Flock/Life Journey's 2019

[shelbyw]

Snow is beautiful when it first lays (if it lays) but when it turns into slush or ice, its awful imo. The type of snow we had yesterday is the really fine snow which doesn't lay but makes everything cold and damp. The hail stones weren't as big as they can be over here but they were enough that they stung when they hit me. My ducks weren't at all bothered by the hail stones but my chickens freaked, and hid until they stopped.

Ditto Snow can be great at first but it’s the following days leading up to when it is melting and when it ices overnight. I do have really pretty pictures of it on the first fall. We got 20 (0.508 meters) inches in our front pasture and 23 inches(0.5842 meters) in the back pasture. A few days after it snowed, we started getting rain and that caused the snow to harden and it was super hard to walk in and I could not move my car for 2 weeks.

 

[shelbyw]

Ive just seen movies where it looks nice like a cloud lol.
Ohhh poor chickens. Thats good that the ducks were happy but.

The snow looks like that on the first day from my experience

 

[Anna Ranieri]

Ive just seen movies where it looks nice like a cloud lol.
Ohhh poor chickens. Thats good that the ducks were happy but.

Forgive my ignorance but do you never get snow?

 

[shelbyw]

Forgive my ignorance but do you never get snow?

I don’t think Australia gets snow because they are right near the equator if I’m not mistaken. Almost like Florida in the United States. I’m pretty sure

 

[KLIL]

Never had snow here. Its too hot I think. Its never been that cold. We get to about 1 or 2 degrees but never seen minus.

Im going shopping now. Ill be back on after xoxo

 

[shelbyw]

Never had snow here. Its too hot I think. Its never been that cold. We get to about 1 or 2 degrees but never seen minus.

Im going shopping now. Ill be back on after xoxo

Alright

 

[Anna Ranieri]

Ditto Snow can be great at first but it’s the following days leading up to when it is melting and when it ices overnight. I do have really pretty pictures of it on the first fall. We got 20 (0.508 meters) inches in our front pasture and 23 inches(0.5842 meters) in the back pasture. A few days after it snowed, we started getting rain and that caused the snow to harden and it was super hard to walk in and I could not move my car for 2 weeks.

Damn, that's harsh! Where I am in the UK we really don't get very much, most of the bad weather is up north. Trouble is we are so used to mild winters that when we get a bad winter which isnt very often at all, we panic and everything comes to a standstill. When I read about people such as yourself who get hardcore snow and extreme weather I realise how fortunate we are but when I'm out here freezing my butt off I find it hard to remember that. People up north often think of us as real softies and laugh at us because a bad snow day for us is like a walk in the park for them who get the really bad weather and extreme weather but in our defence, it's always harder for those who are not accustomed something which to others is the norm for them. Where I am we tend to have more rain and high winds than anything else and is easier to handle because we are used to it.

 

[WhoDatChick]

View attachment 1645264 View attachment 1645265 View attachment 1645266 View attachment 1645267 Update from me! Transferred 8 chicks to brooder, And have 2 still in incubator, one hatched one resting with just its wing out, I’ll probably end up helping it out because I’m a sucker lol.

My kids won’t leave the poor things alone, they’ve already been for drives in toy cars and put in teacups for a tea party lol.
It’s going to another hot one here currently 32 celcius predicted 36, hate the heat

Aaaawwww, SO cute!!! Congratulations on your cute little biddies
I can’t wait till I get my new ones this Spring!

 

[shelbyw]

Damn, that's harsh! Where I am in the UK we really don't get very much, most of the bad weather is up north. Trouble is we are so used to mild winters that when we get a bad winter which isnt very often at all, we panic and everything comes to a standstill. When I read about people such as yourself who get hardcore snow and extreme weather I realise how fortunate we are but when I'm out here freezing my butt off I find it hard to remember that. People up north often think of us as real softies and laugh at us because a bad snow day for us is like a walk in the park for them who get the really bad weather and extreme weather but in our defence, it's always harder for those who are not accustomed something which to others is the norm for them. Where I am we tend to have more rain and high winds than anything else and is easier to handle because we are used to it.

Sounds like a delight where you are! Lol That was a snowstorm we got and it was the first time I have ever seen so much. I am used to a dusting or an ice storm but I did recently move north of where I was originally. Where are you located?

 

[ChristieB]

More southern states do get snow here but not Queensland, not even tops of mountains, it’s to tropical on the coast and to dry out west. I’m in SE qld and we can get below 0, -5 at most, ice on the windscreen and frost on the grass but not even close to snow,