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[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Looks like BYC got some minor updates. Site looks different.

 

[Molpet]

Looks like BYC got some minor updates. Site looks different.

On my phone to post has the icons switched around and different

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

On my phone to post has the icons switched around and different

Yes and they changed quoting. There is a thread about the changes but 95% of targeted issues never bothered me.
They removed the script for reply and quote. Not sure what else besides some visuals.

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

This is new "similar threads "

Attach files is different.

 

[Molpet]

The bell keeps the number of unread alerts , used to be when I opened the number disappeared. Now it goes down as I opened the thread. I like that

 

[SnootyHen]

The bell keeps the number of unread alerts , used to be when I opened the number disappeared. Now it goes down as I opened the thread. I like that

Nice!! I always have to try and memorize which notification I read first so I can scroll back down and see the other new ones.

 

[Faraday40]

As we got hammered with snow this afternoon, 2 chicks hatched. (a serama and an orpington) My silkie (Xansie - the good broody) is sitting nicely on her golf balls and ready to adopt these incubator chicks. Normally, I'd just slip them under her, but due to the cold temps this weekend, she'll start brooding in the house. Funny, but my other silkie (MaiMai - the intellectually challenged hen) was supposed to be back in the bantam coop with her ONE chick a couple days ago. That's when I saw the cold snap and decided she should stay inside a little longer.

Here's my latest question: Has anyone had a panel heater in a coop in below zero temps? How cold does it get?

My seramas are already spending most of the day inside the heated coop area. They are inside the garage, so their run is already out of the wind & wet. The past 2 winters I just brought them inside when we dipped into single digit temps. This year I have more birds, so I'm not sure where to put them.

One neighbor offered to chicken-sit a couple seramas in her house for a few days. An interesting solution..... Perhaps I could box them up and distribute storage tubs of "useless chickens" to all the neighbors.

 

[Molpet]

As we got hammered with snow this afternoon, 2 chicks hatched. (a serama and an orpington) My silkie (Xansie - the good broody) is sitting nicely on her golf balls and ready to adopt these incubator chicks. Normally, I'd just slip them under her, but due to the cold temps this weekend, she'll start brooding in the house. Funny, but my other silkie (MaiMai - the intellectually challenged hen) was supposed to be back in the bantam coop with her ONE chick a couple days ago. That's when I saw the cold snap and decided she should stay inside a little longer.

Here's my latest question: Has anyone had a panel heater in a coop in below zero temps? How cold does it get?

My seramas are already spending most of the day inside the heated coop area. They are inside the garage, so their run is already out of the wind & wet. The past 2 winters I just brought them inside when we dipped into single digit temps. This year I have more birds, so I'm not sure where to put them.

One neighbor offered to chicken-sit a couple seramas in her house for a few days. An interesting solution..... Perhaps I could box them up and distribute storage tubs of "useless chickens" to all the neighbors.

You have chickens in the house and I have stupid turkeys in the trees, I got 2/3rds to go in

 

[SnootyHen]

My ladies are pretty upset with me today because obviously I chose to have this weather. In addition to all the snow I've been shoveling and trying to keep the run roof clear and everything else, I woke up to find the plastic tarp that covers 3/4 of my run ripped in the wind last night and the entire run got snow. I shoveled out what I could but it wasn't much because it's not easy to shovel snow on straw without basically just removing all the straw. Plus the gate to my run only opens part-way right now because of all the snow on the ground. I keep shoveling out pathways and stuff but Mother Nature keeps giving me more. So then the automatic door froze shut since it had snow on it that became ice so at 7:30 when I saw no chickens in the run, I went and pried it open and had to re-calibrate that. Then the coop door was stuck shut and when I yanked it open to go in and clean, I couldn't get it to close. Again. Got that fixed, fixed the tarp, added more straw on top of the snow in the run., chased the babies out of the nesting boxes (5 or 6 times)...I'm so over it!!! Today is my birthday and this was not my birthday wish.

 

[homeschoolin momma]

My ladies are pretty upset with me today because obviously I chose to have this weather. In addition to all the snow I've been shoveling and trying to keep the run roof clear and everything else, I woke up to find the plastic tarp that covers 3/4 of my run ripped in the wind last night and the entire run got snow. I shoveled out what I could but it wasn't much because it's not easy to shovel snow on straw without basically just removing all the straw. Plus the gate to my run only opens part-way right now because of all the snow on the ground. I keep shoveling out pathways and stuff but Mother Nature keeps giving me more. So then the automatic door froze shut since it had snow on it that became ice so at 7:30 when I saw no chickens in the run, I went and pried it open and had to re-calibrate that. Then the coop door was stuck shut and when I yanked it open to go in and clean, I couldn't get it to close. Again. Got that fixed, fixed the tarp, added more straw on top of the snow in the run., chased the babies out of the nesting boxes (5 or 6 times)...I'm so over it!!! Today is my birthday and this was not my birthday wish.

Umm.....Happy birthday?

I hope it goes better the rest of the day! Treat yourself to some hot cocoa!!