Open Contest Chilly Coop Contest!

[Ponypoor]

My wimps

 

[mrskenmore]

Entry 2/4 The girls pondering going out in the snow

 

[StarOnFire59]

My wimps

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Mine won't even step outside until it gets to 50 °.

 

[Ponypoor]

Mine won't even step outside until it gets to 50 °.

That’s me too

If it wasn’t for me having to feed horses and clean stalls, and feed the chooks I would not go outside at all!

 

[StarOnFire59]

That’s me too

If it wasn’t for me having to feed horses and clean stalls, and feed the chooks I would not go outside at all!

Well, it looks like we're hitting our cold spell. Which means I won't be opening their door at all. And I'll be out their picking in their coop. I usually go in once a week to do picking. I use a grabber & half gallon bucket. I have severe arthritis in my back, neck, hips & knees, so I have learned tricks to compensate. I also have holes in one ankle. I have to keep moving for 2 reasons: if I sit too much I eat too much & I have adult ADHD.
When the bucket is full I toss it in one of my raised garden beds to sit with the compost. After the next precipitation I will take it all under & start over. I keep doing this until 1st of March, then the beds sit until May planting. Seems to work for fertilized soil w/o too much effort.
Sorry I talked too much.

 

[Debbie292d]

Well, it looks like we're hitting our cold spell. Which means I won't be opening their door at all. And I'll be out their picking in their coop. I usually go in once a week to do picking. I use a grabber & half gallon bucket. I have severe arthritis in my back, neck, hips & knees, so I have learned tricks to compensate. I also have holes in one ankle. I have to keep moving for 2 reasons: if I sit too much I eat too much & I have adult ADHD.
When the bucket is full I toss it in one of my raised garden beds to sit with the compost. After the next precipitation I will take it all under & start over. I keep doing this until 1st of March, then the beds sit until May planting. Seems to work for fertilized soil w/o too much effort.
Sorry I talked too much.

So sorry this sounds rough for you to take care of your chickens yet you do it. Have you ever thought of using horse bedding pellets for bedding? You wouldn't have to pick poop ever. Their poop dries out and breaks down and the chickens keep them mixed up. We just change those out once a year and put the dried-up poop/sawdust mixture around trees, some in the garden, and some in the compost bins. That would eliminate that weekly chore for you.

 

[CCsGarden]

I've put in a suggestion to see if there's any interest in BYC postcards or Christmas cards. I used this thread as an example because these, plus those above would all be beautiful in a box of Christmas cards.

Good Idea!!