The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Well the kids should do good with those! I like the mottled ones. That and red are about the only cochins I like. I like mottled in anything!lol I have one little oegb hen that is blk/wht mottled.Thats the only reason I have her. I got tired of the oegbs. Used to have all colors. Now I'm likeing birds a little heavier!
Its really snowing hard here now. Just about to cover all the old tracks!

 

[SPRING CREEK FARM]

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Good grief! I am still at work here in Dickson and it has been snowing for 30 minutes now and everything is covered!! Here we go again....

 

[sunflowerenvy]

it start snowing here at 3:05 here i just look out my window and saw my mr roo was out of the pen. by the time went to the door it was snow and that roo did not want to go inside pen by the time he went side the ground was all white they said we are going to get 5 inch of snow by to night. my girl donot like to walk in the snow lol

 

[cpegram]

Well schools are closed here for tomorrow.....DH is still trying to make his way home from the clarksville area.....it's been 3 hours and he is still over an hour away on a normal day UGH.....

 

[HBuehler]

1newegg and all the rest of us on here..did your dh make it home last night?
Hey Jenski-how's that balmy white beach sand on that side of the County? We got about 2" last night when I went outside but it was still blowing in.

 

[cpegram]

he did...finally at around 9pm.....i work in smyrna but only work until 2 so i was home way before anything started.....the ride to work this morning....wow i had an ice skating rink until i hit the interstate!!!.....in Smyrna main roads ok side streets YUCK...icy....hoping people stay home makes less work for me with accidents!

 

[HBuehler]

We have to stay home..there is NO getting out around here.It was snowing here at 2pm but we are a lot further North and right on the river.

 

[cpegram]

Yeah that's what i heard my husband kept calling me yesterday while he was in clarksville saying is it snowing yet....LOL i kept saying nope not yet!!

 

[Jenski]

Whoa! How's that 1-2 inches working out for everybody??

Seriously though, it was nasty last night, and this morning it's a killing cold outside. 6 F here. Hope everyone got home safely last night, stayed warm, and suffered no critter losses!

My coops stayed above freezing inside last night. What a trick that was! I don't like to let my birds out unless it is over 20 (a baseline I got from speckledhen years ago), but this morning I waited until the sun came up to warm the plastic pen liners and let them out anyway. I stayed out with them and watched them awhile to make sure no one was overly uncomfortable . . . of course, a half hour before I did that, I chucked some 500W shop lamps in the pens, LOL! Don't know if that sort of light is good for their eyes, but they sure like laying down in front of the lamps and thawing when it's really cold! I can see my little roos warming up their combs and wattles, too - - they turn to get each side, and then walk away to munch some corn. The pens are still covered in plastic, so after awhile those shop lamps get things pretty comfortable.

(And just as a safety note, I would never leave lamps that hot with birds if I weren't very close by. . . never inside a coop . . . and never if it weren't this super cold. Those lamps are extremely hot!!)


Okla-DD, I was thinking of you keeping those hands and feet warm this morning! Hope you have some of those hunting hand warmers on today.

Holly, hope you and yours are staying warm, and that you haven't lost power again! I guess you know you aren't going anywhere any time soon, eh! Best put on a nice big pot of something and flip on the TV.

CityGirl . . . ahhhh . . . a nice big Tennessee welcome back this morning, isn't it! How's about that weather!! Did all your birds stay warm? Do you heat your coops?

sunflowerenvy, how did your birds do overnight? I'll bet they won't want to come outside today!

1newegg, did hubby get home safely last night?
SpringCreekFarm, how about you? The Dickson traffic map looked awful last night.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Morning frozen people! Yep it was 4 when I got up at 5
;30 to let our two Taco dogs out. They were real quick with their business this morning!lol
Glad to see that sun. It will at least warm things that can sit in it a little bit. Unfortunately my pigeon loft is in the shadfe of evergreens so it takes it forever to thaw out!
And now the starlings have descended! Ugh! They have driven the poor little song birds away from the feeders when they need it the most. I scare them away and they are back in minutes!