Coffee's ready...

[Tonopah Pati]

Good Morning, from WET Arizona.......My pens are really saturated. it has gotten cold, feels even colder with that darn wind blowing. BURR! What? a Wuss! I dug out a sweater the other day. The last time i wore it, i lived at the 8500-9000 foot level elevation. I was glad i kept it. Feb. in the desert is crazy. I can drop temp. 19 degrees is the coldest, that i have had, and 122 degrees, in the shade, my hottest so far. I have been tracking the temp. 7 years, at my house.

Karl, I know how that ground gets.

I lived in MI, right on the edge of Lake Michigan. Whew Doggies! some weather. I was directly across the Lake from Chicago. Wet snow, and Ice storms. But, one of our Country's Beautiful States. I do love my home state.

I have to get myself another cup of coffee.

OMG! the sun is out right now, and looks clear.

I had started tearing the big pen down. The shade cloth that i took down around the bottom of the pen, acted as a wind break. I really did not know how much of a break it was, until now, with this wind coming through the pen, and into the corner, where the big chickens roost, under a tarp. The tarp was flapping up and down. The hutch that the girls were laying their eggs in was getting a direct hit. The loft dog house had 4 nest in it. I found 2 eggs there, and 2 eggs in the wind brown hutch.
Some of the girls roost on the rubber mat that is under the dog house, and is the roof material that i have on top of the roof, of the cage below it. The tarp over the dog house was flapping, the wind was blowing so hard, the chickens were having a hard time walking in it. let alone get on the roost.
They spent most of the day on the patio under the furniture or behind Louie's cage. I had to keep the sides of the cage covered, and turned out of the wind. The chickens all huddled there out of the wind. With Louie.
The Little kids all huddled up in their play house coop. I did close the bottom door a little more, so that they could just fit through the opening. That stopped a draft that they were getting.
Bantam Frizzles have to be one of the cutest birds to watch.

I really get lots of laughs watching them Chicken Comedy TV. the inter action they have with the cat and dogs. the only picked on critter is Louie. Both flocks hate him. But they hang around his pen every day they are out.

Have a great day friends! Go with God.

Until we meet a the coffee klatch tomorrow.

 

[ChickBond 007]

 

[Sissy]

Good morning all you flock tenders.
Kismet congrats on you blu egg,
Iam hoping I get my
first one soon. Never had ameraucanas before.
tono-- sorry about all the wind and rain..
it sure does make extra work. thats our kind of weather
the last few months we have had here.
But Feel better.....
the next 2 days we are expecting Snow

I am on my 3 rd. cup of good ol DD coffee
its that kind of morning chilly and cloudy.
you al' do what has to be done and enjoy ur coffee
and a Great good morning to
all of you

And dont forget the Coffee Bar is open 24/7
so enjoy...

 

[Kismet]

I just came in from shoveling away a foot of snow for a path out to the two hen houses. It is wet and heavy and supposed to turn to rain later. I thought I should get it out of the way before it became a mass of ice.

So entering the house again, the rich smell of freshly brewed coffee tingled my taste buds. What's more satisfying after all that exercise than BYC and that first cup of coffee?

 

[Sissy]

Kismet you got that right .
nothing like the aroma of fresh brew filling the air.
especially when the chores are done.

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers
IKismet ,Sissy you 2 are right coffee brewing and the smell of frying pork are a real morning brightener.11 degrees here this morning and I'll be dawgoned if the trees aren't budding up anyway. I guess the rest of the natural world is as tired of this as we are. Ya'll have a great day.

 

[Scoop]

Hi guys. We're getting clobbered again with more snow.

I'll be in and out all day today shoveling and trying to prepare for baby chicks hatching in the coop. (I know, as if I have to DO anything!

) We are seperating out the other hens from Jenny and Bluebell. We just don't quite trust them all with the chickies. We'll throw 3 of them in with the rooster and the other 7 in the small coop. Hopefully, we won't have to keep them seperated too long. We have a double tub in the basement ready to go if we need it. Well, enjoy the coffee everyone.

 

[Kismet]

Good morning! Well, last night my DS brought over 12 new chickens since my new coop is ready. We mixed them in with the 6 old ones that I moved from the old coop, leaving all the cocks in bachelor quarters (too many - some are going to freezer camp soon). it was dark when we put everyone together. This morning I took my first cup of coffee out to the coop and sat and watched everyone for a long while. There was a lot of squawking and carrying on - checking out the roosts and nesting boxes. Every time birds would fly up or down the new shavings would fly along with them. There were no big fights, but since even the old birds are in a new place, I think it equalized it a bit.

It's raining here! I spent a while with the hoe making little ditches in the ice so the rain and melting snow gushed down into the drain and not into a slippery puddle in front of the house. I love playing in puddles!

I love having a winter break from school, too, to just putter around and breathe deeply, enjoying the little pleasures.

 

[karl E lutz]

good morning chicken wranglers
Kismet lifes little pleasires are the ones we seem all too often to take for granted.My wife and I are getting a big charge out of everything our 4 year old does.We know the others did the same things but this is our last little one except for grand kids. So my little pleasures are always wrapped up at home.Coffee is so good in the morning it is almost a necessity not a little pleasure.god bless have a good weekend!

 

[Tonopah Pati]

Good morning from Arizona

got some sunshine off and on. the rain has stopped for a couple of days and i did make some headway on tearing apart the old pen area. Yea!

I am having good results with the the older flock merging with the younger flock. I think the have the pecking order settled for now. I took out the gate that the big kids have always used. Now they have to come and go out the Aviary gate. They still look for the old gate. Some times i have to call them, so that they can get going in the right direction.

Sorry about more snow, Scoop. Bummer!

Having the last cup of coffee. Got to get busy! Chores are screaming my name.