Hoping for warmer weather this weekend...never thought I would have a countdown-to-spring in my head, but this is my first year ever raising anything outdoors (we've always had dogs only--and inside dogs, at that!). Amazing how you watch the weather closer when you have to go outside several times a day to check on livestock!
Loving that having chickens down back is giving me a reason to get outside every morning and every evening--as a high school teacher, I'm up early anyway, but it's fun being "forced" to get outside. I'm not as big a fan of shutting the chickens in at night because they don't all go in until it's fully dark (my pullets like to stretch out the evening in their pasture as long as possible), but I'm usually the spouse on chicken duty
Last weekend was wicked cold here in Albany, but my husband was able to get the framework up for the roof on my 12'X8' dog run. Sides are already enclosed in old storm windows, so that's cut down on the wind for the chickens already, but they'll like having a dry, warmer, snow-free run for the winter, I think! Of course, I'll be the crazy girl down snowblowing the chicken pasture to try to get them out into the rest of it. Hoping my electric fencing still works in the snow--we got the jacked up energizer (Kube 4000) to try to see if it will still pack a punch with some snow on the ground. Fingers crossed--we haven't had one breach of the fence yet and the chickens have been out in their coop/yard since the end of September.
Here's hoping for 50's this weekend!!!!
-Sarah
(oh, and just like everything else in life and on the Internet and social media--if I don't agree with something or read something I feel is crazytown, I just ignore it! People know when they're posting stuff that's "charged" and want a comment back--to ignore ends the discussion!)
