The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

That would be tomorrow after it drops back down to -14°F tonight. Currently -2°F with lots of sun running the house and feeding the grid.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Old Folks up at 8 took Pugsly back to be altered ..
Put a muzzle on the monster so she could take him back ..
May be ready to come home early..

 

[lovesfarms]

Trust me @pennyJo1960 1960. Staff makes mistakes. They aren't perfect. I once wrote one date on a patient's appt. card and a different one in the appointment book. Patient and I had a good laugh over it. I told her my dyslexia was kicking in late in life.

Surprise! I went out to check the birds and screw a heat lamp into their clamp on light fixture for a couple hours and the boys were under mamma heating pad toasting their bones. Just got to get them through tonight. I'll probably leave it plugged in and turned on overnight so they can get under it in the morning first thing. I'm not so worried about them overnight. They will be on the roost bars cuddled together. But hopefully they will remember the heating pad in the morining.

I rigged it by putting it in a plastic bag, taping and rubber banding it to an old cork bulletin board and then hung it under their shelf where I knew they would eventually find it because that is where the bantams hang out during the day.

What we won't do for our little ones!

 

[lovesfarms]

Currently -2°F with lots of sun running the house and feeding the grid.

I assume you've got heated water? Do you have to use any heat for your chickens? I thought it's cold here in the teens and single digits. Water usually freezes for me when the outside temp goes under 20° so I slipped a styrofoam box inside a cardboard box and put a large bowl of water inside the styrofoam so it didn't freeze today. As long as the chickens can't get at the styrofoam it works.

 

[CapricornFarm]

This is what i use.

 

[CSolis]

I'm thinking about bringing in Tiny Dancer tomorrow.. It's supposed to get down in the low 20's here. Don't want him freezing his tiny butt off.

 

[lovesfarms]

This is what i use.
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Can you explain?

 

[lovesfarms]

I'm thinking about bringing in Tiny Dancer tomorrow.. It's supposed to get down in the low 20's here. Don't want him freezing his tiny butt off.

I'm glad we didn't have this cold in December, at least the chickens are well feathered. I'm also glad when the sun does shine because the run is a little green house

 

[Alaskan]

I assume you've got heated water? Do you have to use any heat for your chickens? I thought it's cold here in the teens and single digits. Water usually freezes for me when the outside temp goes under 20° so I slipped a styrofoam box inside a cardboard box and put a large bowl of water inside the styrofoam so it didn't freeze today. As long as the chickens can't get at the styrofoam it works.

We just pop out the ice cube, and pour in fresh water.

I don't use a heater unless it freezes too solid for them to drink in about an hour.

But sometimes we just bring out water 3x a day, instead of using a heater.

It is solid ice most mornings.

But... if you put the water in a "good" spot, so zero wind and a little solar gain, and remove the ice cube in the morning, fill it with liquid water, it usually is fine for most of the day, even at low outside temps.

We find if the temps are sitting in the negatives, and especially if there is cloud cover/no sun, then we have to bring out water twice or 3 times a day or use a heater.

But... above zero, even sitting in the single digits... it usually stays liquid for hours.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Can you explain?

Water warmers.