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That’s backsliding!

I have the thermometer under the heat lamps.

@CrealCritter that gave me a good laugh!

Nope. Still can’t get the temperature up high enough at night.

Coffee is ready. Another sunny day! Sure need it to dry up all the mud and the fields. Too wet to do much.

I turned on heat lamps yesterday. By afternoon it was 95 degrees. A little too hot, I’ll check temperature this morning. If 85, out they go!

You ought to open the back door after going to town. :lol:

All that work and where are the chicks????? In the house. A little crowded, but they have feed, water, are warm and alive. Freeze is gone. Hopefully I can maintain temperature in the still empty coop and they can go outside. I am an idiot.

February 17. 2 days to pick up day. I had to water proof, wind proof, temperature proof the coop. A cold front was sweeping the nation. I wrapped the coop on one huge tarp. I hung heat lamps.

Wow, last time I kept a CCX journal was 2020. A lot of changes since then. I have orders for 50 chickens, dressed out of course. So I ordered 75 chicks, went and picked them up Wednesday, February 19. I built a new coop, bigger, for that many. They gave me 5 extra, total 80 chicks. I will...

Going to be sunny today! Hope it dries out some of this mud and slop. Congratulations on the puppy @Country homesteader she is a cutie.

Just finished my coffee. It’s a fog white out. Got 1 1/2” of rain, sheep lots are poop soup. At least this winter, due to the loads of dirt I shoveled into their shelters, no poop soup inside the shelters. Still waiting on 2 ewes to lamb, then will be done. Need to sort out Ewenique and her 2...

Rain yesterday and last night, more today. But no freezing 🥶 temperatures!

Maybe not the end of the world, but higher prices sure hurt. Especially for other people who don’t have the resources that we do.

I raised quail a long time ago. There weren’t all the colors then, male/female were easy to tell apart. Lots of eggs! I broke them into a measuring cup. I think it was 1/4 cup quail eggs to 1 chicken egg. They were great fried, a yolk in every bite. Plus pickled quail eggs, so yummy. I haven’t...

Wound up with 26 pullets. Plus the 80 chicks I already have. It’s going to be a chicken festival around here. LOL On second cup of coffee, made 3 this morning. Was awake at 4:30, chickens on the brain. Low of only 32 high today of 48!!!!!! I’m so tired of freezing weather. Not set up here for...

A friend has one that I can use.

I’m tired yall. It was sleeting when I left Wednesday. 175 miles and it sleeted all the way, and halfway back. I got home at 4:00 and it was so cold, highest I could get it in the coop with 4 heat lamps was 60 degrees. I dragged a big black livestock water tub in the house and rigged it up for...

You can’t fix stupid.

@Mini Horses i hope you don’t lose power. I live out in the butt end of nowhere and power outages are common. I have a gas stove, oven won’t work because of electrical ignition, but I can light burners with a match. Plus I have a propane heater that I use to augment the electric heat. It sure...