The mercury is on the rise.
Even though it is still below freezing, compared to a couple of days ago...
it feels like a heat wave!!
Everyone is enjoying the sun.
O'Malley and her son, Donald, were basking beneath the hay feeder...
It's always good to have a snack bar where you are sunbathing!
The chickens are out for a snack... a tray of kitchen scraps.
And Sammy is enjoying a chicken poop snack...
frozen poopcicles.
Last winter I modified the doors to our chicken coops...
so that there was just a tiny door at the bottom for the chickens.
This, paired with a heat lamp keeps the chicken houses toasty warm.
As for the new waterers...I'm sold!
The chickens had no difficulty switching over to this style,
and the water stays crystal clean.
Down at the duck pond, the ducks were also basking in the sun.
The sunlight put a smile on Jill's face...
but then, Jill always has a smile on her face thanks to her underbite!
While all of the other animals were out enjoying the afternoon,
the pigs were.....
sound asleep beneath their heat lamp!
Sammy went in to awaken them...
And shortly thereafter, Ginger followed him out the door...
with MaryAnn on her heels.
I was filling their water bucket, so MaryAnn came over...
asking for a drink.
She'd be quite happy if we'd install a water fountain for her!
Mmmmm, mmmmm...good to the last drop!
It doesn't take much to make these girls happy!
As for the weather (because we just cannot get enough talk about the weather!)
...it is supposed to continue with a warming trend.
40's this weekend.
Wahoooo!
Goodbye January...not sad to see you go.
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| (Chicken Florentine soup's on the stove, chewy Italian rolls 'r in the oven.) |
PS: I don't thank you enough for your wonderful comments.
Every day it feels like old friends stop for a visit.
I truly look forward to our chats!
Comments
The chicken waterers look great. I will have to see if I can find something like that over here. I am always worried the water will run out during the hot weather.
Kathy from Tasmania
P.S I would love to swap houses for a week or two! What fun that would be!
Peter
Your knitting looks great, hope you get to enjoy more of it in front of that nice fire this weekend. :-)
As for the waterers....two suggestions. The ones that I got were online...look up "cheery chicken waterers"....but I think they are a little pricey. After examining them, I realized that I could make them for a whole heck of a lot less. You can actually buy the little valves online....and they are not easy to put into the bottom of the bucket....drilling a couple holes. The heater is something you can get online for animal water buckets...it doesn't get hot...just keeps the water from freezing.
Or, you can buy small heated water buckets...but the chickens like to poop in them, so it makes for a bit of work keeping them clean.
Hugs to you, friend!
Warmed up here too. I even got to take my morning walk outside again. : ) It got all the way up to 34!!!