The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Okay, first of all, this is another reason I am positive that MaryJo is Atlas's daughter, her egg color. The smidge of Delaware in her blood is really shining through in this deep, peachy-tan color. Thea's color is what you expect from most BRs, certainly all the Jill Burk line and the Stukels are most like that lighter beige. I've always loved the color of my Delaware eggs and MaryJo has brought it back in spades:

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And our snow pics for the day. The sun will take out the snow unless the temps drop too quickly today. Supposed to be 20* with windchills around -5*, according to one site.

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Very beautiful, especially against the blue of the sky. We got a bit of snow today. My birds are troopers and they go out. They run from bare spot to bare spot though, and mingle around the goat feeder. As it gets deeper they will wait for the goats and donkeys to stomp it down and will follow their paths to stand on the hay.

I hope you have a furnace with those temperatures. Do people down south have furnaces? I know most don't have basements, which is odd to me.

 

[speckledhen]

Just got off another 3 hour power outage. Big tree fell on the lines on the main road into our little area and they turned off power for safety, then had to wait on a big truck to cut the tree off the lines. Good grief.

Very beautiful, especially against the blue of the sky. We got a bit of snow today. My birds are troopers and they go out. They run from bare spot to bare spot though, and mingle around the goat feeder. As it gets deeper they will wait for the goats and donkeys to stomp it down and will follow their paths to stand on the hay.

I hope you have a furnace with those temperatures. Do people down south have furnaces? I know most don't have basements, which is odd to me.

Oh, I live in the mountains so I have a basement. It's rare that houses don't around here. In the flatlands, at or below sea level, that's where you do not see basements.

We have a heatpump, but it's the original one with the house, it costs a crazy amount of $$ to run it, the heat is "cold heat" if you get what I mean, blows cold for a long time before it feels at all warm. I hate it. So, we use only the soapstone wood stove, plus in the bathroom, we have one of those oil fired heaters to heat the space before we take a bath/shower. That alone runs up the electric bill. Last month it ran the bill up by $40. I can run heat lamps all over the barn and it will barely budge the total, but run that oil fired portable heater (1500W) for a few days, on and off, and we have the total skyrocket.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Maybe you should try a heat lamp in the house

 

[Leahs Mom]

OH...and I know what you mean about cold heat. We had a heat pump once....

 

[speckledhen]

Maybe you should try a heat lamp in the house

What's funny is that both bathrooms do have a double heat lamp fixture! If we're really freezing, we can turn on one lamp or two in the upstairs/main bathroom, but we have those white bulbs so it's like Las Vegas in there!

 

[Leahs Mom]

And...that can either feel like a vacation or like you need to get out of there ASAP.

 

[speckledhen]

...or just need sunglasses... we rarely turn them on, trust me. The red ones would be much better.

 

[1muttsfan]

And...that can either feel like a vacation or like you need to get out of there ASAP.

 

[getaclue]

It's very rare that I run the heat here, but I set it on 69 last night, and it ran all through the night. I'm pretty sure ours is a heat pump too. It blows cold air for a minute, not very long, then the warmth kicks in. The only thing I hate about running the heat, is that the air is so dry, and it dries out my sinuses, and throat. I put a pot of water on to boil, to add moisture back into the air this morning, but I'll go buy a vaporizer later today. That solves the problem nicely.

 

[speckledhen]

My bill would go up by $100-150 if I ran that old heat pump regularly. Can't afford to run it and can't afford to replace it. One day maybe we'll be forced to buy a new one if getting wood to heat us as our prime source becomes too much. It's expensive to buy wood, too, if you can't cut it off your property.