Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[snowflake]

Maybe 4 or 5 in. Light fluffy stuff should shovel easy. Very cold though, the chickens were still in the coop when I went to give them a treat to help with the cold.
No eggs for a month or 2 and now, colder then blue blazes and now I have a hen that decided to start laying. Hope they don't freeze before I find it.

 

[RaZ]

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I didn't know chickens could swim.

 

[1muttsfan]

Here's one of Jimmy's girlfriends down here - Wood Stork

 

[Sally PB]

We got about 3" of fluffy snow. Very pretty. The sun is peaking out and making it sparkle.

DH snowblowed the driveway. The Falcon plow is resting in the garage until he can get the transmission fixed. There's a leak somewhere, and any transmission fluid slowly leaks out.

The friend we bought it from has another tranny for us, but now it's way too cold to be wrenching in the garage. They were going to work on it last fall, but the friend was very sick with kidney issues, so it's gonna be a project for the spring

 

[aart]

Snow fairly is light, but ground is warm enough to kinda melt the snow underneath.
Not sure I want to try to clear the driveway today....will wait until they plow the road shoulder.

 

[Folly's place]

About six inches here, light and sparkling in the cold. Intermittent sunshine, beautiful!
Just came in from chores, and had a near miss with a Cooper's hawk. Saw one this morning hunting the field south of the house, and fly off. Opened the coop door, chickens not pleased about the snow. So I spread some scratch in the coop, and decided to keep them in today, and closed the door. As I turned away from the coop door, a Cooper's hawk went airborne, maybe forty feet away! Must have been watching that open door, and the chickens just inside. Too bad for the hawk, but at least one chicken saved today.
Mary

 

[RaZ]

Took a drive into town along the bay. Whitecap waves crashing on the frozen shore. Sending up large sprays adding to the iced beach. Sun was out making the spray all sparkly.
Too damn cold though. My fingers are frozen even though I was wearing gloves the whole time. Curse this syndrtome.

 

[Sally PB]

I took the chickens some mash with some electrolytes mixed in. They're staying in the original part of the run, as there is snow in the addition. I added onto the run to make room for the snow, I guess.

 

[IttyBittyBirdy]

The Brothers seem to like sitting on the posts. "If I fit I sit"

 

[Folly's place]

The Cooper's hawk has been around all day hunting. Hope she(?) gets one of those house wrens, and goes away! Meanwhile, the chickens will be locked in again for the week!
Not terrible, they don't want to play in the snow anyway.
Mary