snow and sleet in April?! So frustrated!

[TeamChaos]

It's April in Wisconsin and I should have known better than to think the snow was behind us... but I was so happy to open the windows in my chicken coop and to welcome my first broody hens. Well, now I've got two mamas with babies in the coop and two mamas in an uninsulated broody box in the run, all of whom eagerly want to bring their babies out again today in the sleet and I am freaking out. I also have big chickens who can't hang in the coop all day but who will be soaked when they do come in and I took their heating lamps down. ARGH! This is more of a vent than anything, but I keep telling myself that chickens have lived successfully for many years without heroic measures of human intervention... right?

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Quote:
Right! We are getting the same thing here in Michigan

I had a broody with babies this time last year and they did fine. I do not heat my coop or anything.

 

[dawg53]

Yall hang in there...nice weather will come your way soon! We are already getting 90-92 degree temps. I'm afraid it's going to be another record breaking hot summer for us and high electric bills

 

[obaan1]

High electric bills!! Yipes. Think of all the chicks you could buy instead for the price of one bill.

 

[flying_babyb]

Newaygo Michigan
your like a hour from me!

Weather here is ICK too but ours havent gone out yet, thank goodness. Im too much of a momma hen, I would end up dragging my babies back into the house. Anyone ever litter box train a chicken?

 

[TeamChaos]

Well, everyone lived! We made a "solar house" for the ladies in the broody box to have their chicks out in and the mamas in the coop spent the day ranging indoors with their little ones. But man, I am SO READY to be done with snow. Ugh.

 

[flying_babyb]

oh good, glad to hear everyone is ok.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Quote:
Well,

Hello neighbor! Check out the link in my siggy about the upcoming Michigan chickenstock.
I have 34 babies in the basement. 15 of them are four weeks old and they are starting to get a bit noisy. Maybe it will warm up enough this weekend to move them out to the coop

 

[Celtic Chick]

Quote:
You & me both! I just hope the weathermen aren't wrong about it being 60 by Tuesday.
Where about in WI are you, if I may ask?
So happy to hear everyone is doing good. That was some ugly weather the past 2 days!

 

[WoodlandWoman]

At least it'll be nice by the weekend.