Squab update

[taprock]

I had two squab hatch in November. At the beginning of December they were moved in with parents when they weren’t staying warm. They have finally gone back out now that there has been a couple warm days. No more -25* thankfully! So we have some good and bad results. The smaller squab is fluttering around, checking out the aviary and perches. I have not seen any evidence that he is being picked on. The larger squab who was crippled made it about an hour before I found him drowned in the water dish. I’m saddened but not surprised. His keel was actually on the right side of his body so he had more wrong than his feet. The sad thing was he was actually better at flying than the other squab. Now we have to go through the next temperature drop tomorrow and see how he does.

 

[Lauren Kim]

What state do you love in that has such temperature drops? I live in NY and have never experienced something as extreme as -25°. I suppose it's global warming.

 

[taprock]

Tip of the mitten Michigan. It was -40 about 15 miles away last Friday. We are a higher elevation and it was -25. Today it is 43 and rain expected tonight. Tomorrow night it’s back to 7. Hard on humans, even harder on the animals.

 

[Lauren Kim]

Tip of the mitten Michigan. It was -40 about 15 miles away last Friday. We are a higher elevation and it was -25. Today it is 43 and rain expected tonight. Tomorrow night it’s back to 7. Hard on humans, even harder on the animals.

sorry just to specify, are you talking C or F?

 

[taprock]

Fahrenheit

 

[Lauren Kim]

whoaa. So I am guessing that your water freezes at night in the coop.

 

[Lauren Kim]

I am sorry I cannot reply right now, it is a little late for me. See you tomorrow at 7, possibly.

 

[laughingdog]

Ah yes, the upper Midwest.. how I miss it being on warm 20F days feeling like spring in jeans n T shirt, getting -20F at night, without wind chill coming off of the lake making it -90F to -100F etc where your breath can freeze in your mouth (that's just lower WI.). Why the phrase "winter is coming" is serious there and Russia etc. Lol

Sorry about your birds, but nature will Cull one way or another harshly if it's lingering nurtured to point life is only quantity over quality. Sucks to loose some though you try to help beat odds (I got one doing so for now).

 

[LamarshFish]

Yup, down here SE Mich we were looking at temps for the past couple weeks -10F at night and single digits during the day, yet it was 55F yesterday, go figure. Made for a good opportunity to offer my birds a bath.

What state do you love in that has such temperature drops? I live in NY and have never experienced something as extreme as -25°. I suppose it's global warming.

Never experienced -25F in NY? That is shocking to me. I think it gets that cold there from time to time, you may just not notice in the warmth of your home.

 

[Lauren Kim]

Yup, down here SE Mich we were looking at temps for the past couple weeks -10F at night and single digits during the day, yet it was 55F yesterday, go figure. Made for a good opportunity to offer my birds a bath.



Never experienced -25F in NY? That is shocking to me. I think it gets that cold there from time to time, you may just not notice in the warmth of your home.

I live on Long Island, possibly you live upstate?