Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[GregnLety]

Not a bad view when the weather isn't crappy.

 

[GregnLety]

I talked to Lety earlier, the chooks, pups and water made it through the cold blast with no issues. Pups got chicken and rice for a evening treat and the chooks got softened puppy chow for a protein boost just before roosting time today.

 

[RoyalChick]

I have been looking to see if you made out ok with Bernie bringing her inside. Did I miss an update?

Awww - thanks for your concern - you are a better chicken mom to Bernie than I am!
This storm is terrifying - I was out trying to make sure there weren't too many projectile hazards and it was truly scary - the wind sounded like a freight train was hurtling right towards me!
The Princesses roosted right close to the flat panel and I wasn't sure whether to bring them in or not. It wasn't yet fully dark and they were not settled.
Honestly I was afraid of the Bernie issue and that they would be as terrified as me out in the wind.
So I decided to wait until a bit later and go back out and check on them. Of course I sat on the sofa and immediately fell asleep! I woke up about 11:30pm in a panic - my chickens have frozen and my pipes have burst (I hadn't yet turned on the little heater).
So I rushed out.
All is good. Bernie stood back on my arm like a good girl and I stuffed her under my jacket to walk her back to the garage so she could avoid the worst of the freight train.
Diana complained more than Bernie but she is a friend so she snuggled under my jacket. Both are now in the garage in the big dog crate on a perch and asleep. The pipes are not burst.
Phew!

 

[ManueB]

Awww - thanks for your concern - you are a better chicken mom to Bernie than I am!
This storm is terrifying - I was out trying to make sure there weren't too many projectile hazards and it was truly scary - the wind sounded like a freight train was hurtling right towards me!
The Princesses roosted right close to the flat panel and I wasn't sure whether to bring them in or not. It wasn't yet fully dark and they were not settled.
Honestly I was afraid of the Bernie issue and that they would be as terrified as me out in the wind.
So I decided to wait until a bit later and go back out and check on them. Of course I sat on the sofa and immediately fell asleep! I woke up about 11:30pm in a panic - my chickens have frozen and my pipes have burst (I hadn't yet turned on the little heater).
So I rushed out.
All is good. Bernie stood back on my arm like a good girl and I stuffed her under my jacket to walk her back to the garage so she could avoid the worst of the freight train.
Diana complained more than Bernie but she is a friend so she snuggled under my jacket. Both are now in the garage in the big dog crate on a perch and asleep. The pipes are not burst.
Phew!

Indeed, phew!
Hope everyone make it safe and your chickens too. Good luck to all of you.

 

[RoyalChick]

The weather people have added a frostbite advisory into the storm warning. Apparently at whatever windchill we are at, exposed skin gets frostbitten in 30 mins.
Brrrr.
I am going to bed until it is over!

 

[RoyalChick]

Garage chickens

 

[ValarieF]

Its 6 degrees out. The chooks are good and Hades is crowing.

 

[rural mouse]

29F before dawn this morning. 48 hours ago it was almost 70 degrees COLDER. The coop is getting opened today!!!


And the fire can die so the ashes can get cleaned out.

Not sure if the hens or the roos will be happier about freedom.

 

[TX Chick Noob]

15F here with windchill of 6F. Will finally get above freezing for 3-4 hours this afternoon then fall back into the 20s. Going to feel like a heatwave.

Chooks have all seemed fine so far. Not even fluffed up much.

 

[Ponypoor]

Awww - thanks for your concern - you are a better chicken mom to Bernie than I am!
This storm is terrifying - I was out trying to make sure there weren't too many projectile hazards and it was truly scary - the wind sounded like a freight train was hurtling right towards me!
The Princesses roosted right close to the flat panel and I wasn't sure whether to bring them in or not. It wasn't yet fully dark and they were not settled.
Honestly I was afraid of the Bernie issue and that they would be as terrified as me out in the wind.
So I decided to wait until a bit later and go back out and check on them. Of course I sat on the sofa and immediately fell asleep! I woke up about 11:30pm in a panic - my chickens have frozen and my pipes have burst (I hadn't yet turned on the little heater).
So I rushed out.
All is good. Bernie stood back on my arm like a good girl and I stuffed her under my jacket to walk her back to the garage so she could avoid the worst of the freight train.
Diana complained more than Bernie but she is a friend so she snuggled under my jacket. Both are now in the garage in the big dog crate on a perch and asleep. The pipes are not burst.
Phew!

Wow ! Soooooo glad it all went well! And glad your pipes didn’t rupture, nothing worse that water issues in the freezing cold!

The wind is ferocious here also, and that old Poplar tree was throwing off dead branches onto the path to the barn, I am going the rope off the path under it, so no one gets clobbered.

I feel asleep watching TV also, and at around 11pm just figured it was too much effort to move and ‘get ready for bed’. So just stayed were I was. All night the 65’ tower attached to the house kept banging and clanging. A restless night….

What’s the temps there? Hopefully not too much snow!