fuzzi's Chicken Journal

[fuzzi]

Advice on chicken keeping in snow by @gtaus
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ainable-tips-and-tricks.1559066/post-29011298

 

[Appalachickens]

Dry snow has less moisture, doesn't pack, blows around and drifts readily. Can't make a snowman or snowballs with it. But it is easier to shovel.

So less-wet snow. Still made of water.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Dry snow. Soooo… water that isn’t wet? Or is that a weird way to distinguish regular snow from slushy snow?

Our cat (Psycho Kitty) loves dry snow. She bats and flips it around and generally disappears in her own cloud of snow while playing.

Skiers call dry snow powder. Perfect for skiing; doesn’t stick to the bottom of your skis, and a lot easier for turns and all, instead of hurtling down the side of the mountain over a sheet of ice.

Ober Gatlinburg (are they still around?) was notorious for frozen granular conditions. Feels a lot like concrete when you fall.

 

[Appalachickens]

If snow accumulates then I use a snow shovel to scoop the snow away from the fence gate, and chicken coop doors. Dry snow can be swept off steps with a broom IF done so before stepping on the surface.

We’d have to get way more snow than normal to affect the door into the run, which is about a foot off the ground. And the big doors into the coop /for clean-out) are waist-high for me. So blizzard of ‘93 type snow event I guess.

We do sweep snow off our porch and steps, though.

 

[Appalachickens]

Our cat (Psycho Kitty) loves dry snow. She bats and flips it around and generally disappears in her own cloud of snow while playing.

Skiers call dry snow powder. Perfect for skiing; doesn’t stick to the bottom of your skis, and a lot easier for turns and all, instead of hurtling down the side of the mountain over a sheet of ice.

Ober Gatlinburg (are they still around?) was notorious for frozen granular conditions. Feels a lot like concrete when you fall.

Powder - that's what I've always called it. Now I can picture "dry" snow. Great powder skiing in the Swiss Alps. Ober is still there but I never skiied there. The few times I've skiied as an adult I made the drive over to NC, to go to Sugar or Wolf Ridge.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Skiers call dry snow powder. Perfect for skiing; doesn’t stick to the bottom of your skis, and a lot easier for turns and all, instead of hurtling down the side of the mountain over a sheet of ice.

This. I will not be experiencing this dry North Carolina snow since I am in Utah right now…which supposedly has the “greatest snow on earth” except when it has the greatest smog soup on earth. The inversion is terrible right now. I do not envy my husband who will be taking care of my chickens back home though

 

[Molpet]

I use a leaf blower on dry snow. Get the wind behind you and it disappears.