The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

On an extremely positive note, the chicks produced from the other Buff rooster over the iBTR pullet are all yellow legged. No green legged birds from him, thank God. I have one more batch of eggs due to hatch on the 9th, then I will turn the incubator off for a bit, giving me time to clear out the brooders and allow the weather to get warmer.

 

[BlueBaby]

A couple of mine have now started to lay, but I will wait until the egg's get a little bigger before I do any hatching from them.

 

[Iluveggers]

Yesterday we were negative 10 in the morning, with a -23 windchill. I felt bad but kept the chickens locked in the tarped run. Today at least it was exactly 0 when I went to feed them. I threw some hay outside the tarped run door and left it open. Almost no wind, and I’m sure it felt a lot warmer this morning. This week high is around 20s. Next weekend it is dipping into the negatives again, with a high of 8 on Sat. I HATE these temps, especially when they come after 3 feet of snow (it doesn’t melt).

Hopefully this is the worst of it. I would kill for a 35 degree daytime temp.

 

[BlueBaby]

Yesterday we were negative 10 in the morning, with a -23 windchill. I felt bad but kept the chickens locked in the tarped run. Today at least it was exactly 0 when I went to feed them. I threw some hay outside the tarped run door and left it open. Almost no wind, and I’m sure it felt a lot warmer this morning. This week high is around 20s. Next weekend it is dipping into the negatives again, with a high of 8 on Sat. I HATE these temps, especially when they come after 3 feet of snow (it doesn’t melt).

Hopefully this is the worst of it. I would kill for a 35 degree daytime temp.

It's 75 over here right now.

 

[The Moonshiner]

It's 75 over here right now.

 

[BlueBaby]

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I'd rather have it at 75F, then in the summer at 116F or more.