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[VelvettFog]

 

[KMHunter]

Hi Dave!

 

[FirewifeJess]

Hi

Dave! It's been forever, where ya been?! We miss all your good advice here

 

[FirewifeJess]

Whew! Busy week and I finally get a chance to sit down for a while and check in. How's everyone!? We've had quite a busy week and this week is no different. Tuesday night we stayed overnight at the Salish lodge and MIL watched the kids. Then I got a broody and read every last book on my shelf that had even the tiniest section on having a broody hen, and finally decided to order chickies for her instead of eggs.

This morning my hair dresser was able to squeeze me in for an emergency appointment since I'm going to LA for a single night with DH on Thursday. Last night I borrowed a little bitty dress from my sister and I'm trying on more of them at a friends' house tonight, to choose just the right one for our night away. We'll fly down, have drinks and dinner at a restaurant the company rented out, free night at nice hotel, brunch with a friend, then we'll fly home Friday. What a whirlwind trip but I'm so excited! I'll try to get some pics in all the excitement and post them when we get home.

I'm SO worried about my chickens while we're gone though. We don't have a heated waterer and unless I leave the run door open the whole time we're gone and give them free rein of the yard and creek (also leaving them completely vulnerable to a predator overnight), then they won't have liquid water the entire 2nd day we're gone. That's NOT OK. Don't know what to do but I really think I'm gonna have to leave the run open for them all.

You can use your brooder lamp and put a 75w bulb in it and hang/hook it just above the waterer. That is what I did for one of my waterers while we are here in Hawaii. But like Imp said, it is supposed to warm up tomorrow.

That is a great idea! If Thursday night looks to be in the low 30s ill do that! I already have the lamp set up in the run for if my broody doesn't take her chicks in a couple weeks.

Whew! Busy week and I finally get a chance to sit down for a while and check in. How's everyone!? We've had quite a busy week and this week is no different. Tuesday night we stayed overnight at the Salish lodge and MIL watched the kids. Then I got a broody and read every last book on my shelf that had even the tiniest section on having a broody hen, and finally decided to order chickies for her instead of eggs.

This morning my hair dresser was able to squeeze me in for an emergency appointment since I'm going to LA for a single night with DH on Thursday. Last night I borrowed a little bitty dress from my sister and I'm trying on more of them at a friends' house tonight, to choose just the right one for our night away. We'll fly down, have drinks and dinner at a restaurant the company rented out, free night at nice hotel, brunch with a friend, then we'll fly home Friday. What a whirlwind trip but I'm so excited! I'll try to get some pics in all the excitement and post them when we get home.

I'm SO worried about my chickens while we're gone though. We don't have a heated waterer and unless I leave the run door open the whole time we're gone and give them free rein of the yard and creek (also leaving them completely vulnerable to a predator overnight), then they won't have liquid water the entire 2nd day we're gone. That's NOT OK. Don't know what to do but I really think I'm gonna have to leave the run open for them all.

I have an extra three gallon heated waterer if ya want to borrow it , I know Woodinville is a long way from Pacific. if ya want to come up this way I''ll buy you and DH coffee at Starbucks.

That is so generous, thank you for the offer! If I thought there was a way to get up there before we needed to leave tomorrow at 9am I'd definitely come visit and take you up on it! Maybe another time?

 

[nini2033a]

came home yesterday afternoon, and the little one that the others had been ostracizing on was dead. Man, it really got to me. I was in a major funk all last night. I wish I knew if there was something wrong with her besides being a runt and being picked on.... There was nothing obviously wrong though...

 

[CarolynF]

You can use your brooder lamp and put a 75w bulb in it and hang/hook it just above the waterer. That is what I did for one of my waterers while we are here in Hawaii. But like Imp said, it is supposed to warm up tomorrow.

That reminded me.... my friend has a metal waterer and the canopy on the brooder lamp is metal, too, so it gets warm when the light is on. He hangs the light so the canopy touches the waterer. The warmth from the metal canopy is enough to keep the water thawed.

 

[VelvettFog]

So yesterday, out of the blue, DW says, "When is the 2013 coop-a-thon?"

So -- who needs stuff built?

 

[CarolynF]

So yesterday, out of the blue, DW says, "When is the 2013 coop-a-thon?"

So -- who needs stuff built?

Wow... you are amazing!!!

 

[Nikki99]

Am I really the only one with a very smelly chicken problem?? You guys are always full of ideas for every issue and question... please help a fellow BYCer out!!

 

[Nikki99]

So yesterday, out of the blue, DW says, "When is the 2013 coop-a-thon?"

So -- who needs stuff built?

Hmm, I dunno, I'm thinkin about a separate little house for our ducks... what's your going rate?