Virginia

[riane'smimi]

Silkies are not as sensitive as you think . They do fine in the winter and do not need extra heat . They do need shelter and shouldn't get soaking wet in the winter.

 

[finnfur]

Minor rant: feel free to skip to the end…

The building complex where I work is an industrial park for about 5000 people. This morning we all received notice that the parking lots would not be open until 10am and no one was supposed to come to work until then. I know they want to plow the parking lots but having all 5000 people arrive at the same time is idiotic. There is only one way in so traffic backs up at that light a ridiculous amount and this morning someone spun out on the hill in and took that one way in down to one lane. Traffic was backed up for a mile in all directions.

What they need to do is have a set order in which they plow the parking lots for the different buildings and stagger the arrival times based on that order.

If this was the first time they’d had this happen I could see it, but this happens every time. This time, though, I heard that the county police have gotten involved and demanded that a solution be figured out. The backup doesn’t just affect the employees here. It shuts down the one road into town from the north.

thanks for listening, now I feel better, getting that off my chest.

I'm glad you got that out and feel better. I have no dog in the fight so to say but I would think it has something to do with the plow guy has no idea how long it will take because he doesn't know if he's cleaning up 1" or 10" till it happens . Just my thoughts.Maybe the businesses should get together and stagger.

 

[pysankigirl]

The problem is that they told everyone that they had to be in "at 10" .....but you are right, there are variables.

They let us out early at the request of the county police, who agreed to manually direct traffic so we could get out onto the main road faster (bypassing the light, that only lets a couple cars out at a time) so that we would not be clogging homebound traffic.

evidently there were no fewer than 7 (hopefully minor) accidents this morning caused by the congestion from our industrial park. People getting rear-ended and the like. The county police were pretty ticked off.

Sense of humor failure all-around, evidently.

 

[Maggiesdad]

We laid low today... pretty chilly out there. The pollitos didna like it today.

 

[ki4got]

The pollitos didna like it today.

they're not the only ones!

 

[finnfur]

When I let the two Cocks out in the AM # 2 Cock Ernie flys out of the coop when I open the top door to check the water. This morning he come flying out and hit that 2" of snow and did a deadpan in place. Did not move a muscle for 5 minutes. Never saw snow before LOL - about 10 minutes later he hopped back over to the clear ramp and stood on it until his partner Bert came out . They are funny.

 

[Cknldy]

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Silkies are not as sensitive as you think . They do fine in the winter and do not need extra heat . They do need shelter and shouldn't get soaking wet in the winter.

I have some sandard size hatchery silkies that are as resilient as all of the other breeds. Con didn't get wet- no ice on his feet nor water/ice anywhere in the coop, he just didn't cover them is my guess. Guess I should have noted he was about 6 weeks old and still really small (about the size of the sebrights that are 6 weeks older) but fully feathered. I believe any chicken can handle the natural environment when prepared properly and fully agree with you on that point. Maybe 'fashion' chickens just aren't for me? Lol

 

[ki4got]

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sorry, but IMO 6 weeks old is still too young to go outside without supplemental heat. even a LF bird that has more size to it. most of mine are at least 8 weeks, bantams usually older. it's not just if they're fully feathered, but total body mass as well.

 

[cubalaya]

8 weeks is usually good but not in single digit weather like this

 

[Cknldy]

Outdoor brooder, adjust chicks to temps as they feather out and ALL of the other breeds of chicks have always done great. They are healthy hardy chicks. Eh, everyone is different so that's what makes BYC a great site