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[patandchickens]

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No. It's mine and I'm KEEPING IT, you hear? I've got a manure fork (several tines broken off from trying to remove horse manure from frozen ground) and I'm not afraid to use it. So HANDS OFF MY WEATHER!

<snort>

Actually I will happily pass this weather (it is -15 C right now and sunny) onwards to you and the rest of the Maritimes, once I can trade up for something warmer still

Pat, getting punchy from being stuck in the house with kids

 

[morelcabin]

Pat you are soooo lucky...we are riding -26 here still, but it IS supposed to lift tonight or tomorrow...THANK GOD I can't do this anymore!

 

[Mrs MIA]

Hehehehe... welcome to my world. Or at least what it was.

The wind and rain just hit, HARD, and I'm afraid to go outside. Lights are flickering... man, a power outage would sure help with the electric bill. Got ours yesterday... over $500...

That deep cold and trying to keep chicks warm is killing me.

 

[LynneP]

Trust Pat to bring a manure fork to a gunfight!

Trade up, trade UP.

Tori- Bgack! $500.
(gasp)
Still, I hope your power holds. Just heard large parts of Toronto are without power and not expected to get it back for many hours. They're asking people to run taps to stop pipes from freezing...


Heading down to the coop shortly. Biggest prob is keeping the horse in. You'd think at 37, going on 38 he'd be glad to stay in.

 

[patandchickens]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

man, a power outage would sure help with the electric bill.

ROTFLMAO. Sympathetically, of course

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Huh, I wonder why? (I don't watch/listen to the news, I never know these things unless DH mentions it). It's been still and clear and nearly snowless, not like there is wind and freezing rain and such. Go figure.

Biggest prob is keeping the horse in. You'd think at 37, going on 38 he'd be glad to stay in.

I find that the older ones tend to a) have very set ideas about their daily schedule, and b) prefer to be able to move around at will, for the sake of old stiff joints.

My fairly arthritic 21-yr-old TB has a 11x18 stall and still stiffens up something awful when kept in at night.

Good luck, hope this "warm" air gets there soon,

Pat, expecting (hah, isn't that the big 'kick me' sign) maybe only -23 C -ish tonight, hope hope hope, and reading a book about passive solar heat storage for greenhouses and coldframes

 

[luvmygirlsinAK]

Well, we got ya beat for warmth, Tori!

48 F. that's 48 degrees above zero!!! 100 degrees different from what it was a week ago!!! They said on the news today it was a hawaiian wind-course we call it a chinook

But just like I told the chickies the other day, Hawaii has come to us!!! It feels like spring,

smells like spring!

looks like ... spring break-up

And to top it all off, the _30 F. that we were supposed to get on monday is no longer in the forecast!!! Yahoo!!!

By the way, if it looks like I'm bragging to all you who are suffering from the cold we put up with just I short time ago-I am!!

Just make sure ya keep yerselves warm, so I don't have to feel too guilty, now ya hear?!!!

Edited to add: The temperature in the coop today was 65 F. with the windows open!!!!!!! This is unreal!!! O.K, now someone pinch me!!! Like seeing all the car accidents today from icy roads wasn't enough to wake me up!!!

 

[Catalina]

Wow lucky you!
It's only 10F here and it feels like a heat wave. I can't imagine 48F!

 

[LynneP]

Still -20 here. RGH.

Pat- I agree about older horses, he's a sweetie but I think they depend on light action of whatever fluidity is left in the joints. He nuzzled me today and whispered for exit, but I can't, the footing is terrible even with traction sand and stall sweepings. Maybe Monday as the new snow comes and the grip is better. I give him canola oil in his daily bran mash to keep him warmer, he's seems fine in that department. He also misses being with 'his' hens, the coop doorway on the inside is beyond his reach though he can hear them. He does have several cats sho adore him, so that's a consolation. I haven't asked the vet for Azium either- I know I can get it and will if I see stiffness of a significant variety.

 

[Catalina]

37F!!!!!

Spring is here!

for now.......

 

[gaitnfool]

Hi everyone,
I live in northern Illinois and lately it has been soooo cold. I woke up 2 days ago and the temperature was 27 below 0.. and the wind chill was 47 below 0 ...YIKES I had to ad another heat lamp in the coop. Now there are three. It seems that the 3 heat lamps works for them. They seem comfortable for the first time in days.

well, I deposited 6 new ones tonight...they started to fight so I shut the light off....hopefully they will wake up quietly. They were not supposed to sell me any roosters...but it appears that I have 2 in the bunch. Stay warm...Deanna