The Old Folks Home

[sourland]

Good morning, OF.

Welcome back. Has it been a week already? Hope you had a good time.

Two old folks in Disney World - we had a blast. Picked up what appears to be a minor sort of respiratory 'bug'. I guess it's to be expected when you go out into the world.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good morning old folks. l would like to go back to bed and just rest today. I have to man the grill though as the party must go on. We are celebrating our babies big #50. Yesterday was her birthday.

 

[microchick]

Good morning old folks. l would like to go back to bed and just rest today. I have to man the grill though as the party must go on. We are celebrating our babies big #50. Yesterday was her birthday.

Congratulations to your baby!

There is an old joke that goes: You know you are getting old when your children start to look middle aged.

Morning old folk.

Woke up to -17° this morning. 12 inches of snow on the ground and wind chill at -32. Pretty fricking miserable no matter what angle you look at it from.

Boiled potatoes for the birds, took the water and a cooler half full of hot water along with the potatoes out to them. I swear I had on so many layers of clothes that I felt like the Pillsbury Dough Girl. Had read a story about people climbing Everest and as I was marching my way up the hill into a headwind towards the coop laden down with everything from a cooler full of hot water, to buckets of feed (not to mention boiled potatoes) I couldn't help but wonder....have I reached the summit yet? Looked over to my right and saw that I hadn't even made it past the barn yet....

God I do hate this weather. Thank Him though that the birds are all hanging in there. I had rigged a heat lamp for them, hung from a chain and cable tied and wired down to within an inch of it's life and covered every window and door with plastic. The coop is like a sieve on a good day. Really need a new coop so ventilation is never a problem there but keeping the draft off the birds is a challenge.

Temp is supposed to slowly come up on Wednesday but we are looking at this next week to be just plain old miserable. How are y'all doing?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hey

 

[Sally PB]

Hi!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hi!

How are you!?

 

[Sally PB]

I'm staying warm inside, after shoveling the path to the coop and most of the parking pad of our driveway. Hubby plowed the part of our road that the county doesn't. This is the third day in a row he's plowed.

Very windy, and we got about 6" of powdery, easy to drift in the wind snow. Our road is probably drifted shut, but we're not going anywhere anyway.

A couple of the pullets have come out of the coop when I go in to get eggs. The wind is covering all of the ground in the run with a dusting of snow, it's swirling around so much.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Old Folks we are in deep freeze here too.
all well here birds got so board they are starting to walk in the snow.

 

[Debbie292d]

Congratulations to your baby!

There is an old joke that goes: You know you are getting old when your children start to look middle aged.

Morning old folk.

Woke up to -17° this morning. 12 inches of snow on the ground and wind chill at -32. Pretty fricking miserable no matter what angle you look at it from.

Boiled potatoes for the birds, took the water and a cooler half full of hot water along with the potatoes out to them. I swear I had on so many layers of clothes that I felt like the Pillsbury Dough Girl. Had read a story about people climbing Everest and as I was marching my way up the hill into a headwind towards the coop laden down with everything from a cooler full of hot water, to buckets of feed (not to mention boiled potatoes) I couldn't help but wonder....have I reached the summit yet? Looked over to my right and saw that I hadn't even made it past the barn yet....

God I do hate this weather. Thank Him though that the birds are all hanging in there. I had rigged a heat lamp for them, hung from a chain and cable tied and wired down to within an inch of it's life and covered every window and door with plastic. The coop is like a sieve on a good day. Really need a new coop so ventilation is never a problem there but keeping the draft off the birds is a challenge.

Temp is supposed to slowly come up on Wednesday but we are looking at this next week to be just plain old miserable. How are y'all doing?

Sounds close to what we've got going. The warnings are all over now at least but it's not warming up until a week from this Tuesday by the looks of it.

Hubby and I are taking turns running a gallon jug of hot water out to the temp coop every 2 hours to set beside their ferment/mash/dish of water to keep it thawed. They have a heated nipple waterer and feeder outside of the hutch, but they can't come out of there in these temps. It's 6 with a low of -2 and they're 11-week-old silkies. They are plastered to the cozy coop radiant heater in there. Hubby's contemplating hanging a heat lamp outside of the hutch so they could at least come out a bit.

 

[Debbie292d]

Sounds close to what we've got going. The warnings are all over now at least but it's not warming up until a week from this Tuesday by the looks of it.

Hubby and I are taking turns running a gallon jug of hot water out to the temp coop every 2 hours to set beside their ferment/mash/dish of water to keep it thawed. They have a heated nipple waterer and feeder outside of the hutch, but they can't come out of there in these temps. It's 6 with a low of -2 and they're 11-week-old silkies. They are plastered to the cozy coop radiant heater in there. Hubby's contemplating hanging a heat lamp outside of the hutch so they could at least come out a bit.

Two hours of contemplating. He's now building a "porch" for a heat lamp to hang from. Intentions are to put this porch over the paver steps up to the hutch, and hang the lamp from the underside of it over the steps which will warm them so they can come out, see their water, and go get a drink there. Then I can stop putting little dishes of water in their hutch.

This probably would have been a lot easier had I just brought them in and put them in the brooder for a week.