Texas

[NickyPick]

Oh and btw, @NickyPick may I share a saying you may have heard before and the addition I added to it while in the Navy back around 90/91... It seems your friend is suffering from a case of rectal-cranial inversion.

My addendum:
It appears to be a severe case too, what with all that ring-necked the collar.

The wording is rarely the exact same but, the message rarely misses the mark.

haha. He's a good egg, but is definitely obsessive on certain topics. He's a much better gardener than I am, so I continue to learn from him.

On the heat lamp topic - the only place I use a heat lamp is over my brooder, when the eco-brooders aren't working for some reason. The lamp sits on a hardware cloth platform, so there is no possibility of it falling and igniting anything. I'm following an OK homesteader on YouTube now, and his use of hanging lamps in his chicken coops and goat shelters horrify me. Hopefully, nothing will happen for him, but the possibility is so there. It's hard not to ream him out.

 

[Matejka]

@NickyPick you live fairly close to me (by Texas standards) we have relatives in your area. This cold is almost gone-clean up begins stay safe

 

[Matejka]

Good day!
Outside drinking coffee, planning my day.
Laundry first, gotta get it hung on line so sun can do it's job.
Remove part of tarp around coop- possibly shovel coop poop -depending on how energetic I get-it will probably happen.
Bring waterers to house and thoroughly clean.
Eyes tree branches-it will take ole tractor to remove-another day
Check plants for freeze damage

Life is good

 

[Kiki]

Pretty sure our neighbor lost all their chickens between Saturday and Sunday nights. We were in the negatives with almost a -30 windchill and I haven't heard a single call since

Where do you live?

 

[Matejka]

I have a healthy respect for energy. I use them when needed. From my POV. I have a very safe & solid track record with heat lamps. And almost everything electrically speaking. This time around I used it to mellow.out the drastic thermal variable that the waterers went through.... And the Momma silkie in full Broody mode.... It helped her to some degree (pun intended).... Alas someone kept knocking her clutch outta the nest.... This was a first as last year's tax team had no issue....so I guess my next round will start up in a week or so... I don't know yet...

Back to the stories of heat lamps.... The biggest problem.i have always seen.... The situations almost always seemed to be of short sightedness, carelessness or outright crap-tastic behavior...

So true! Heat lamps get hot, thats why they are called "heat" lamps. Common sense (which almost doesn't exist) prevents alot of missteps-with heat lamps-and in real life.
If you have a situation where you want/need a heat lamp, use common sense, don't plug it in and walk away/forget about it. Use, monitor,test amount of heat, adjust, retest then walk away (for a time)

 

[Derangedplanet]

Where do you live?

I live north of lubbock. Over in the panhandle as you guys call it.

 

[Kiki]

I live north of lubbock. Over in the panhandle as you guys call it.

Ahhh... Where it snows every year.

Yuck.

 

[electrycmonk]

That was a reasonably pleasant experience.... Lowe's may have been a "mad house" but, everyone seemed calm, and doing their best for distancing... Yeah the usual suspects still exist....(rolls eyes)

Got all the PVC parts I needed for the band-aid solution....

Stopped by are local business for water filters and they were wonderful as always....
www.pwgazette.com

Now to head home and put it together.....
It's already above 50°F! I was outside standing in a T-shirt thinking, that sun feels great. (Giggles)

 

[Matejka]

I managed to get coop 3/4 clean. My wagon was in use, potted roses is she so,tomorrow unload wagon and finish coop. Still got clothed to take off line-i hope their dry. Got ice off sidewalk, its total shade so shoveled it off. Did al that without a coat. Sweat shirt and flannels

Life is good

 

[electrycmonk]

Ran outta sun light and the temp dropped to fast. Only got about 1/2 way through the piping band-aid in the well house. When I got home discovered the Koi pond pump piping burst. They lost almost 1/2 of the water that wasn't frozen. I'll be prepping the air pump shortly... Need to boost the O² level for them before long.....