Brrrrr......
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chrismahon
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Well the freezing weather forecast here tomorrow will see us doing the same Dinosaw (-4C). As you know we have a lot of drinkers and intend just to top them up with hot water before letting the birds out. Blankets on the bantam coop roofs will save us bringing them in as we set the tolerance limit for them at -4C, based on experience. We were in tee shirts on Friday with a daytime temp of 22C and night of 12C which is very unusual for end of November here.
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Apparently it was -5 here last night, was only forecast to be -2. We are just a few miles away from where it hit -17 back in 2010 so lets hope we don't have a bad winter. Have emptied all the drinkers tonight and the water containers are inside of a tool storage box so hopefully won't freeze, nothing we can really do about the Alpacas trough other than put a couple of tennis balls in it. It is a fair walk up from the house so it isn't like we can just pour a kettle of hot water into things like we used to at our old place. 22C is warm for this time of year, it has been hovering between 14-16C around here so it has felt really cold today, was about 1 degree at 10am.
My girls are back on their teatime warm mash, and very grateful for it. I'm amazed at how much they can pack away, an hour before roosting!
chrismahon
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As my earlier post we have switched to plastic plant pot bases and only have two deep rimmed bell drinkers for the bantams, because of the length of the cock's wattles. Going round them all with warm water in a watering can took just 10 minutes. It was -4C again this morning and they had started to freeze again by the time the chickens were all let out!
