Well, I'm happy to report that my gaggle of chicks survived the deep-freeze in their brooder that is in my unheated coop. I was ready to move them into the house, but every time I would sneak in to check, they were running the full brooder, happy as clams!
On the flip-side of that I let my surviving trio of free-ranging "egg layers" (a Pekin duck and a pair of lavender Orpingtons) move to the other half of my coop with my Silkies for the duration of the freeze so they could all stay warm, and they all BONDED, which is going to make separating them all back out into their breeding pens "fun"....
I have a handful of extra eggs that were accumulated by my broody hen (where the eggs went that I marked and gave her is a mystery) are hatching sporadically over this next week.
On the flip-side of that I let my surviving trio of free-ranging "egg layers" (a Pekin duck and a pair of lavender Orpingtons) move to the other half of my coop with my Silkies for the duration of the freeze so they could all stay warm, and they all BONDED, which is going to make separating them all back out into their breeding pens "fun"....
I have a handful of extra eggs that were accumulated by my broody hen (where the eggs went that I marked and gave her is a mystery) are hatching sporadically over this next week.
