First, the chickens just turned 7 months old! I have some not very pretty pictures for you to see! Mostly because its been pretty cold for a little while now and -20° the last few days. Holy Cow!!! I am not suited for this kind of cold! But we are surviving, not to worry. Today, however, it warmed up to 3° today! It kind of felt nice, which is funny because that's still really cold. I was just happy that the air wasn't trying to eat my face. And the fun part is, we had a pretty good ice storm a couple of weeks ago then it snowed quite a bit, so there was all sorts of snow hanging out on top of the ice, so when the snow melts (or blows back in the driveway because of the wind) you can see the awful layer of ice underneath it. We also had a nice warm day one day when it got into the late 30s and everything started melting so there were puddles in the driveway. Then, of course, it got really cold again so the puddles froze. Now our driveway has a really nice giant layer of ice. I hope all that makes sense. The good news though, this weekend its supposed to get up to 35° to 39°! It'll be a heat wave, so nice! And the following week so far should be in the late 20s. Not too shabby.
Well, 9 out of 9 eggs that I picked up yesterday from the chickens were frozen and cracked in half. Because I didn't want to eat them, I boiled them along with a bunch of yolks from last weekend. They got quite the pile of stuff today! The two muffin things were an experiment that didn't work out. But they eat them, so I'll feed it to them rather than throw it away. :)
Here is the thermometer showing that it is 0° outside. Holy Cow! Just terrible, but it rose to 0, it was about -20 this morning...
When I went to see the chickens and give them the delicious pile of eggs I looked out into the field and saw some turkeys! There were 6, you can't see them very clearly, but its pretty cool that they are in our backyard.
ANNDD....Here are the chickens! The first fresh air and daylight that they have seen in weeks. Poor babies.
Here is after I gave them the eggs! They were in love!
Here is Basil's and his comb...after the frostbite and the fights, here is what we have. There aren't the traditional ripples since they disappeared, but it still looks pretty good.
Here is Parker and his comb. Man, he's a good lookin' chicken...look at the blue in his feathers on his chest. Gosh. His comb is also smoothing out, but still has some remnants and seems dirty too.
Also, one of my red sex link hens is getting a black comb...Hopefully it heals or something...
My poor baby chickens...They will be super excited when it starts warming up! I'm super excited to let them out again and not worry about their little faces freezing off!
xoxo
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