We got about 1/2" last night. In a few days, temps are going up into the 60's!
Let me tell you about the Delaware smarts. Isaac is so funny. The main flock goes in through the human door every night. Most don't like the ramp so DH blocks off the front corner of the coop with two window screens laid sideways, opens the gate and they come out of the pen and go in through the door, except for about three hens, coincidentally all blues, who want to be carried in by DH like Cleopatra (seriously, they jump on an outside roost bar and wait).
Since, from time to time, when Ike's girls have chewed on his wattles and/or comb too much and made them scabby, especially while on the roost at night, we have put him in one of the broody pens for an unmolested rest. He has apparently realized that he can go in there, eat the Knockout grains in peace and no one bothers him. Well, now, more often than not, when the group is going inside, he hangs back away from the door. Used to be he'd be one of the first inside and we'd have to prod him to move him away from the threshold so the others could jump inside. DH removes the screens and Ike will follow him across the yard to the broody pen (in Suede's coop, underneath Zane's cage) and go in on his own. Or, I'll stand in the doorway and call Isaac, who hoofs it over to me and goes right into his "batchelor pad". That boy isn't dumb in the least! Thank goodness the baby monitor isn't inside Suede's coop so when all three, Suede, Isaac and Zane, start crowing at 4-5 a.m., we are not catapulted out of our bed, LOL. The baby monitor is in the main coop so I do hear them, but it's more muffled, thank goodness.
