Free ranging in snow?

[aoxa]

It must have been the first one the kaikin campbell but it was grey or blue it is in the third picture of the last post .

Must have just been the tone of the photo Thanks though!

 

[bruceha2000]

Oops. I meant "Fahrenheit."

There is a little pencil just to the left of the red flag on the bottom the posts. The pencil will only show on your posts. You can fix those little "oopsie"s and no one will know

The cochins made it through the heat hopefully it wont be quite as hot today finger crossed.

I've read that some people put blocks of ice in the water so the birds can cool down. I've lived through 45C and above. I didn't like it much.

I bet it lays lots of REALLY small brown eggs.

Bruce

 

[aoxa]

There is a little pencil just to the left of the red flag on the bottom the posts. The pencil will only show on your posts. You can fix those little "oopsie"s and no one will know

I've read that some people put blocks of ice in the water so the birds can cool down. I've lived through 45C and above. I didn't like it much.

Sorry.. Not sure which duck you mean? The Khaki Campbell?

Heck with that, I want to know what kind of chicken THIS is:

I bet it lays lots of REALLY small brown eggs.

Bruce

That there is my 'special' chicken named Frankle.

 

[CountryGeorge]

My chickens were hatched in mid April so of course this is their first winter and boy, didn't they put on the brakes when they first saw all that white stuff on the ground! Finally a couple of the brave ones ventured to set foot upon it and that started the parade and now all of them couldn't care less about snow.

 

[debir1966]

That is how mine are acting - they are HAPPY when we open the door in the morning and all of them come running out like a flood of feathers and feet! LOL They run around if it is nice, or run around and then go dig in the barn or old shed if it is stormy.

My young girls are starting to lay (hatched end of June) and we have had one or both of the leghorns lay (only chickens I have that lay white eggs), and yesterday we got a small brown egg - no clue where that came from LOL. Our older ameraucana is laying again finally... I would think it was one of the young ameraucanas but the eggs are pretty big for a starting layer.

I have been seriously thinking about adding some light because we depend on the chickens for our egg supply.

 

[satay]

Lovely snow photos. I do put ice in their waterer's and i double the amount of water they have on hot days. Then i just keep refilling it. yesterday was 41.3C so a little cooler but still hot. Nice to see all the lovely photos from the cooler side of the world.

 

[flyinhigh]

One winter it snowed so much we had to dig tunnels for the hens to move around. One morning the snow had frozen. I dug a small bowl in the snow and filled it with orange juice. The flock loved it! Only once years ago did one of my hens lose part of her comb to frost bite. Now I fill all the drafts spots with newspaper, hay or straw. When it get warmer I unpack those spots so they won't get mouldy.

 

[bruceha2000]

... yesterday we got a small brown egg - no clue where that came from LOL. Our older ameraucana is laying again finally... I would think it was one of the young ameraucanas but the eggs are pretty big for a starting layer.

The first egg from the EE that laid first was a double yolk X-Large. She's backed down to L since then. The other EE's first egg was a Large.

Bruce

 

[Michele C]

My chickens didn't much like the snow a month ago... they were slipping around and, I have to admit, it was hysterical. This past weekend it snowed while they were free ranging and they went from having grass to much on (albeit brown grass) to snow everywhere they walked. I swept a path from our house to the coop... the ones brave enough to venture away from the coop jumped on it before I even finished!

 

[CluckyCharms]

Newbie question - what exactly is that animal?