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[Bawkbok]

Good morning, cafe, coffee is hot.
Many of you are struggling with the cold this morning. Hope all is well.
We received rain all night from 6 PM to 7 AM. The run is soaked as the driving wind at 20 mph got it nice and wet. Girls look cold this am all huddled and necks retracted. Tarped out the north side last night and bottom of the west side this morning. The wind is relentless. With everything soaked, it makes for a raw day. Not fit for man nor chicken.

 

[DobieLover]

I can't remember what kind of waterer you have, and not sure if they can get at any snow, but wattle dippage is the likely reason.

~-3 here, my supplemental light just went out. I noticed it was dimmer yesterday, thought it was just the cold, but probably need a new bulb.

It's a heated base fount water up on a chimney block about chest high but he's tall.
I think he's dipping too. There isn't much of anything I can do for him. Just monitor for infection. I may bring him in to clean the blood off his feathers.

 

[aart]

I think he's dipping too.

Even with HN's, tho they do drip a bit, most of mine got mildly frostbit wattles from noshing on the snow banks. SMH.
Had a cockbird many years ago get horribly swollen wattles, scared the hell out of me. He was mighty uncomfortable for several days before the swelling went down, he lost part of one wattle.

Up to ~4 above. Slowly climbing all day(YAYYY!!).
First time in days I haven't had to shovel my way out to the coop.
Still too damn cold for me to start clearing the run.
More snow coming late today and tonight...who knows how much<sigh>. 10 day shows lots of sunshine and temps much closer to freezing.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning and thanks for the hot coffee!
The wind has stopped for now and the county is in here clearing some of it off of the roads. The one by my truck (big 3500) is up to the door handle. I managed to get MORF to his appt and get back home yesterday with a bit of Rally Car fun through the drifts. The doc is dropping him off of the steroids rather rapidly as he is not handling them well. Very dizzy and unstable and he actually fell in the treatment room on a tech, so he had a soft landing(LOL), but still, I think they got what I was saying...
I am supposed to get my landline worked on today. I had to call the tech! You would think, if you were a logical being, that moving a power pole a few feet over just might screw up a tele line and that they should follow behind the crews to repair such tele line, but no such luck...
So the adventure continues! Have a wonderful safe warm and or dry day, Cafe!

 

[aart]

The one by my truck (big 3500) is up to the door handle. I managed to get MORF to his appt and get back home yesterday with a bit of Rally Car fun through the drifts.

You drove in snow that deep?!

 

[Mtn Margie]

The ones on the road had been hacked down by other drivers and the plow had come through, but with winds like that, you don't want to be caught out. My truck drift is a product of zero attention through the breeze duration.
Perversely or encouragingly, I heard a Robin when I was out clearing the drift off the path to the car. The drifts out there are so compacted, they are walkable. When my boys were little, we would make igloos out of blocks of drift when this happened.
I now have a landline and the tech was very nice. He said that the power co does not contact them when a pole is replaced, it is up to the customer to "call" a repair in.

 

[SkyAJK]

Good Morning All,
Making my coffee now.
My Pekin hen is sitting down, head tucks under her wing and sleep. It is hot over here, so I don't know what is wrong with her. I think I will give them all Electrolyte to drink today, the heat really got to them. Even I need electrolyte drink. Too hot, drinking too much water make me feel dizzy.
Have a wonderful day all.

 

[aart]

Wind finally died down so I got out to check mail and shovel a path all the way down the run to clear roof where snow stuck and built up, luckily only on rafters. Went well until wind kicked back up just as a knocked a big pile off roof and it blew right into my face which was about the same time my fingertips started hurting. Done with that!

Gathered 5 eggs. Hopefully the tonights lake effect system stays north and I can clear run enough in the morning for the chooks to get out of the coop for the first time in days. Might even be warm enough to clean poop boards.

Can winter be over now?

 

[Sally PB]

Can winter be over now?

I wish, for your and hubby's sake, we could have had some of your snow. I bet we haven't had over 15" total this season.