Connecticut!

[new chick 203]

I'm off to dig my tunnel to my girls too. Funny, when I came up with this whole chicken keeping idea I didn't picture it as so much snow shoveling.

At least it's not as windy as they said it would be.

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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Us too. A few years ago if you had suggested that one day I would be shoveling out a path in my backyard to get to my chicken coop, I never would have believed you!
The hens would not come out of the coop until I removed the snow and mixed the residual "white evil" in with the sand. Fussy!

Round 2 of shoveling. The poor snowman is disappearing!

 

[new chick 203]

We dug them out, but they don't dig it.

 

[Flashy2003]

Does anyone have a 1/2 dozen or so Silkie, bantam polish , bantam Japanese or hamburgs eggs they want to sell at the North eastern show this weekend?

 

[KimberlyJ]

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Thanks, he's really quite a nice bird too.
I was reading about your snow and mud troubles in your run. My run is covered on three sides but with that last wind/snow storm our run got snowed into too! I actually had to shovel out the run and then mix up what was left of it with the sand in the run so the chickens would come out of the coop! Princesses!
I use sand in my run and it's in a very muddy area of our yard but it keeps the run nice and DRY. Think about it, it's great in terms of sanitation too.

Part of the problem is it's brand new. We just finished it in September. We had to bring in a Backhoe to level the ground were the shed and run are, so it's all freshly dug up dirt. We did plant grass seed around the outside of the run and we put 6 bags of sand in the run. But we still had more mud than I would like'''but now it's more snow!!!! I had a bale of straw that I spread around and that helped. But now if I shovel the snow out....all the straw comes out too

I just didn't think that it would snow into a covered run so much! I don't want to put tarps around it and make it too noticable to the neighbors. I'm within ordinances, but I'd still like to be under the radar if possible. The neightbors across the street own a landscape company and he said he'll get me a load of sand in the spring. But today spring seems kinda far off

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[chicken boy sam]

We just check on them throughout the day and trudge through the snow..... and it's all the way in the woods!!!!!!!! We don't dig them out because they still won't come out.

 

[The Tinman]

I had one of my girls hatched an egg today and they killed it. I found it in the corner of the nest box all chewed up.

 

[KimberlyJ]

Oh Tinman I'm so sorry. What were those silly chickens thinking??

 

[Henrietta23]

Had to dig out here too, not so much that the chickens and ducks were going to come, but so that we could get water to all the animals and hay to the goats. DH used the snow blower.

 

[chickaddict]

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That is so sad, I wonder why they would do that?????

Have they ever hatched before? Maybe they didn't know what it was.