5F here and the auto door didn’t close. Also couldn’t see everyone in the coop for a headcount with the camera. Counted just three. Didn’t see anybody in the runs though. Went out to check, lifted the tarp over the auto door control box and the tarp is brittle, it crackled and split in a few places like a potato chip. Darn. Going to need a new tarp, it is three years old now. The AutoDoor box is saying it’s blocked by something. I did clean the threshold this morning, maybe some water has iced up on it. Luckily the manual outer pop door is good and the handle & vertical dowel nicely protected by the tarp. That door worked well, so will look into the other problem in the morning.
Opened the back to count everyone. Someone is crammed into the very back of the nest box, really hunkered down into the hemp, with someone crammed up against them. Peanut is on the roost side, on the heating pad, with Hazel most likely. On camera they were also trying to hunker up against the back wall. So I put the heating pad up to Medium. Will check again on them later.
Opened the back to count everyone. Someone is crammed into the very back of the nest box, really hunkered down into the hemp, with someone crammed up against them. Peanut is on the roost side, on the heating pad, with Hazel most likely. On camera they were also trying to hunker up against the back wall. So I put the heating pad up to Medium. Will check again on them later.
). I dread the holiday and the whole Christmas thing especially in my partner's family, and I feel guilty about it because I have no reason to, apart from being a grumpy, getting old chicken bat !
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