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[Poco Pollo]

Beth - Neat coop. It's the kind of coop chickens have to get on a waiting list to live in. Very uptown

Anyone notice how shovels get heavier as they get colder? Seems mine weighs about 50 lbs. now. I'm going to let it warm up so I can lift it again.

 

[poultryand bees]

Diagonal snow still coming down. I am going to wait awhile before going out to check on critters. Hopefully, the chickens that roost outdoors had the sense to go into shelter sometime before the snow began last night.

Watching TV, they just threw a cup of hot water into the air and at 9 degrees and it came down as snow. Maybe if I get out later, I will try that just to see what it looks like.

My phone keeps ringing - so much for sleeping in.

 

[artsyrobin]

hi guys, awake again, cookin bacon and eggs- comin down hard out there, chickens refuse to come out of the coop and the ducks and goose are camped out under the porch....

so far no flicker in the electricity at all...

 

[poultryand bees]

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Today would be a great day to visit.

Too cold to go outside.

 

[okcarla]

Stimpy!

Hey, because of you, Gerald went to the Goldsby Community Center last July and the VFW guys helped him start the process for service related disability. He finally got a letter in the mail on Monday .... he is now rated 10% disability for tinnitus! Thank you Keith, for guiding him to those fabulous veterans!


Hi everyone!

I need to get back outside & check on all our critters, but the snow drifts and strong winds are brutal.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Some folks were buying smaller shovels yesterday, the kind you use to plant trees with, when the snow shovels ran out at the stores. As the TV announcer said, that may actually be an advantage since snow shovels can pick up a heavy load of snow and a smaller shovel can't pick up as much at one time, but may be more manageable. I moved the garden shovel yesterday and put it where I can get to it easily, along with the grain shovel. I think that the smaller shovel may be the way to go later this afternoon, when I try to take fresh water to the chicken yard. I will need it to dig out the gate.

 

[momofthree]

I am hoping my chickens survive this!! They are at our land about 3 miles from our house, i locked them in the coop last night with plenty of food and water. no electricity out there at all, and i so i put the deep litter all around the black rubber water bowl hoping to insulate it. i definitely won't be able to get to them to give them fresh water until at least wednesday afternoon at the earliest. there is enough water to last that long, i am just worried about it freezing over too hard to wehre they can't peck a hole in it

 

[Greybear23]

Hey has anyone noticed it is cold out!!!???? Oh and it snowed here too!!!! LOL

I did go out and help do chores this morning, Monty, thought I was going to have to tie a rope onto Jessie so I could see her in the blissard while she was busting snow drifts for me!!!! LOL Man I love that woman and she even puts up with me!!!!

The wind is really blowing here, my foot tracks in the snow were covered up almost immediately,

we had two stags up in carriers thet had snow blow in them, dug them out and put fresh hay in them, had to move one of the game hens I got to a carrier this morning, she is either molting or has been picked on but she don't have many feathers, she was really cold this morning, put her up in the barn in a carrier with lots of hay to snuggle up in,

hopefully she will be ok, will check on her later, I lost fifteen of my baby chicks in the brooder,

they got cold and huddled up under the light and some smuthered,

I put another light in and ded and watered them,

made them move and walk around,

will check on them every couple hours today,

It is extremely cold, please do not go out unless you have to, if you know someone that is elderly please call and check on them or if you can get to them to check on them,

Please stay warm and safe today,

be careful with heateres inside and your wood stoves, be aware of your suroundings and keep stuff away from heaters, STAY SAFE,

Lynn

 

[BetsyOK]

Vashi measured 8 1/2" in our long driveway a bit ago, and it is coming down hard and diagonally. The upside is that it's not sticking to power lines or hardwood trees! Haven't been out to check on the poultry yet. I'm dreading the possibility of having to dig out access to six outer doors and maybe a lot more inner coop doors than that--18 -20 if much snow has blown inside their pens. Most have feed and water inside their coops, but the water will be frozen by now. The heated dog dishes are outside the coops, so they won't have water until I release them.

News just now said we're expecting another 4 to 6". Oh boy.

Vashi isn't expecting to get to go to work until this weekend, as we have alot of long, steep hills between us and his shop. He'll be getting pretty antsy by then.

I cooked a bit pot of Navy beans with a ham bone yesterday!

 

[okracefan]

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Haven't thought about it much, I expect there could be some very interesting birds come from this cross, Maybe some big (as in bird size} good egg layers, If I'm lucky maybe BBS colored with the Brahma hackle. I really thought they would be good for a test run on bator.

That's kind of what I was thinking, maybe some lacing in their hackles thats blue, They should be big but will fill out late as nice big laying hen's, go to about 14 mo and they will be fat big Ole layers.

The Light Brahma is still one of my all time favorite breed, I used to have some. Sold em, I think Blanchard this past summer.

AL

I bought a very good looking roo (wife calls him Romeo) and a hen and pullet from you last summer.