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kevin.vinke

Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Posts: 1304
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 09 11:36 pm Post subject:
-15 have the heating on in the chicken hut..... seems a little strang ethat we heat the house with wood fires yet keep the chickens warm with an electric heater. Animal welfare before the planet?

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 1:40 am Post subject:
Proper (i.e. hockey) skates I notice there Slim A.

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 9:24 am Post subject:
Minus 2 this morning at 10am in the polytunnel. Lots of snow on the ground and work has been cancelled - yippee.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 9:38 am Post subject:
We've just been looking at the forecast for this area- doesn't look like we'll be using the tap this side of Christmas, with a nighttime low of -8 on Wednesday. Edit: Apparently it got down to -8 here overnight, but I was well tucked up under several blankets and a duvet. Last edited by Rob R on Sat Dec 19, 09 9:48 am; edited 1 time in total

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 9:43 am Post subject:
What do you do for water then, Rob?

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 9:53 am Post subject:
We have a free running tap at the new buildings- it's just a pain having to fill a freezing barrel and barrow it up here. The animals are on rainwater tanks in the yard and I break the ice on the pond for the ones out in the field. I've been waiting for a dry break to sort the pipes out (without scrabbling around in mud) so it's my fault really but don't let Nat hear me say that.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 9:57 am Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

but don't let Nat hear me say that.

Say what? Your secret is safe with us

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 12:52 pm Post subject:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

Proper (i.e. hockey) skates I notice there Slim

Just one of those things that's terribly difficult to do barefoot.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 12:55 pm Post subject:
It's snowing right down to the sea here. The weather forecast said in the South and East. You can't get very much further West from here.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 12:55 pm Post subject:
I'm reading Ice Station Zebra at the moment: keep thinking how cold it sounds and then I have to go outside...

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 12:59 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

Just one of those things that's terribly difficult to do barefoot.

Tis rather

I've not used my hockeys for yonks.
A.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 1:00 pm Post subject:
It's colder here today than yesterday. Despite the bright sunshine the snow is not melting at all. I've just given in and put the heating back on 'cos I'm frozen. I need some fingerless gloves...

Bodrighy

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 2157
Location: Near Devizes

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 1:38 pm Post subject:

kevin.vinke wrote:

-15 have the heating on in the chicken hut..... seems a little strang ethat we heat the house with wood fires yet keep the chickens warm with an electric heater. Animal welfare before the planet?

I would imagine that a wood fire in the coop might pose a few problems....mind you roast chicken is always welcome

pete

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 5:14 pm Post subject:
I was looking at the temperatures forecast earlier- looks like being another cold one on Wednesday night with Lincolnshire down to -9 Not looking like any opportunity to get above zero here though

suomi

Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 91
Location: Finland

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 09 5:16 am Post subject:

We have to keep our chickens warm too, we have a wood burning stove in the room beside them which we light once a day or twice a day when its reakky cold, like now minus 26

! the heat then moves into the chicken room via a hole in the wall, we use a fan to move it sometimes, chickens are then kept above freezing, and they are happy!

its starting to get warmer...should be only minus 21 today.
forcast for the rest of the week is arund minus 12 and lots more snow!
When you are all geaed up for the cold and lots of snow its no problem but I can really see how its difficult for you guys at the moment, but enjoy..

suomi

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