1.5 hours, and by the time I get done I'm wet and freezing to everything I touch. Got down to 11 at work and saw 2° on one business sign, roads nothing but thick ice, schools closed for a second day. So far going back to work is costing me money, no way I'm driving 7 miles in this stuff! I broke down and have lights in 3 of the coops and the waterers inside are still frozen solid.

OHH I have sympathy for you! warning: I have kitten keybord now so my typing could go insane at any moment. Houdini and t2 are both trying to sit on boobs and fall on the keybord frequently.

I'm glad the electric tea kettles are working well for so many of you! I like a warm drink on a cold day, so I figured the chickens would too. Plus, it's fast and easy.

I paid the price today for the chickens hiding in the coops to stay out of the snow - not one single egg today.

DH and I finished shoveling the driveway today, so hopefully no ice in the morning.

You are a chicken hero! And a duck hero too, we took a bucket of warm water for the duck pond and there was much rejoicing. Im even insoired to make oatmeal for everyone ( including me!) in the morning form your heroicness!