Friday, February 1, 2013

Poor winter chickens




Chickens if anyone remembers ,... I posted earlier about beginning to raise chickens due to the strong request from our granddaughter. -
Last summer, she enjoyed taking care and collecting eggs, but alas fall arrived. Maddy must Return home to school. The chicken farm fell to our care.
Which i must say, we have been enjoying those delicious fresh eggs for breakfast.
But the last few days have been the coldest sub zero temperatures in 2 years! Iowa has been having great weather but now it lays with snow and COLD.
We have been turning on the heat lamps and turned the heater on the water.
Sadly, last night the heat lamp burned out! How those chickens must of done some cuddling. They were all alive, but un able to give eggs. Mr rooster had some frostbite on his comb. Guess he did not cuddle with the girls!
We have replaced the lamp for tonight. I found this picture on Pinterest by Lisa Stockebrand, today. It got me thinking, I Bet Mr. Rooster wished he had that hat last night!

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

I like the hat it is cute!

Susan Elliott said...

I bet Mr. Rooster would have snuggled if the girls had let him. That's probably because, in the past, he wasn't "snuggling" at all!!

Maybe you don't have to finish your needlebook this week. Maybe you could make progress on it. Sounds less daunting.

Happy Monday!