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[Mother2Hens]

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[Mother2Hens]

Okay guys, my coop temp as of a half hour ago was 16 degrees with 16% humidity. That would be fine, except there is frost on the inside of the windows. No frost on the chickens though. I have a window cracked in there, but I didn't want to let anymore cold air in than I had too. Any thoughts?

I don't know about that, but I googled "frost inside coop windows" and found this discussion: Frost on inside coop door & floor - Backyard Chickens
There were some other links you could check out. It's going to be 7 tonight here in the sunny south. Ugh!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

M2H- the meaties are cornish crosses.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Okay guys, my coop temp as of a half hour ago was 16 degrees with 16% humidity. That would be fine, except there is frost on the inside of the windows. No frost on the chickens though. I have a window cracked in there, but I didn't want to let anymore cold air in than I had too. Any thoughts?

they will be fine. You havent seen mu probably over 100 years old barn. the doir is ripped down the bottom leavig a bog gap from a wind storm. All the chickens are fine. Plus there are a FEW holes in it and they fair fine. Cant wait until a nice new barn. But that is years and a ton of savings away lol. Thats why I am building breeding pens. Not use the barn as much

 

[DarthLayer]

Woohoo!! I have a two hour delay tomorrow (for school) because of the temps, though I hope my hens and Roos are ok tonight..Supposed to get down to -2 but the feel like temp right now is -10!

 

[CluckAcres]

 OMGosh Cluck So good to hear from you!! How is the baby/toddler now I am betting?

the baby is good. It finally snowed pretty good here today. I hear the weather is not to good down there.

 

[kabhyper1]

Thanks guys. My chickens roosts are on the run side of the coop. So they sleep in front of one window that I normally keep closed. The other window is about 4 feet away from where they sleep, and I have the top sash open about 4 inches. The coop has little cracks here and there, and there is a 3 inch hole in the top of one side for electrical wires. Ventilation has been okay until tonight. So tonight because if the frost, I unlocked the chickens closest window and pulled the top sash just out of the seal. Its about 6 inches above their heads. I didn't feel any draft coming in, so I hope they are okay. This cold is stupid. The silkies seem just fine in their little coop. They are nuzzled in a pile in about 6 inches of straw.

 

[Mother2Hens]

Woohoo!!

I have a two hour delay tomorrow (for school) because of the temps, though I hope my hens and Roos are ok tonight..Supposed to get down to -2 but the feel like temp right now is -10!

You should live here in Evansville-- schools were out Fri., Sat., Mon., and they had a 2 hour delay today. The big problem has been all of the ice that we still have under the snow. I tried to chip away at several inches of ice on the sidewalk outside the coop and it's like concrete. We're supposed to have more ice on Friday night. Although it's still cold, not as bad as where you live, my chickens were out a lot today since it was sunny. Plus, I think they're realizing that the snow is going to be here for a while.

I love your black dog, Darth! It it new? A Lab?

M2H- the meaties are cornish crosses.

Thank you CCCH-- that's what I figured except I thought I remembered people saying that all they did was eat and poop since they were bred for size, and that as a result, they weren't too much fun. But, with all breeds, some are more personable than others, and hogster was lucky to get some nice ones.

 

[PeacefulWalls]

I've been waiting up for my daughter to finish homework and about 30 minutes ago I heard a noise coming from the basement. It sounded like when the septic alarm went off this summer. I was dreading what I would find. Instead of the septic alarm it was the well alarm. For some reason our well stopped working -- we have no water -- for us or the animals!! We thaw our frozen water bowls and waterers in the utility sink with hot water so they can be refilled. It also means our geothermal furnace (which uses water to heat) is switching to expensive electric heat mode. Yikes!! I hope we can get someone here ASAP in the morning!!!!

not good, not good, not good......

 

[Too Fast]

The story of Charlie's name (she is one of my only named chickens...)
She was one of the original 6 chickens I ever owned. As they were growing, I noticed that when I would take meat out for them, she would go away from the rest of the flock and be eating grass. GRASS! When there was meat out there!!! So I drew a conclusion (that was wrong) that she preferred greens to meat.

Now here's the name part. My husband (Chuck) tends to prefer to eat the veggies and not as much meat (I'm a REAL meat eater ) so when I thought this ee girl preferred the vegetation to the meat, I called her "Charlie" [for my husband....

].

Turns out that she was just bottom of pecking order and didn't want to get pecked when she was competing for the meat. Once I figured that out [I was new at chicken keeping so I was learning...] I made sure that I got some meat to her that she didn't have to compete for. She ate it like a pro and now competes with all the rest quite actively.

However, the name stuck. And the other ee gets called "Charlie's Sister".

So, there you have it.
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And yay for your 7-8 eggs. If they are young girls, they usually lay right through the winter their first year.



PS: When I was growing up we had a female collie that my little brother named "Charlie".

Love the story about the name.


Very cold this morning, almost 0.

Cock-a-doodle-doo, everybody.