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[Faraday40]

Snow is almost here. Please stay safe and warm, my friends.

 

[Molpet]

Yes everyone stay home if you can.... Extra bedding for the chickens.

 

[Faraday40]

Yes everyone stay home if you can.... Extra bedding for the chickens.

My bantam flock will get to spend Christmas Eve inside. (Seramas have a little heat in garage but get to come inside when it's below zero.) Of course DD's spoiled silkie has been a house pet since November. Xansie had a spa day yesterday and "somehow" ended up red with a green crest.

 

[Faraday40]

Yes we really do have a Christmas hen. I also found out that Xansie, our spoiled silkie, also has her own TikTok

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqUQxyb/

 

[MixedFlock23]

Our serama & d’uccle are inside. My kids carried them in at dusk when we counted the others and locked the coops. It’s -5 here now (-22 with windchill) and I’m considering running out to check on the flocks again.

Tomorrow’s forecast is high of 5 with -15 real feel for the high. So the chickens will have to look out of the skylight to see the sky tomorrow. I sure don’t want any to get frostbite.
I can peek in on my main flock with blink, but haven’t gotten our second blink set up to monitor the smaller coop.

 

[MixedFlock23]

And… every outside chicken is just fine this morning. The rooster greeted me by crowing before I even got to the coop.

Stay warm everybody.

 

[Molpet]

Last night At lock up I seen an old lady chicken walking from an old falling down shed. I went over and one pullet was outside on a fallen tree, 2 more inside with a cockerel. I got a 10 ft pole and chased them out and they went into 2 different coops
Found another cockerel in a doghouse full of straw, I left him there and he was fine this morning. Later I found him sitting in the snow and put him in a broody coop. Gave him some more food but he didn't eat any. He is on the freezer camp list. May be sooner than I planned
Most of the turkeys stayed in the trees.-8f this morning WC-35.

 

[MixedFlock23]

Last night At lock up I seen an old lady chicken walking from an old falling down shed. I went over and one pullet was outside on a fallen tree, 2 more inside with a cockerel. I got a 10 ft pole and chased them out and they went into 2 different coops
Found another cockerel in a doghouse full of straw, I left him there and he was fine this morning. Later I found him sitting in the snow and put him in a broody coop. Gave him some more food but he didn't eat any. He is on the freezer camp list. May be sooner than I planned
Most of the turkeys stayed in the trees.-8f this morning WC-35.

Guess I worry too much! I’ve heard a lot of reports of farm dogs out playing unfazed in these negative windchills too. (All our farm pet mammals are inside with the teeny pullets for three days—but we only have cats & a bunny normally outside.)

Three of my hens were huddled in their outside dust bathhouse instead of going in the coop like normal & like everyone else. We moved them to the coop & locked everyone inside. Maybe they -like yours- just got too cold suddenly when the winds picked up that they all just ran for whatever shelters they could find.

Glad all is well. I’ve been outside twice so far. It’s still too cold for my liking!

 

[cavemanrich]

Merry Christmas to all.

 

[Molpet]

. Merry Christmas