calling any one from missouri

[chiknGeek]

-14 this morning. The high is supposed to be-1. I have closed my banties into their coop, but the big girls seem happy enough to go out into their covered run.

 

[Adorae]

-8 here, feels like -27 with the wind. Waiting for my mom to come visit so I can take water out to the chickens since it’s gotten so cold, the warmer pads I have for the water tanks can’t keep the water from freezing. It’s a good thing I have Monday off. I think I’ll move the water into the coops for the rest of the winter so the poor birds don’t have to go outside. I may just lock them up anyways cuz I keep losing birds and I need some when I go to collect eggs for hatching in a couple weeks.

 

[SueT]

I have heated waterers that have done fine in below zero temps

 

[chiknGeek]

@Adorae if you can block wind from blowing on the waterers it helps a lot.

 

[jthornton]

I use a heated dog water bowl and block the wind from getting in the run.

And surprise surprise my hens laid two eggs today! One 61 grams and one 71 grams.

JT

 

[Adorae]

I managed to move 1 inside the coop, hopefully it starts to thaw and the other I moved towards the coop, but I couldn’t get it inside cuz the cord was covered in a sheet of ice. I’ll try to mess with it more tomorrow since I have the day off and daycare is opened.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Had to go cut a frozen poop ball off my drakes bum. Poor fella.
Other than that the birds are surving.
Burned through 2 propane tanks keeping it livable for us and the dogs inside.

This is ridiculous.

 

[jthornton]

We got some snow yesterday and possibly last night. Burned a lot of wood yesterday keeping the shops and garage warm. I have and oil filled heater under the table right in front of me down in the beer cave where I work on my computer and it's on high! Even with central air the basement is always pretty cool.

It's 4°F outside ATM.

I started cleaning out Coop Deux yesterday...

JT

 

[SueT]

-2 here. There was less than 1” powdery snow yesterday. The older flock will not come out if there’s any snow. The 4 bantam EEs don’t seem to mind it and walked all around in it. But I swept the runs a bit with a push broom so there was bare dirt, then brought in wood shavings and spread that around….because the snow isn’t going to melt today. Or tomorrow.

 

[jthornton]

We got about 3" of power snow and the only one that would even come out of the coop was Blondie... well until I put some food in the dog bowls then the old gals came flying out of the coop. I'm just keeping the door to the run closed as I know no one will come out until they get used to the sight of snow... and it ain't going to melt away for a while.

It's 5°F here and they are calling for more snow... and I didn't fully close the door to the garage and it was 34°F in there this morning!

JT