What's the temperature where you are???

[chrissynemetz]

14°F mostly clear
11:48 p.m.

 

[thecatumbrella]

13°F
It's warming up!

 

[007Sean]

Monday: : 7:30am, 18°F, wind chill, feels like 4°F, dew point 15°F, humidity 80%, wind N @10mph, clear, sun coming up! Predicted to have a high of 39°F today!

 

[muddy75]

11 with high of 13……extreme cold warning

 

[EmmaDonovan]

50° and sunny with 56% humidity at 9:30 A.M. High today of 68°. Chicken delights will be cucumber, rice, and backyard greens.

Early morning hike. There's water in the creek!

 

[5Australorpasaures]

50° and sunny with 56% humidity at 9:30 A.M. High today of 68°. Chicken delights will be cucumber, rice, and backyard greens.

Early morning hike. There's water in the creek!

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You just can't help yourself. Use some salt to rub it in. Twenty-four F and something about wind chill. Just peeled an inch and a quarter of frozen sleet off DW's car.

 

[SkyAJK]

Can you set up a mister or give them a shallow pan of water (with ice) to stand in? I've used ice water in a hog feeding pan when our temps got to the high 90's (like your 35-37C.) I only had to dip one hen to show them and they used it for a solid week. I took it out when the temps dropped. It might be worth a try.

I have a few buckets of water with ice in them. Their green leafly also cold from the refrigerator. I hosed them down a few times when some of them closed eyes, wings out. They were better after the hosing down.

They drank so much water that they all poop liquid and those flies are crazy. I spray oregano oil at near their vents, that is to prevent those flies....grrrr

According to the weather report, those extreme heat is over today. Let see how that goes.

 

[SkyAJK]

I take it the humidity is high there also...? Do you use fans at all?

I have a number of fans that run all the time when it's hot and humid, if it's not the freezing cold miserable winter weather, it's a hot and humid summer that taxes the poor birds.
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Currently it's -15C (5F) still, and it's started to snow more heavily now, they are still calling for up to 20cm of snow but I don't thing that will happen unless it really ramps up here.

The wind is from the east and the fine snow is filtering into the barn door at that end of the barn, I made the mistake of not wearing my heavy duty winter boots, after a few hrs I had to come back to the house to thaw my feet - heading back out in a bit to bring the horses in and put the chooks to bed. Tonight everyone is going into the main Hen House, it's just way too cold for Mr P and his harem of silkies to be out in the other area.

Barn temp is running around -6C and they are starting to show signs of cold stress, I threw down a bunch of straw to get them moving and that was a huge success. Still at least another month of this miserable weather to get through, poor chooks.

I do have the fans on all the times. Yesterday it was so hot that I drank so much water, this is very bad, I started to feel dizzy. By the evening my tummy is feeling like a big pot of water, there was no room to eat. I am so glad that the heat is less extreme today. Still hot.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I do have the fans on all the times. Yesterday it was so hot that I drank so much water, this is very bad, I started to feel dizzy. By the evening my tummy is feeling like a big pot of water, there was no room to eat. I am so glad that the heat is less extreme today. Still hot.

I know that feeling, it's awful. You feel like a big, waddling water balloon! Glad the heat is a little less today.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

You just can't help yourself. Use some salt to rub it in. Twenty-four F and something about wind chill. Just peeled an inch and a quarter of frozen sleet off DW's car.

I didn't know you could peel sleet, wow. Peeled sleet. Spleet?

You guys can rub it in in eight weeks when we're dying of the heat. It was 94°/34C in March last year. It's coming up fast!