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[hotrodflash]

RE water: There is an artesian well below my house that has been tweaked for filling containers(large metal pipe in the ground with a cement pad and a spigot for easy filling). It runs constantly even when we had a really bad drought for several years. It runs into a creek and there is also many springs and another artesian well that very few people in the area know it exists. Also lots of ponds and lakes in this area. I know most people think Texas is a desert but east Texas has lots of lakes, ponds streams and rivers.

 

[Beekissed]

So, everyone is pretty satisfied with the measures they have in place for their flocks and other stock in the case of sudden and severe weather?

 

[stonykill]

So, everyone is pretty satisfied with the measures they have in place for their flocks and other stock in the case of sudden and severe weather?

just like everything else in life, I'll do whatever needs to be done. Typical of my life, it will get figured out and be fine

 

[Pullet Surprise]

So, everyone is pretty satisfied with the measures they have in place for their flocks and other stock in the case of sudden and severe weather?

There's a difference between what I know I should have and what I have, but working toward it. Then there are the things I have NOT thought about because I haven't had chickens through a year's cycle yet and those things that I just haven't thought of...that is why i would love to hear what others think and have experienced to see what I have missed.

 

[delisha]

I am never 100% confident I always feel I am missing something.

In the house:
I have flashlights, batteries, wood, lighters and lighter fluid,candles, paper, books,10 gallons of water, shovels in the basement(in case we are snowed in), can goods, Portable cages, cell phones charged at all times, neighbors phone numbers, 2- 5 gallon buckets
4 wheel drive vehicle, trailor. Tarps, zip ties, duct tape, two tool boxes, cordless drill (lithium battery)1 Tote full of emergency blankets and cloths.

In the coop:

Wood by the coop, lighter and fluid in the coop, wood stove in the coop. Containers of water (now frozen). I have never turned on the wood stove in the coop. It is there in case the house wood stove does not work and we need water or heat.
Enough feed for 1 month

 

[delisha]

I am never 100% confident I always feel I am missing something.

In the house:
I have flashlights, batteries, wood, lighters and lighter fluid,candles, paper, books,10 gallons of water, shovels in the basement(in case we are snowed in), can goods, Portable cages, cell phones charged at all times, neighbors phone numbers, 2- 5 gallon buckets
4 wheel drive vehicle, trailor. Tarps, zip ties, duct tape, two tool boxes, cordless drill (lithium battery)1 Tote full of emergency blankets and cloths.

In the coop:

Wood by the coop, lighter and fluid in the coop, wood stove in the coop. Containers of water (now frozen). I have never turned on the wood stove in the coop. It is there in case the house wood stove does not work and we need water or heat.
Enough feed for 1 month

Forgot to add first aid kit

 

[cpchicks]

Thank you for this...........it brought tears to my eyes.

 

[stonykill]

there isn't any way to prepare for everything. Example. 1987, October 4th. None of the weather guessers and none of their equipment saw the 24 inches of snow coming. I get up at 6:30ish. No power. Phone rings....old fashioned corded phone. Boss tells me not to come in (duh!) . We had 30 turkeys 3 weeks from slaughter outside in a coop and run under some pine tree's. No door on their coop, it was actually just an old truck cap. Old fashioned fence under around and over the coo/run. I look out and there are pine branches and heavy wet snow collapsing the run. My 19 year old idiocy told me to go out and take care of it. Yeah, I gave up quick as I heard branches above me snapping. I figured worst case we would have to kill them that day if a tree fell on them. But my 6 month old daughter needed her dad.
No power for 2 weeks. Yet the turkeys got water (from the previously mentioned stream) until slaughter day just before Halloween. It's called simple country living. Adapt, create, go with it, whatever you want to call it.

 

[Melabella]

So everyone can water their stock in the event of an extended big freeze or extreme and prolonged drought?

Stream runs through the woods 500ft from the barn... at least I'll have arm muscles again!

 

[Pullet Surprise]

there isn't any way to prepare for everything. Example. 1987, October 4th. None of the weather guessers and none of their equipment saw the 24 inches of snow coming. I get up at 6:30ish. No power. Phone rings....old fashioned corded phone. Boss tells me not to come in (duh!) . We had 30 turkeys 3 weeks from slaughter outside in a coop and run under some pine tree's. No door on their coop, it was actually just an old truck cap. Old fashioned fence under around and over the coo/run. I look out and there are pine branches and heavy wet snow collapsing the run. My 19 year old idiocy told me to go out and take care of it. Yeah, I gave up quick as I heard branches above me snapping. I figured worst case we would have to kill them that day if a tree fell on them. But my 6 month old daughter needed her dad.
No power for 2 weeks. Yet the turkeys got water (from the previously mentioned stream) until slaughter day just before Halloween. It's called simple country living. Adapt, create, go with it, whatever you want to call it.

In my younger days that is exactly how wew did it...could weather just about anything and enjoy it actually. Now that I am pushing mid 60's, the spirit is willing but the flesh ain't what it used to be...like to take that into consideration now