grannys gone and done it

[Mutt Farm]

Keeping the water from freezing is the easy part, kepping your hands from freezing is a whole different ball game. I use cookie tin heaters.

I'll have to google them. My hands get so cold here when I'm cleaning the kennels and we never get below 28 or so! Low to mid 30's is typical. I put on the cheap knit gloves, then add disposable rubber gloves on top to keep them dry. It works pretty well.

 

[napdognewfie]

I don't keep it from freezing. Carrying fresh water several times a day gives me exercise and plenty of brisk fresh air (insert sarcasm here).

I think I will try to make a cookie tin heater for this year.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Keeping the water from freezing is the easy part, kepping your hands from freezing is a whole different ball game. I use cookie tin heaters.

Keeping the pipes from freezing must be a pain too, but I guess you are all set up for that.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Hi newfie, how you feeling ??

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Keeping the pipes from freezing must be a pain too, but I guess you are all set up for that.

ya, they are good to go but I have to drain the 125ft. hose out every time I use it and thats a pain. soo cold today...

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I don't keep it from freezing. Carrying fresh water several times a day gives me exercise and plenty of brisk fresh air (insert sarcasm here).

I think I will try to make a cookie tin heater for this year.

You forgot the fun part about slipping on the ice and skidding on your backside!

 

[Mutt Farm]

Terrible discovery today. There were a few eggs in the bantam coop and I noticed they had little black dots all over them. That means mites.

Dang broodys sitting all the time are just mite incubators! These must be northern fowl mites, since I see no red mites in the coop. Have to get #2 up there with a flashlight to help me check.

OH NO! Do you use deep litter? Will you have to strip and clean the whole coop? What do you treat with? Heck, every pesticide is illegal in Ca!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

You forgot the fun part about slipping on the ice and skidding on your backside!

had my fair share

 

[Granny Hatchet]

OH NO! Do you use deep litter? Will you have to strip and clean the whole coop? What do you treat with? Heck, every pesticide is illegal in Ca!

how about dish soap ?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

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The bantam coop is small. Not deep litter, but rice hulls which the mites don't like. The coop was sprayed a few months ago with flea spray for dog bedding, so I think cleaning the nest boxes will suffice. Northern fowl mites can only live on the birds, so you have to treat the birds. Lady at a Serama show told me to use a drop of Frontline (for cats, some people say dogs) on a patch of bare skin. Works like a charm. We toss the eggs for a while. Stupid Frontline doesn't kill fleas anymore, but the mites die. It's risky, but we don't eat these birds, and they are so small, mites can wipe them out pretty quick. Nothing else I tried did any good.