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[SussexInSeattle]

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Sure, soon as you PM your phone number, I'll be ready! LOL

 

[UrbanChickenMama]

We've got food, we've got firewood. I doubt it would get that bad in Vancouver though.... it is pretty white out there and still snowing. The kids are beside themselves.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

 

[kristenm1975]

Hello from Whidbey Island! It snowed all day Thursday but I had luckily had the sense to call in to work that I wasn't coming. I work in Seattle and just couldn't imagine being out on the highway that long.

It looks like we got about 4- 5 inches all told. Beautiful!!! I could do without the girl's water freezing almost as fast as I can change it, but otherwise am enjoying this rare white wonderland outside.

I have bird netting over my run to keep the girls from escaping and being eaten by any of the many predators we have here (coyotes, raccoons, hawks, eagles, dogs...) and the first snow caved it in. I got out right away the next morning and cleared the snow off so I could tie it all back together again. My little Sebright made the most of the hole and flew out while I was fixing it, but once she landed, she just sat there in the snow. It was up to her neck and I don't think she knew quite what to do. She didn't protest at all when I came and picked her up and put her back inside. Funny girl.

I'm so glad I fixed the netting! I came home early yesterday and found a BIG hawk perched on the top rail of their run, trying to find a hole so he could swoop in and carry off one of my girls.

I know they need to eat too, but sheesh, there's a million rats tunneling in and out of that run. I do wish they'd help me out and eat THEM instead of trying to get my chickens!

Here's the snowy run and coop:

 

[chookchick]

Okay I'm trying to post a photo again. This is yesterday, looking down drive from the house. Note coon hole in tree to left. Super secret coop is just to left of photo. Note icicles off of roof! Chooks had a good time yesterday in the sun, but now it is snowing AGAIN! Too weird for us in the PNW!

WOOHOO I succeeded in posting a photo!

 

[JennsPeeps]

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"I'm freee....!!! Oh NO... lemme back in lemme back in lemme back in lemme baaaack..."

 

[JennsPeeps]

13 free chickens in Roy on craigslist: http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/grd/966221205.html

 

[Fowl-Language]

OK - me, the cats & the chickens are officially tired of the snow!! The chickens won't step outside the coop and the cats are holding me personally responsible for the weather. At least I'm getting paid snow days from work!!

 

[UrbanChickenMama]

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I went out and shoveled snow and then raked the straw around a bit and the girls came out a little... two of my chickens tried to come out and looked like Bambi on ice because of the 1/2in coat of frozen rain on everything.

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We threw our cat outside a bit ago and you would have thought we were killing him by the look on his face.

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LUCKY!I wish I was! I miss working for the University!

 

[Selena]

If you saw a guy riding around Port Orchard today on a quad with snow tires.... that was my DH. If you saw 2 people, that was the one time I ran an errand with him. We went to get some groceries, etc. Then he went out again to get some stuff to continue to work on the bathroom and... a Christmas tree! He towed it behind the quad. The tree guy thought he was crazy.

Hey, we had better traction than all y'all! LOL

 

[herbandteas]

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Dang I missed that! Tell him you want to go to freddys tonight to see me hehehe at work at 5 pm