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[SadieSue]

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So sorry to hear this Illia - I have been reading carefully the precautions all of you have been taking to keep your birds safe. Losing power can be devastating on so many levels, beyond our own comfort. I've checked on our ONE blackstar girl who lives at a friends house a few miles from here and all 6 of the flock, including our one, are doing well. I'm considering baking one of flock blocks to take over to them. With this nasty weather I think they could use a little extra attention and treat.

 

[RedRoosterFarm]

Gosh its cold! I just buttoned up the coopes and pulled a few stray birds in the coop. I lost around 10 chicks last night and a few polish might have frozen feet. Everyone in inside now. We have our 20x40 pen and another 12x12 coop and a few 4x4 coops and the wood sheds and horse sheds full of birds. My husband hates me because I have birds in every space around here even the horse trailer. I had to water 5 times today because the water freezing. I just pulled in 24 water containers so they wont be froze in the AM. My poor polish would try to go out and fly over the snow. Little did they know its everywhere and they would drop and sink in it. I was pulling birds from the snow all day. We have 16 inches and its a pain. I have the generators hooked up so when our power goes out. I wish every one a safe, warm and dry night with power!

 

[Illia]

btw, Pips@peeps - I am SO sorry to hear of your loss, I don't know why I didn't even see that part. Especially it being buff. Maybe I'm biased, but Buffs are really special.

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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

pips&peeps :

If you decide to do hatching at a larger scale it is wise to get a generator or a battery back up. I have both. My incubator and hatcher are both hardwired into a UPS and when that dies, I have a generator.

Sorry about loosing your chicks and eggs Illia.

This is what happened to me today:

All my outside birds made it through the night. I just got in from moving the ones in that I could. I have two special breeding quads outside and about 30-40 growing cockerels. Took hours to get them fed and watered this morning.

After I got everyone in that I could I went back inside my big building to check on everyone in there and my pet buff cockerel was dead. I think he broke his neck sparing with a couple of the cockerels I threw inside......

I cried my eyes out! He would follow me up and down the aisle as I fed and watered every morning and night. He was even getting bold enough to chase my kitty away from his cat food bowl. I'll miss him.

On a good note, I did ship some chicks to Puyallup last night and they showed up today a little after noon in great shape. I put two of the long term hot packs in there and sent seven extra chicks. The guy made out like a bandit because of the extras and the hot packs cost about $8 each. I was more concerned about their safety though.

I usually don't ship chicks this late in the year, but I had a rerunning auction on bidbird and they guy bid on them.... but everything worked out.​

UPS? United Postal Service?

Sorry, it is the cold medicine talking.

but actually I don't know what UPS, other than that, means.​

 

[Illia]

Now that I thought of it again, am I the ONLY one here with less than 7 inches of snow?

I read a lot of things saying even Port Angeles got 10 inches (crazy talk I tell you) . . . But all we have is a measly 2 inches frozen to the ground.

 

[RedRoosterFarm]

trade you 16 for your 2...lol
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[Illia]

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lol, I've said it before -

If we had 16, every single roof would cave in, we'd lose a lot of trees, the power, and of course noone and nothing would take a step outside. Even if their doorway wasn't walled in. Gosh, that ONE year we had 9 inches, our trees were sagged at 45 degrees, the roofs were creaking and cracking. . . It was bad. We're not meant out here for snow at all.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I am not sure where Eatonville is....but these photos are sure pretty. Even prettier, cuz they are not here...Just kidding....we don't have this much snow...just cold. But the photos are pretty.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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You guys (the coast) got hit good...Spokane got hit good....here in Omak, maybe an inch or two, but then there are drifts 2-4 inches deep. That is all I got. Heather (Rare Feathers) may have more though, she is higher (quite a bit than me) in Elevation.

 

[Illia]

You mean Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound coast people. . .

My whole point was that I didn't get hit so hard. Most likely because I'm 4 miles away from the Pacific Ocean itself, not the tamed down Strait or Sound.