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[hungnguyen]

Where is everybody today? When is the UT game? I plan to complete my new cage tomorrow if it not raining too bad, will take some pix. What happened to the person who started this thread?

 

[showbarnmom]

Tending to a 1 yr old that's sick working 7 days a week as well.

 

[lovingmyhens]

Where is everybody today? When is the UT game? I plan to complete my new cage tomorrow if it not raining too bad, will take some pix. What happened to the person who started this thread?

Sitting in traffic on my way to tutor. Trying to figure out why I'm sitting in traffic. Oh yea. Just remembered the highway is shut down

 

[lovingmyhens]

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Howdy back! I grew up in San Antonio. Went to Alamo heights high school

 

[TammyTX]

We went to Hogeye Festival today. It was nice because we got there early and the crowds were not too bad. Endured walking through the "car show" with my husband. ugh. He loves it, though. When I first met him in 1979 he had just bought a new Trans Am...we still have it.

If anyone is bored today the Hogeye goes on until 6:00p, I think. Lots of festival food and the prices are not as high as Austin. The festival is free to get in. Just find yourself to the middle of downtown Elgin!

We are back home now. yea!

I am the kind of person who LOVES to stay at home. I enjoy going out to dinner, too, but as far as shopping??? Unless it is a thrift store I am soooo not interested. Thrift stores are like treasure hunts!

Give me animals and gardens over crowds of people any day!

 

[Heidisgran]

my hatch over the last 2 day
5 faverolles
2 white leghorns
8 Russian orloffs

 

[TammyTX]

How sweet!!!

They look like robust little babies!

 

[chicki-vicki]

Happy to meet you - yep we did a lot of boating and skiing back in the day. That's exactly the kind of building I'm thinking of. Plan B, I'll stand a better chance of getting the inside finished out
and a run built this way. I have had the good fortune to have hired a helper, and am getting things underway. I just have to many irons in the fire. Had to wait for fall, it was to dang hot this summer.
Hubby still not over enthused, but I'm determined and it's my turn. LOL. Got to go for now, thanks for taking an interest.

 

[chicki-vicki]

I do not use heat lamps in coops. Frostbite is generally caused by condensation from poorly ventilated housing. We have vents, windows, and roof ventilation to prevent the condensation issue. The roosts are 2x3 cedar set flat so there is plenty of room for them to squat their breasts down on their feet to help keep them warm. Chickens have a body temps around 103 - even below freezing if you have them out of direct wind/drafts, they can do well without supplemental heat. If you do any historical research on poultry housing, you will see that even in places with heavy snowfall and colder temps than we have here, the coops were not heated or insulation and were often open air style with simply a canvas hung between the wire and the roosts as a windbreak. Was 38 degrees yesterday morning - everybody was fine and frisky when we got up - including the juveniles who are in open air grow out pens that do not have 4 wall coops on them, just 3 walls with the walls facing the north, east, west which keeps them out of the north wind.

I am still in the learning stage - no chicks yet - heck not even a coop yet - but determined to have it all together for spring.
I'm on the coast so winters are rally mild - but I too have been hearing this winter is going to be a cold one - hum
The coop I'm planning on will have storage/my side and the coop/chicken side - I 'm thinking a heat lamp on my side, I'm sure I
cant take the cold - maybe they wont mind a little warmth seeping over to their side, but I'm happy to learn they are so hardy. I probably
would have warmed them up to my comfort zone.

 

[hungnguyen]

Good luck Heidi. I had 2 nests that supposed to hatch last week but none came out because there was no eggs left. The rats ate all of them. I declared a war with those rats now. For chicks hatch at this time, 6 weeks from now their moms will leave them, and leave them behind when cold winter comes ..... make sure your heat lamp is ready.