"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[harryg6167]

I was out of hay and needed it yesterday so we went down to
one of the Ace Hardware stores in ou area. They also sell
feed and small animals and also had hay and I really had to
have it.
I nee to go into the hay selling business I guess instead
of fooling with chickens.
1 bale of hay and I payed 9.30 with tax.
Better start getting more eggs now. Been very cold here today
also and spent most of it getting chickens prepared for the cold.
Have just hatched out 31 baby chicks so you can imagine
how noisy it is getting here in the house. Good luck
everybody with the cold weather.

 

[Blueggchick]

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Wow...that is high for a bale of hay! I can give you a number of a man in Tickfaw,which is less than a half hour south of you who I get my hay from for $6 a bale. PM me if interested.

Yes, it is freezing here in Tangi! I am about 25 miles south of you, and it is supposed to go down to the teens this week with some possible snow Thursday. Very weird for SELA. Hope you and your baby chicks stay warm!! I have some babies also I had to bring in. I worked all weekend on trying to make sure all my gals and guys are warm during this freeze we are having.

 

[chickenlittle32]

My pond was iced over!!!! It is so cold here LOL I am glad it isn't windy tho...OMG!! How did everyone else make out ?

 

[JP33]

Hey Harry, I've been under the weather since Sunday is why I haven't called. Probably will just hunker down, get better & come your way when things are better. Fed the chickens hot mash this morning, they loved it.

As far south as I am we're even getting pretty darn cold. Gonna hook up a heat lamp real soon for the chickens, so they don't freeze.


...JP

 

[harryg6167]

Was looking and think it showed on Wednesday night is when
it is supposed to get cold? Then like for 3 days the temps were
16,18,19. Not too worried about the cold but when the rain gets
here Wed. and Thur., I think about the power lines getting
heavy with ice and breaking. We are on the tail end of the line here so it
is sometimes a few days before they get to us.
Harley,
About the price on the hay. If you are farmiliar with Hometown (Ace Hardware)
in Amite you will know why I had to pay such a high price. But, i needed
it and was going that way so I stopped in and got it. Normally where I
get my hay I pay nothing. Would have understood that price
if I was buying alfalfa.
JP, Hope you get to feeling better soon. I will try and call you later on this
afternoon. Had to take oldest daughter to orientation this morn. Starts college Friday.
Packing car now and heading to Lafayette tonight and will be there most
of tomorrow.Hope to be home by dark but will try to call and check on you.
Hope all make it okay through this little cold spell okay.

 

[catsmithpuddin]

hey everybody,

just saw this thread. we are from haughton (up here by Bossier City)

we got 3 hens and a dude all barred rocks i think. kinda new to this.

as far as being southern arkansas..........LOL

I do love to go down to Dulac to catch some reds every year. and we get the best boudan out of Carencro. Gas Station called ???Moulats??? buy a case every time we go down so the wife can make boudan balls every once in a while. OK now I'm getting hungry. May have to put in a order!

 

[La Mike]

Welcome Catsmithpuddin

Also from Haughton

MIKE

 

[hippichick]

Welcome, Cats! Not sure where Haughton is, but have been to the Bossier/ Shreveport area a few times. Really nice there. Also spent some time on Caddo Lake a couple of summers ago. Really pretty lake, and we enjoyed our week there. My hubby works in Arkansas, so we've met in Shreveport a couple of times because it's about a halfway point. Not sure about the Southern Arkansas thing either, but I'm about 8 miles north of I-10, so I guess I qualify too. lol Grew up in Lafayette, spent a few years south of Crowley, and now in Branch, and love it here. Couldn't live in the city again.

 

[La Mike]

Haughton is next town east of Bossier City

Everyone be careful of bonfires this week they may just freeze lol

 

[catdaddyfro]

If ya'll notice the one person that suggested anyone north of I-10 lived in south Ark. well hellsbells he's alivin' in east texas and everybody knows that east texas is the part of the US that only poor navigating cajuns ended up at.

Yeah its cold here in the hill country the closest we get for local weather is Alexandria and we're usually 2or more degrees cooler because of elevation. A lot of people don't think of it but 400' is alot higher than sealevel which most of La is, or under, and on these hill tops there's nothing between the cold north air and you but a pine tree and they don't make the best wind breaks in the country either.

I spent the afternoon wrapping the coop in cut up dog food sacks, worked out good as they are basicaly the same as Tyvek weather wrap for constructing houses. Tomorrow I'm gonna rake up a couple a wheelbarrow loads of pine straw and oak leaves to floor the chicken coop with. I think I'll have them weather proof enough as long as it doesn't come a turd-floatin' frog strangler before the cold really hits here later on in the week and weekend. If we make it to Sunday all should be headed back up by then and hope that this is the worst it will be for the rest of the winter.

Everbody bundle up and hang on a few days and we should be good. See ya.

catdaddy