The Old Folks Home

[Nomadicus]

15° for 3 nights in a row didn't phase our RIR or Delaware girls last year. Those were all we had then. Several more breeds on site now and they should be ok with that if it happens again. Normally we don't go below 30 that often. Then again the ice age might return.

 

[Debbie292d]

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Old Folks it is dry the sun is out!

 

[sourland]

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Or shoulders and hands.

 

[getaclue]

We looked at them long and hard as they sure are nice, but we needed just a tish more heat for our coop to keep it from freezing so I think we measured we'd need 4 of them. We opted for a NewAir oil filled one that on almost the lowest setting will keep the coop to about 40F. They could care less though as they were out in 25F this morning. When it gets -25F, they'll care!

For the record, they are not suppose to put out heat in any conventional method. They don't heat up, and won't warm a coop at all, which is what makes them safe. It's amazing the way they work. They cause the animal to put out the heat, and feel warm. To test them, you hold your arm about a foot, or so under them. You'll feel your arm quickly warming up, all cozy, and nice. They use them for livestock nurseries too.

 

[Sequel]

Morning Old Folks it is dry the sun is out!

It is dry here too but we’re fogged in!

 

[getaclue]

I got all the cookies done, and they're drying now. I'm taking the rest of the day off. Tomorrow I will begin getting the house thoroughly cleaned for the holidays. That takes me a couple days, because I'm no longer a spring chicken, and can't do it like when I was young.

 

[Sally PB]

It's just the two of us, and Freya and the chickens. No need to clean in any special way. Yay.

It's going to be Thanksgiving dinner II for Christmas. Hopefully, this turkey has a neck in with the giblets! The last one didn't. I use the neck to make broth for the gravy.

No gifts, other than the home made goodies, and a small could-have-been birthday present for one person, and a funny retirement T-shirt for another.

"I'm retired.
You're not.
Have fun going to work tomorrow."

 

[Nomadicus]

The only problem with retirement that we have found is that we seem to be working harder now.

 

[Debbie292d]

For the record, they are not suppose to put out heat in any conventional method. They don't heat up, and won't warm a coop at all, which is what makes them safe. It's amazing the way they work. They cause the animal to put out the heat, and feel warm. To test them, you hold your arm about a foot, or so under them. You'll feel your arm quickly warming up, all cozy, and nice. They use them for livestock nurseries too.

I thought they worked on the same principle the cozy coop does, thus why we thought if we could cover the ceiling with them, in our insulated coop, it could work but too expensive and impractical for it. We were probably silly to even consider it to begin with but we really like them.

One of our cozy coops is in a hutch in a temp pen currently for 2-month-old silkies as it gets in the 20sF at night. Hubby put a Govee in there 8" from it and we could see it keeping the hutch about 10-15 degrees warmer than the outside temp. Granted, when they're cold, they just lean right up to it and it would be way warmer for them.

Attaching a photo of the "hutch" in case it's confusing. It's a few inches wider than the cozy coop is.