NY chicken lover!!!!

[TheBarnSwallow]

Sound slike some of the temps are no different than that when we lived in CO... Here is Oklahoma we get ice storms and it can be pretty cold on days too... we used heat lamps in our Coop... I didnt know if we would need to do anything different since I keep hearing about the wicked weather yall can get

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

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Are you bringing your chickens with you or are you replacing all of them? I guess each state has its own kind of inclement weather. Good luck with your move.

 

[happycountryhens]

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Ahhh wicked, smicked - all you need is tall boots and a good snowshovel! Oh, and a good back...it is very essential to snow removal.

 

[rancher hicks]

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Ahhh wicked, smicked - all you need is tall boots and a good snowshovel! Oh, and a good back...it is very essential to snow removal.

Not necessarily. I hate snow. I use a snow blower to get to the coop and if I didn't have to go out or DW didn't have to go to work that would be all I needed it for. I'd just shut the door and hibernate til spring. Did I mention I hate snow?

 

[stonykill]

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Ahhh wicked, smicked - all you need is tall boots and a good snowshovel! Oh, and a good back...it is very essential to snow removal.

Not necessarily. I hate snow. I use a snow blower to get to the coop and if I didn't have to go out or DW didn't have to go to work that would be all I needed it for. I'd just shut the door and hibernate til spring. Did I mention I hate snow?

snow is just work. Nothing but work. I use a Gravely snow cannon to remove the snow, but like oyu if i didn't need to leave now and then, I'd only clean paths to the chicken coops, and walkways for them to free range. Well for the Sumatra's to free range. The RIR's won't leave the coop when snow is on the ground.....

 

[greymane]

Off to auction tomorrow. Who knows what we will find?

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

How did everyone's gardens fair this year? My started out great. Got an early crop of zucchini, some beans, carrots, cukes and tomatoes. Oh yeah and one measily little pumpkin. After the wet spell I lost all squash. The plants just up and died. I usually get bushels of butternut and pumpkins. I'm disappointed. The only squash that survived were the delicata and 1 rouge v'etempes pumkin that I put in the raised bed along the house.

 

[Cass]

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How did everyone's gardens fair this year? My started out great. Got an early crop of zucchini, some beans, carrots, cukes and tomatoes. Oh yeah and one measily little pumpkin. After the wet spell I lost all squash. The plants just up and died. I usually get bushels of butternut and pumpkins. I'm disappointed. The only squash that survived were the delicata and 1 rouge v'etempes pumkin that I put in the raised bed along the house.

Yup, my vine crops just withered in the rain....not sure if it was the water or lack of sun....I didn't even ONE winter squash...just a couple pumpkins....and the green tomatoes that fell off the vine are still ripening, so I am still canning a lot of tomatoes.​

 

[vmdanielsen]

Tab's chicken obsession :

How did everyone's gardens fair this year? My started out great. Got an early crop of zucchini, some beans, carrots, cukes and tomatoes. Oh yeah and one measily little pumpkin. After the wet spell I lost all squash. The plants just up and died. I usually get bushels of butternut and pumpkins. I'm disappointed. The only squash that survived were the delicata and 1 rouge v'etempes pumkin that I put in the raised bed along the house.

mine did the same..disappointed- swiss card rotted on the stalk still getting kale.. hope that doesn't start to rot too.​

 

[Henicillin]

Our tomatoes did well until the wet spell, after which we were plagued with splitting fruits, as well as something (probably a raccoon) eating half the stupid things as soon as they ripened. Since then they've been ripening well again (and the Mad Tomato Eater has moved on). There are a bunch of nice green ones out there I need to pull off soon, before we get a cold snap.

Otherwise, the gardens were "meh." We got a few cukes, some beans, and a whole passel of these oddball little turban squashes that are more decorative than useful, and that the chickens love. We also have two small pumpkins. We got no zucchini (all died) and only a couple of summer squash before they too bit the dust. There are some rutabagas still in the ground that appear quite happy, and we don't know how the potatoes are doing yet. Good thing we don't depend on any of it (that's what the buying club/CSA is for), as we'd be in trouble!

Of course, part of this is because DH tends to disregard anything I suggest with the big garden plots, so they end up weed-choked, eaten, or dead. I won't let him do what he wants on the deck boxes, so we do get tomatoes and beans and so on. After two years of fairly cruddy results, though, he now says that he'll take my input into consideration next year instead of winging it.