What's the temperature where you are???

[chrissynemetz]

37°F mostly cloudy
11:17.p.m.

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Jenbirdee]

Nope - This winter's mess has not been "real snow like we used to get" by any comparison! It's a solid sheet of glazed ice that, even two weeks later and after three days of sunny melting, is still four inches thick and virtually unbreakable. Nice, fluffy snow covering up this icy mess would be positively treacherous. This stuff is CRAZY. And DANGEROUS. And I'M DONE!

Yep, three weeks later still out there hacking away at icebergs you are right this was not normal snow .
The worst part is there’s nice fluffy snow underneath it so you take a few steps on the frozen surface(with ice cleats, of course)and then suddenly you come crashing through and break your knees
But yeah, yesterday was the first day I saw some melting yay

 

[muddy75]

32 with high of 57

 

[Jenbirdee]

-1C let the gang out a bit, but the wind is chilly. Yesterday was a better day for them outside, no wind and it was +1C.

But some of them did go out on Mount Poopmore

View attachment 4298520

Oh, I love your video. I just subscribed to your channel. What breed is Flopsy?

 

[sourland]

31F with a high of 43 predicted - got 1.5" of snow last night.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh, I love your video. I just subscribed to your channel. What breed is Flopsy?

She's an Azure Blue (Leghorn x Aracuna) they are blue egg layers bred from Hendrix Genetics - they supply the local Hatchery here with layers - unfortunately they are more a production breed than a BY hen. But they are funny friendly wee birds, I lost her sister Twister last Summer to crop stasis also - not sure if some reproductive cancer going on or what. Though with Flopsy she is also having some neurological signs - Mareks?

It frustrates me to heck that hatcheries here don't Vax for Mareks, It was one of the huge reasons I was happy when Peavey Mart brough chicks up from Hoovers Hatchers in the USA - all the chicks where vax for Mareks and Coccidiosis (FYI - I learned that you cannot feed chick starter with amprolium babies vaxed for coccidiosis - 4 of my chicks became sick with that). I have 23 chicks arriving here in mid April from another hatchery here in Ontario - again no vaxxing, which makes me very unhappy. But what can one do?

Anywhooo - Flopsy worries me with her crop issues and weight loss, poor wee chickie

 

[Ponypoor]

Nope - This winter's mess has not been "real snow like we used to get" by any comparison! It's a solid sheet of glazed ice that, even two weeks later and after three days of sunny melting, is still four inches thick and virtually unbreakable. Nice, fluffy snow covering up this icy mess would be positively treacherous. This stuff is CRAZY. And DANGEROUS. And I'M DONE!

I hear you - it's miserable walking anywhere with snow and when it ices over it's just evil and extremely dangerous! I have been throwing down old horse bedding on the walkways here so I don't take a flip; going out the back door of the barn its build up a slippery slope (should be flat!) and Truly my old Arab mare slipped yesterday morning going out - I threw down old bedding there, makes a good walking surface when frozen, but a miserable mucky mess when it melts.

This week will be mild here, but next week it's back to arctic freezing again - so tired of the cold. But this week I am taking advantage of the mild weather to let the chooks out and enjoy some outside time. Plan on skipping out early from work every day (shhhh don't tell the boss!), just so I can let the chooks out for a few hrs.

 

[Ponypoor]

South Central Ontario, Canada, 10:32hrs

14C (25F) and overcast, foggy (ice fog). Waiting for it to warm up a few more degrees then let the chooks out on Mount Poopmore again. After tomorrow looks like the weather will be a mixed bag of snow, freezing rain and rain.

Next week looks cold, especially overnight temps. This time of year it's the overnight temps that rule, the dark hrs are still more than the light hrs amount, and it can take all day to warm up to the daily high in most cases. Today's high of +2C likely won't be reached until 4pm. Once the daylight hours increase to more than the night time (dark) hrs then the big warm up will occur.

Of interest: it is now getting dark after 6pm which means that my chooks do not want to go to bed, I put them in the Hen House at 6pm but now they just want to fuss and carry on like naughty children. I want to yell at them 'GO TO BED!', It's the young hens for the most part, the older ladies and the Roos go to bed early - early bird gets the best roosting locations

 

[007Sean]

Monday: : 9:50am, 61°F, dew point 53°F, humidity 76%, wind E @ 5mph, clear, sunny! High today predicted to be near 80°F, high's next week, predicted to be in the 90's.