Yikes !
I was going to go to one of the local feed stores on Friday, they're due to get their second shipment of chicks
but it's snowing here too, in western Washington ... yesterday we had "snow thunderstorm" ... big flashes of
light and growly thunder while it was snowing
got sun today and I thought, oh good, it's over
so I went to town and guess what? while I was in the store, it started snowing like crazy again
I broke down and bid on a coop on Craigslist, but haven't heard back whether I got it (no phone # in the ad)
I can just see me now, trying to get the 25 miles to Olympia over icy roads (the snow melted when it hit at first,
now it's below freezing) to pick up the coop ... luckily have 4wheel drive but roads here are hilly and full of curves
could keep the chicks in a cardboard brooder box in the upstairs shower ... now that I've learned how to keep the
brooder sweet smelling and not dusty (use thick weedy grass with a few herbs mixed in, scatter DE before adding
more bedding when the poo builds up, and give the chicks a perch so the poo is mostly right below it, not scattered
all over)
but I keep telling myself --- I really shouldn't get chicks now ... we will be doing some traveling this spring and I am
not 100% sure that DS would care for them the way I do