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[roosterhavoc]

Couple of young stags I got left running loose

 

[sdm111]

Pssshh, snow! Historical flash flooding is where the action is. Although it's not as common as snow though we only get 100yr floods twice annually

 

[roosterhavoc]

Heavy snow coming down itself not an issue for me. Birds literally shirk it off. Blizzard conditions that often follow can be more problematic if pens get drifted over and with that my 4.5' pens are sometimes not tall enough. What I do with blizzard snow is have so wind block sets up so wind scours pen of snow making for a bare spot. That means birds are in relatively extreme wind but adults in good feather handle is just fine. The biggest problem I have had to deal with following a heavy snow events is it does not get cold enough when birds are directly below a roof. The warm snow evaporates then condenses on roof where it saturates air in the pen, even if it is largely open. This can get bird wet. Open air allows moisture to drift away. Feeding also requires an adjustment where I switch over to only coarse grain for a few days or even switch over to dropping in chunks of wetted feed. Water not needed as birds get plenty just pecking at snow.

I have had some hens roost in deep snows on the ground which shows they have another trick of adjusting on their own.

More than once my birds have gone for nearly two weeks without actually touching ground, They do some things to compensate that will surprise you.

you should have shoveled the snow out of the pens

 

[roosterhavoc]

Pssshh, snow! Historical flash flooding is where the action is. Although it's not as common as snow though we only get 100yr floods twice annually

lol I'll take the snow

 

[B123]

Although it's not as common as snow though we only get 100yr floods twice annually

Thanks for the laugh!

 

[roosterhavoc]

If you want a tough day, try going to doc to find out you and your kids all got strep. For the second time in a season.

Yeah that does suck.
A little of this shall fix you right up

 

[roosterhavoc]

By the way there was no cookies.

 

[gmfwlbrdr]

Im starting to think Cornstalk s are prize chicken bedding ,,keeps any mud down from these winter bouts of Rain.

 

[centrarchid]

you should have shoveled the snow out of the pens

Too many pens shovel easily and have been through such snow events many times. Remember I do have some age on me and had birds pretty much the whole time. I am also coming from a background where forefathers with a lot more birds than I have that left snow in place so a little inertia on don't fix what is not broke.

 

[centrarchid]

Temperatures will be pushing mid 50's today so will be putting pens on fresh grass.