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sgtmom52 said:
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This morning is another cold one -1 with whindchill of -12 this morning.
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Now I see I am in the dark red (between where it says Scranton and Allentown on the map). Still have a ton of snow on the ground. At least when it all melts my well should be full! Still looking forward to warmer weather!!!

Katt, your chickens should be very hardy chickens to survive this winter :)
 
barbiegirl said:
This morning is another cold one -1 with whindchill of -12 this morning.
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Now I see I am in the dark red (between where it says Scranton and Allentown on the map). Still have a ton of snow on the ground. At least when it all melts my well should be full! Still looking forward to warmer weather!!!

Katt, your chickens should be very hardy chickens to survive this winter :)
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That's exactly where we are as well. Right smack in the middle of the red. D:
Fifteen minutes south of Hazleton and about 45 minutes north of Allentown.
I'm sooooo glad that at least once during "the Great Chicken Adventure of '13" I listened to my gut and that little voice whispering in my ear and insisted on enclosing the run completely in the heaviest grade clear plastic I could get my paws on.

DH is all like "They're chickens! Farmers a hundred years ago didn't cover their yard in plastic to give them a nice cozy place to peck around all day long!"

And I"m like "Yeah, but they're MY chickens. And I want them to have somewhere cozy to be out of the weather!"

Then he goes something like "Did your Mom cover the run in plastic when you had chickens on the farm growing up? Nope! Didn't think so!"

And I'm all like "No, but the chickens spent the winter hanging out in the BARN with a dozen HORSES to generate body heat and keep them warm! We don't have a BARN or HORSES "

Needless to say, I won and at least my chickens have a covered run to chill in instead of being stuck in the coop all winter.
 
Katt66 said:
That's exactly where we are as well. Right smack in the middle of the red. D:
Fifteen minutes south of Hazleton and about 45 minutes north of Allentown.
I'm sooooo glad that at least once during "the Great Chicken Adventure of '13" I listened to my gut and that little voice whispering in my ear and insisted on enclosing the run completely in the heaviest grade clear plastic I could get my paws on.

DH is all like "They're chickens! Farmers a hundred years ago didn't cover their yard in plastic to give them a nice cozy place to peck around all day long!"

And I"m like "Yeah, but they're MY chickens. And I want them to have somewhere cozy to be out of the weather!"

Then he goes something like "Did your Mom cover the run in plastic when you had chickens on the farm growing up? Nope! Didn't think so!"

And I'm all like "No, but the chickens spent the winter hanging out in the BARN with a dozen HORSES to generate body heat and keep them warm! We don't have a BARN or HORSES "

Needless to say, I won and at least my chickens have a covered run to chill in instead of being stuck in the coop all winter.
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I'm 45 minutes north of Allentown as well. I am by Camelback ski resort and the Crossings outlet stores.
 
Katt66 said:
@ dheltzel, that little Silkie roo is adorable! Good luck finding him a good home. I don't blame you for wanting him to go to someone you at least know. All the more reason I can not wait for Spring or at least warmer weather. I've gotta get my coop and run extended. All the while we were building last Spring I had this nagging feeling in my gut that we should go bigger. But as usual I didn't listen to my gut and speak up. And now here we are with a coop designed for 5 chickens but big enough for 10 and me wanting 15. XD And DH grumbling that if I'd wanted it bigger why didn't I just say something in the first place. You'd think I'd learn after all these years...
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I did find a great home for him, PAchickenlover has a lonely silkie hen. And that makes room for 2 lavender Ameracauana roos that I want/need for this year's breeding program. It's gonna be a 3-way rooster swap once the weather cooperates. All the roosters end up in places where they are valued, it's a win for everyone (especially the roos, who get hens instead of getting culled).
 
dheltzel said:
I did find a great home for him, PAchickenlover has a lonely silkie hen. And that makes room for 2 lavender Ameracauana roos that I want/need for this year's breeding program. It's gonna be a 3-way rooster swap once the weather cooperates. All the roosters end up in places where they are valued, it's a win for everyone (especially the roos, who get hens instead of getting culled).
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And that's the best win of all.
Too many gorgeous roos end up in the stewpot every year simply because they're not needed or can't find their way to the people who WOULD want them.
Glad to hear this rooster story has a happy ending.
^_^
 
I know the feeling Blarney,,,,I got duckies going into the mail system today.....hopefully exoress mail will get them here before the storm

I need to go look for an emoticon that is chewing it's fingernails...
 
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