redsunset Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Thank you! Some chooks used to sleep on it in the summer but it's in my bit of garden now. They still have a knackered old steamer lounger in their garden to perch on! Wind has picked up and more snow showers so glad I got those errant (unusual behaviour ) chooks to bed? Joys of winter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Getting a blast of your weather down here tomorrow Redsunset - storm force ten tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Stay safe. I know down south is not used to force 10 or winds that we get. Saw forecast with 50-60 for us with gusts of 75 possible. Didn't bat an eye after 113 of last week! Only thing I can say is secure any loose stuff outside, esp the chook houses, WIRs etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Have added an extra bungee to hold down the shower curtain covering the run extension - hopefully that'll do it. The garden is reasonably well sheltered from a southerly so hopefully they'll be ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Hope the bungee cord worked for the shower curtain over the WIR Mullethunter? Another awful night up here, with very strong gusts but should be over by morning. Have a candle lit just incase. Poor chooks! A speckledy is moulting badly and looks like a moth eaten old feather duster, bless her so hope she is in the middle of the huddle tonight. No idea if any wee chooks in the tree as to many loose slates to chance looking. My wee sis gave me hell for being out checking the chooks last Thursday at 1.30 am when storm at its peak. Some slates were wedged in the ground guillotine style so yes I was stupid! Not doing that again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Very windy here last night too. Didn't get to sleep until almost 4am when the wind had stopped so a bit tired today. Lovely pic of the snow and lots of little footprints in it too. Hope your weather improves soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Hope your wee chooks were tucked up well luvackicken? I bet they were indoors for the night? That was me last Thursday, awake till 4am, never heard a storm like it and I'm deaf! Blew a loft hatch down indoors and a clock of my bedroom mantelpiece with the vibration (my walls are 2and a half FT thick as well!) How the four doodles clung on in the lower tree I have no idea! Amazed my new chook shed stayed up as lots of damage up here. Roll on spring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Redsunset those slates sound lethal. Definitely don't go out in that weather - we don't want to have to rehome 40 tree living chooks! Yes the bungee did the trick thanks and my 4 seem to be pretty oblivious to the bad weather! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 promise I won't! I'd be to worried no one would look after them or fuss over them in the manner I'd want so will stay indoors, and alive to continue in the manner they are used to Glad the bungee worked! Have put a puppy pad down for the dogs as they are not allowed out either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 There jus no way my dogs would use a puppy pad. They would just not understand. Mullethunter I thought you had misspelled forty three Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Mullethunter I thought you had misspelled forty three Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 My two will use a puppy pad no problem in inclement weather. Out of choice they would all winter but they love being outside too! No chance tonight! As for the forty three.....I need to do a head count, rem I lost two after Christmas so actually have no idea how many I have.......say forty one? Cough...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 AND just realised you lot are better of keeping a tally of how many chickens I have than I am!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Sorry, 40 chooks that live in trees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 All calm here again, tho saw some chooks roosting on the old steamer lounge chair while it was snowing! If we still have the snow tomorrow will take pics as they look lovely in the snow. They have come to expect my big soup pan full off cooked veg and hot mash now so have made a rod for my own back. No hot pan.....and just pellets and they go off muttering like there is no tomorrow.... To make luvackicken happy there was only four eggs today instead of the usual 9-12 so they don't like this stormy cold weather either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 Nice sunny day at last. Couple of pics of the chooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 That's such a gorgeous bunch of chickens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Lovely photo's - the snow makes everything look lovely and clean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 I know! It's raining now so by tomorrow will be back to the proverbial mud. The chooks looked so pretty against the snow today. Bought a roll of felt today so hopefully get the new shed recovered next week. Noticed the straw inside getting damp and don't want mr brahma on damp straw. Think his walking is a little better, his appetite certainly is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 So lovely! I noticed over the fence you seem to have neighbours close by, do they ever object to the hens? And out of interest how much noise do they make. I get stressed out when my girls have a rare cluck, I don't know why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mars Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 the snow makes everything look lovely and clean God bless the snow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixieDust Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Gorgeous flock. Snow looks cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Gavclojak you are correct in that I have neighbours close by. No one has complained about the hens at all and there has been a new house built in the field behind me and they have hens too. I did ask the people who were renting the house that's very close to my fence if the cockerels bothered them and if so to let me know, they said they didn't mind them at all and when I clocked a couple of chicken ornaments in their kitchen windowsill I knew I was fine! New renters are there now and they've not said anything either. While only being a couple of miles outside the town, this is still classed as country as sheep, cows and a few horses are in surrounding fields. Hopefully it will stay like that despite a lot of new buils in the 20 yrs I've been in this area. Get a LOT of egg announcements in the spring/summer not to mention the cock a doodle dos! I have to boys among last yrs hatch but so far not a peep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Love those photos in the snow So many chickens and so nice that they can just wander around. Hope the mud is not too bad for you today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 No mud yet as ground is totally frozen! Just been outside to see who was in the willows. Saw the speckledy who resembles a moth eaten duster due to moulting badly, caught her and she escaped amid much screeching her displeasure. Can't find her now, think she is behind a phorminum (spikey New Zealand flax thing) so will look later. Had a look in shed and Mr brahma is roosting all on his todd. No girls in with him, no loyalty here! Samson the big SLW has taken over so he has been abandoned apart from his sister who pops in through the day to help scoff his food. Really thought the moulting chook would have chosen to be in the huddle in a coop but seems on observation other chooks chase away moulting chooks and due to pain of incoming pin feathers they give them a wide bearth. Hope she will be ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
