Sounds like a great meal. Sub any kind of meat, mod the herbs accordingly.I used to make a type of hot pot. Rabbit bits in a very thick gravy, onions, garlic and herbs with a sliced leek with a puff pastry top.
The thick gravy is what fixes it.
My hen Arizona jumps up on my shoulder, but I’m sure that my experience is more painful than your soft kittyFur like silk. It is amazing when she cuddles your neck.
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What breed is Ivy? Her coloring is fantastic !
She knows how much I love my chickens.
Oh, yes, I know. Maybe we can plan an import together!You will of course note that despite my love of them, I have no leghorns in my tribe. I need to find a way to import some non-production leghorns from Italy.
Push comes to shove, buy live crickets (or fishing worms), mix them into the leaf pile and let the royal ladies at them.I told the Princesses that I dropped their jewels inside the new leaf pile. As you can see they searched for them diligently .. .. .. for many hours!
You may also be able to see that Maggie is not looking her best. Her molt is quite severe and her comb is not its normal brilliant red. It isn't pale exactly but looks a bit withered. I do hope she feels OK. I am doing everything I can for her in terms of extra protein, but I notice she isn't as interested in either the commercial feed or my treats.
She is however very interested in worms and bugs (you can see she is quite energetic in the leaf pile) so now I am resorting to digging holes in the garden to find delicacies for her.
I keep reminding myself that it is over a month since the vet suggested euthanasia and it has been a good month for her with lots of interesting chicken-ey things to do.
I think her life is still good but I am counting the days.
It's been know to get down to -35 F here, withOUT wind chill. (-40 is the same F & C). No one goes out much at those temps and school gets cancelled then too. Couple of years ago, 4 feet of snow got dumped in just a couple of days. Schools had snow days for the first time in 30+ years. The extreme temps and extra deep snow don't happen every year, nor last long (although it's better if the snow melts slowly). Those kinds of cold aren't really all that different from your cold for 1 simple reason: dry cold. Wet cold penetrates more than dry cold (provided you can stay out of the wind). 10 F (above, still below 0 C) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida FEELS colder than -20F in Montana.I am in the process of putting hen saddles on them... I think it helps as long as it stays dry for the free rangers. I’m toying with the thought of sacrificing an old rain Jacket instead for the outer layer... that’s more suited to our usual fall/winter conditions!
There were a couple times during the day I looked out and was worried actually about them blowing away... for the most part everyone sheltered out of the worst of it, but then there would be a lull and they would start foraging again only to get hit with another Blast.
Luckily these storms aren’t terribly frequent, with maybe 7 or 8 big ones each year, usually in fall and spring. And the sudden intense cold that came with it is even less common. Nothing like your wintersso it’s more of a shock when it happens
Ouch... just No. Neither I, my cats, or my chickens approve of those temperatures. We are used to the cold coastal damp weather. So one bonus to the arctic blast that hit us was it dried out the trailer a bit. Our average winter temperatures are 5 degrees Celsius to -3 in especially cold snaps, and it’s almost never in the negatives for more than a week at a time! Brrrr, just the thought of -29 C made me turn the heater up a notch.
I had to remount the propane heater when I picked up a desk (trying to improve our storage situation) and it’s not as firmly mounted as I would like on the trailer wall, so I’ve been reluctant to leave it in when I’m not home.
