How long before they starve and/or die of thirst?

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

At least my Bantam Ameraucana's always run to greet me and are happy to see me. Wait, they just want to peck the snow off my boots. UNGRATEFUL BRATS!!!

 

[joebryant]

Okay, in the bravest fashion of Jack London II, I put on my boots, coat, etc., opened the door and walked out to face the elements... ALL BECAUSE YOU REMINDED ME OF THE ... EGGS, eggs that I'm collecting for someone to hatch. Well guess what... NO EGGS.
AND they had the audacity to squawk because I was late giving them some birdseed treat.
Later today I'm taking the dumpling pot out, set it in front of them, and we're going to have a looooooong talk.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

I just got in from my second trip out there, and my sweet Sylvia, laid her egg right after I walked in. Maybe my talk of letting them run out of food and water worked !!! Of course I"m sure the pot would scare the eggs out of them. !!

 

[CTChickenMom]

It's wayyyyyyy to early for me to collect eggs! At 3:30 in the afternoon I often have my Cochin girl, Meiko, still laying her egg! I've rarely been able to collect eggs before noon! Slow pokes my girls are! They'll rush right up to me for their morning treat so I can barely get in the run and dilly dally all morning long.

Snow coming today, expecting upwards of a foot...they ought to be really slow about them eggs!

 

[Countrywife]

From someone out of the snow zone. All I have to contend with is the wind. No wait. THAT is what I feed the teenage boy/man child for- so HE can contend with the wind. Ya'll have fun with that snow, think I'm gonna get ready to plant this weekend.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

Oh sure rub it in. We could send some snow your way !!!! LOL !!!

 

[thespinningcottage]

We're FREEZING here in Arcadia. It must be, oh, 45 degrees! It was so, so hard to go out to the coop this morning. It's not expected to get above 70 this afternoon! Then, I'll have to brave the breeze to go collect eggs. It's a tough life, but I'm happy to sacrifice myself for the comfort of my friends up north.

<------those are sunglasses - it's unseemly bright today too!

 

[gryeyes]

Here in California, we're just contending with mud and muck. I gingerly stepped and slid and grabbed onto things to get the girls their feed and treats this morning in the heavy fog. Yesterday it rained so that adobe muck was SLIPPERY! I am too old to fall on my tush in that crud yet again. But it had to be done.

 

[CARS]

We just had another 7-10" of snow this week.... getting old. I have more miles on my snowblower than I do my car!

However, I will brave the snow, wind, and cold anyday to be without un-seasonably cold in FL (poor crops) or mudslides in CA. I can't imagine the snow sweeping my house down a hill and fill it half full of debris. We're equipped for this, you can't equip yourself for mud slides. (well, I really don't understand why anyone would build there anyway but I digress.)

Would have been a great year to own a snowmobile, that's for sure!

 

[thespinningcottage]

Hee hee! I know you love the snow, why else would you live there? I'm an ol' Miami/Fla. Keys girl, I'm afraid the snow would kill me dead....