I hate this time of year, not talking about the holidays

Thats the price you have to pay to have critters,...sux don't it???

 

I agree with you! Pain in the butt doing chores but glad I only have one set of chicken coop to deal with. No other animals outside.

 

Awful, isnt it? Dont you hate these short days, long nights? Thats exactly why I moved to Florida, so I could enjoy my critters year round, instead of enjoying them for 8 months and dreading them the other 4. However, last year, and now this year, its so cold now I feel like I didnt move south enough.

Waahhhhh!!!!

 

Steve, it gets worse. I'm a few years older than you, retired and I hate this time of year more every year. I hate the wind! I hate the cold! I hate the snow! My back, fingers, feet, neck, oh Heck everything hurts. Is it Spring yet? edited to add: See that Raleigh, NC has had snow already. Here in NJ we are waiting for our first storm. Maybe it will stay South again this year like last.

 

I agree. Right now it's just good light as I'm leaving the house and it's just getting dark as I get home so no matter what the morning and evening chores have to be done in the dark. I really don't like trying to move tractors in the dark so now I'm having to do this in the mornings before I go to work when it's just getting light enough to see. Eggs we gather by flashlight in the evenings. If it froze hard in the night I have to thaw waterers in additions to everything else. It's been windy and in the twenties so the birds in the hospital cage have to be put into the big pet taxi where they can stay warmer and the same for the Kinger Major's new Silkie by himself in another wire cage. The waterer in the brooder box froze this morning but the chicks were under the hover and were OK.

This time of year I call them the "dark to dark chores." At least I sold off everything that was in the growout tractors so that's two less than I usually have to deal with.

 

And the bright side is.......in less then 2 weeks the days will start getting longer!!!!

 

Quote:I've had a countdown going for that since the middle of October!

I do all my chores, morning and night, in the dark. Except on the weekends. I wear a headlamp and I do have lights in the coop and the horse shed, but it still stinks. I am also sick to death of putting on big boots, arctic Carhartts, hats with ear flaps and mittens to do chores...and it's only December. I'monna be a big fat grump by April!

 

isn't it great? nothing like dealing with snow and frozen water in the dark before going to work. Dec 21st can't come soon enough.
am I the only crazy one who shovels snow out of the run ( is what I ponder every morning lately)

 

Quote:I don't know about that, I do not shovel the run....my flock pretty much stays inside all winter.

No frozen water here...the best buy was the heated water base form TSC.....life saver...!

I do shovel to get in to the run and coop tho!