If I have to....

[gritsar]

Really now! I have a nice routine in caring for the chickens and that routine does not include dealing with snow!

Now it's my naptime and I can't because I have to wait for the man from the gas company to bring us even more propane.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

It is actually my mother's idea. Despite the fact that I am 41 years old, she tends to worry about my safety. You should hear her in tornado season. She is convinced that one day a tornado is going to come and blow me apart.

(And while this is a possibility, there is absolutely nothing I can do about it either way!).

So my concession to Mom is to carry a cell phone out to the coops, especially at night. It is a good idea, given that I live in the boondocks!

 

[acid_chipmunk]

My hubby just made 8 cookie tin water heaters for less than 4.50 each! Sure beats hauling water every morning before I go to work, then again when I get home.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Remember makin' mud pies as a kid? Well, I've been using little rubber pans for water and turning out the frozen blocks of ice and refilling them a couple of times a day until it warms up enough to go back to useing the regular waterers.
Now I have a pile of "ice pies".

Maybe I can do something with them... I dunno, build an igloo or something.

 

[slightlyscrambled]

I wouldnt go through winter without my cookie tin heaters, they are a life saver. I even made a small one for the rabbit! Still have to carry water but only once in the morning.

 

[gritsar]

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I have a bunch of ice pies too!

 

[AK Michelle]

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BTW, who has the destructions for making those?

 

[arabianequine]

There is ice carving competitions for you ice hoarders.

I carry cold water about every other day....I have heated containers. I use dog heated water bowls for the chickens. Way cheaper then the chicken heated waterers by half price.

 

[call ducks]

Ugghhh a foot plus snow coming

two storms combing in to one.... Nahh grits you can keep the snow

 

[mississippifarmboy]

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I'm jealous. I want heated waterers.

All I need is, electric to all the coops, about 150 extention cords, and all those heated bowls.
Might be cheaper just to have more kids to help tote buckets.