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Rubysword said:
Yup. Had to shower this morning, otherwise I would have woken up right about now. Time to prepare myself to walk into the frigid wasteland that is outside(well, not really a wasteland. Too many rats for that.)
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Gosh rube!
Yuck.
Get your dad on that STAT!
And have a super day at school.
 
rjohns39 said:
Morning... a blustery 15* here.
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Wow!
That's chilly for sure!
My daughter called from Knox last night and said it was super cold and so glad we got her a good coat!
It's only a brisk 30 here!

Edited twice! My fingers aren't working yet!
 
19* this morning. Dad came up to me and asked "Where is the best place in the coop to put the heat lamp in." Needless to say, I super-duper freaked out. No dad, no fires in our coop, please! Sigh. Oh well. Just to make sure, the chickens will be fine, right? They have had no supplemental heat, so they should have acclimated of their own accord.
 
Rubysword said:
19* this morning. Dad came up to me and asked "Where is the best place in the coop to put the heat lamp in." Needless to say, I super-duper freaked out. No dad, no fires in our coop, please! Sigh. Oh well. Just to make sure, the chickens will be fine, right? They have had no supplemental heat, so they should have acclimated of their own accord.
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Mine are already outside and doing chicken things even though it's barely light out.
 
Good morning all. Last night was glorious. The milk drinker let me sleep from 11:15 to 5:15 and then until 7:30!

Rubysword said:
19* this morning. Dad came up to me and asked "Where is the best place in the coop to put the heat lamp in." Needless to say, I super-duper freaked out. No dad, no fires in our coop, please! Sigh. Oh well. Just to make sure, the chickens will be fine, right? They have had no supplemental heat, so they should have acclimated of their own accord.
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Good heavens, no! My chickens are fine at 16*. I almost burnt my own coop down once. We had a heat lamp out there and the chickens kept knocking it over into the shavings. My FIL found it in the shavings one morning, moved the lamp to the rafters and didn't think anything more of it. I went out that afternoon and kept smelling wood smoke. I noticed it smelled most strongly in the coop but didn't see anything. The chickens had knocked the plastic basket we were using as a nest box over onto the floor. I picked it up and it was half melted and all the shavings underneath it were black and smoldering. I quickly ran out and got a snow shovel and threw all the burnt shavings out into the snow. They never caught fire, but smoldered for hours because they were starved for oxygen under the basket. It left a nice scorch mark on the linoleum and the coop smelled of wood smoke and melted plastic for a couple of weeks. But I narrowly avoided having my coop burned to the ground.
 

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