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[justbugged]

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And I always wondered for years and years just exactly what does the Jolly Green Giant do in his 'off' season (winter) when he is not out growing green beans ???
And now we know...he drives a snow plow

Different Kidlit. Jolly Green Giants are IT guys in charge of the Dutch language porthole of a major Seattle based online game company. But I am sure that the costume would fit the other kid. I heard the The Boy come home. I think he wanted to talk about his night plowing the Ledge, and the Free Fall Freeway, but the Mom was sleeping, and it's always better to let sleeping Moms sleep.

PS I have spare kitties if you need one or two.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Maybe they do do that in Poland, like it is instinctive to hide from the windchill !
Maybe not so stupid as we thought ?

We had a rooster wander onto our prperty from who knows where last Jan when it was in the 10s and 20s...this bird could barely crow, he was young, and stayed in a tree near my hen coops.
He was fine, I fed him and put water out and eventually befriended him.
He was not allowed in but got close enough for us to get a good look at him.
He was a mutt, and never had any frostbite !
He had a very high standard comb and not a speck of frostbite !
He eventually wandered down the road elsewhere, we could hear his squeeky crow further down the road.

LOL My last few that did that did not survive. In fact, I had to dump warm water on their carcasses to rip them off the ground (they were frozen solid like rocks) and stiff as a board!

 

[DIYSeattle]

I feed mine corn because I tihnk it is the carbs that they need to burn to make internal heat. Corn is mostly carbs, with a little protein. It is my understandign that as long as they are out of th wind, snow, and have something underneath them like straw or something to cut or block the wind they will be fine. The rabbits the same way. Maybe once it gets super cold it may be different. Im in Seattle so we get down to only the teens plus whatever the windchill is. My ark is set up to use the top of it so at least in theory they dont ahve a lot of head space to heat up with their body heat. I dont put a light on as Im afraid ti would eventually catch fire. They dont really want to come out in teh coldest parts but they are fine. Maybe 20 below or exposed to teh elements they wouldnt fare so well. Then again neither would I. If i had to be out in it Id want to be bloacked from the wind and in a small place that would retain bodyheat.

The youngest chicks are in the basement as they arent fully feathered yet and I think its too cold for them to go out right now.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Love my Subaru, have had one forever. But when it comes to slush they are awful. Becareful, the slush will grab you and pitch you across the road (had this done to me)....other than that...I think Subarus are one of the dependable cars around for snow and bad weather.

 

[justbugged]

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I don't know yet...I have to go out & check on my geese & ducks....it's supposed to be even colder tonight so they're staying in the horse trailer until we leave tomorrow.

WHAT!?! colder tonight.

My birdies are gonna freezer their little feathered buns off. Crummy sake. I hate being cold. I think I will become a snow bird and move south for the winter. I am not waiting until I retire....

I am so with you. I keep thinking of that lovely village in the mountains of Ecuador where it is 82 degrees year round.


I am so glad that Heather and company survived the meltdown in the kitchen. I am also tickled that it was her DH's fault. Us girls need to stick together you know.

 

[justbugged]

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Your trees should be fine next spring. Most of the fruit trees should handle this weather. Also because the branches are still long, they will have room to be trimmed up come February.

 

[justbugged]

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I love meatloaf in a cast iron dutch oven. http://rusticbynature.com/?p=121

Okay guys you are making me hungry now. At least I made stuffed bell peppers for dinner tonight. I made them last night, and now all I have to do is pop them into the oven for about 25 minutes. I even made a salad to go with it. I love it when I know for sure what we are having for dinner. Last night I barbecued a marinated flank steak. There wasn't any left overs. of course at some point I will need to think about dinner tomorrow night. This having a husband home every night can be a real pain sometimes.

 

[Zgoatlady]

Chickielady,
They look really nice. Big birds, I guess they should be from what they came from. Let me know about the color of the eggs cant wait to hear.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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WHAT!?! colder tonight.

My birdies are gonna freezer their little feathered buns off. Crummy sake. I hate being cold. I think I will become a snow bird and move south for the winter. I am not waiting until I retire....

I am so with you. I keep thinking of that lovely village in the mountains of Ecuador where it is 82 degrees year round.


I am so glad that Heather and company survived the meltdown in the kitchen. I am also tickled that it was her DH's fault. Us girls need to stick together you know.

 

[Illia]

Hello everyone.

So, this morning was a BAD morning.

As it turns out, the temps dropped to 20, and the winds picked up to about 15 mph. That isn't terrible, no, what's terrible is that the power went out from 11 PM til 9AM in the morning.

And guess what that means?!! I lost an ENTIRE incubator filled with eggs because the temp went down to 55 degrees in the bator, the general temperature throughout the house sunk to about 30-40 degrees, and of course I lost two chicks in the freezing cold (both Ameraucanas) and a lot of others were very close to dying - They were extremely thin, puffed up, and didn't move much at all but to make a very loud series of peeping. So, I was very rushed through the morning. Oh, and on TOP of that, guess what?!! ALL of our pipes froze up because the darn PUD couldn't botehr to fix the power through those loong hours it was out overnight, so even when the power was back on, NO WATER. And all the water outside was frozen solid. . . So of course not even the animals had a drink of water.

SOOO. . . . Luckily we had a neighbor with a torch to go melt all the water in the pipes running from the pumphouse to the outside of it, which took well over 2 hours to do. Sigh.

We've got a lot of frozen and freezing chickens, some unhappy goats, a cold house now finally heated by our wood stove, and we just barely got water going again.

I'm REALLY hoping this is the LAST time the PUD ends up being so incredibly lazy. . . I lost a LOT of incubating eggs, and some of those were on day 15.


Just had to rant.

Hopefully it went well for everyone else.