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[BigBlueHen53]

Here's my entry #1.
Ryder, doing battle with a stick in the snow. The stick might win.

 

[WingItRanch]

Here's my entry #1.
Ryder, doing battle wigh a stick in ghe snow. The stick might win.

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The stick does appear to be winning...

 

[TxProverbs31]

I did my prep work on Friday, hoping to stay ahead of the storm. I put extra bedding in the heated/vented coop and then went into the run and filled the feeder and plugged in the waterer. The girls have been content to stay in the tiny run or inside the coop although I have opened the door to the run just in case if they decide they want to free range and check out the ice/snow. They have let me know they are not interested in checking it out LOL

 

[texsuze]

20*here with wind chill of who knows what. Everything covered with ice and/or "snice" (snow + ice). Can't believe the power has not gone out yet, given the Big Freeze 2021, although this time around we have generators. Still......

Girls were relocated to the barn, into the Barn Coop/Run, last Friday afternoon for "winter vacation" until maybe this coming Tuesday. Barn coop left over from years ago but comes in very handy in times like these and during Big Freeze '21! Plenty of windows, plenty of room to wander around inside the barn during the day and be secured in the run at night. Was 32* in the barn when I put the girls to bed a little while ago.

Stay safe, all!

 

[ATXInstantFlock]

It's been in the 20s for most of the day here in Austin and we got some sleet or freezing rain overnight, so everything is close to being a sheet of ice now.
A handful of brave neighbors have been sledding, but our poor senior dogs aren't super interested. A lot of slipping and sliding on routine potty breaks.

Sunday is normally our weekly chicken maintenance day, but school is already cancelled tomorrow. I kicked the can down the road and will get my jr chicken farmer to help me in the AM.

I was so preoccupied with everything else that I didn't check on our bucket waterers until this evening and unsurprisingly they are now blocks of ice.

I brought a pet bowl of water outside, but most of them had already hopped into the coop for the night and didn't want to come out for a drink. I guess I'll have to do some more active management of their drinking water tomorrow.
We live at the top of a hill that's iced over, so realistically there are no emergency trips to TSC for heated water bowls or anything like that.

 

[CCsGarden]

Brahms in the snow!