Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

it's my american brain lol that can be a bit chilly for me at times.. like if I am cold and needing to warm up thats cold for me, or when I am hurting to much I get seriously cold sensitive.I just dont seem to have any resources to warm up and my tolerance is like zero, I like visiting snow just not living in it lol.. so do you like to ski @vehve ?

 

[vehve]

Jem, I do. Slalom and snowboarding mostly, but I've started liking cross country skiing too, even got my very first own pair of cross country skis as a adult last year. Too bad we didn't have any snow down south, only got to try them once, maybe we'll get some snow soon and I can go skiing here too. We're going to Lapland in the spring for a week, at least I'll get to do some proper skiing there. Slalom or snowboarding I like to do calmly, off piste being my favorite kind of riding, but on cross country skis I like to go like a crazy person. I have absolutely no technique what so ever, so I compensate with going really fast. Two years ago I went out in -25C (-13F), I only wore long johns and running tights on my legs, and a long sleeved undershirt, thin fleece and a shell coat on my upper body, but I was pushing on like a crazy person and I didn't feel cold at all.

 

[Amberjem]

see now I always "got" cross country ski activities, but the put two sticks on your feet and hurtle yourself down a mountain..................somehow that just never computed as a healthy type of activity for me personally lol.. gravity and I just have to intimate of a relationship for me to be contemplating that sort of hobby lol. I love sledding though..


lol see that kind of cold I'd be feeling it soon as I turned the handle on the door to go out lol it took me two years just to turn my heater off in the summer here ! lol and we're not that overly cold cold ..I had to ajust to the cooler weather when I moved from texas to california.. I would have had hypothermia if I hadnt least stopped in cali before moved from there

 

[vehve]

Jem, it's not that bad really. If you fall, you usually fall on something soft, or then you fall in a slope and you just slow down slowly. The worst I've ever gotten hurt was when I broke my wrist trying to jump a gap on my board (jumping really isn't my thing), and then another time when I was going down a 60deg gradient on skis and I lost control, hit my face a bit...

 

[Amberjem]

ouch, well it's good it wasnt so bad for you

 

[Amberjem]

 

[Beer can]

Morning everyone. I was checking out my neighbors weather website 'east masonville.com' reading their today in history, and it was about chickens! Then I saw the low for Wednesday -12F or -24.4C for vehve.

 

[vehve]

Beer, yeah, that can be pretty cold for un-acclimatized chickens. We had -18C (0F) last night, the bigger birds would have been fine outside, but I locked them in the coop to provide extra heat for the chicks. I would need to find a more powerful heater cable for the outside waterer, the 20W one I've got in there isn't doing anything. I found one that's 120W online that would probably work for me, but 70 euros seems a bit much. Since I'm going to have to provide some added heat for the chicks most of the winter anyway, I think I'll just keep their water inside the coop where it's above freezing at the moment. I'm not happy with how I've arranged the heating at the moment, but it will have to do.

 

[Beer can]

I have a big enough coop so I keep the water in it, still freezes though. It's 8'x16' and I think about 9' to the peak. Not very warm but no drafts and well vented. I wish my leghorns were rose comb, and the kids made me keep a polish pullet, hear they don't do cold well. All nine of them snuggle up in a row together at night though.

 

[vehve]

That's a nice sized coop, Beer. Mine's a lot smaller, but luckily it makes it cheaper to heat. Next year I don't think I want chicks in the winter though, and I'm not going to heat the coop, at least not as much. I think optimal would be getting a proper heater cable for the outside waterer, and then heating the coop a bit when it gets below -10C or -15C, to take the edge off. But I just don't have the heart to keep the chicks in that kind of temps.