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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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 Posted - Dec 09 2009 : 10:34:21 AM
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If you start bringing in your animals during this early winter, they will start blowing their winter coats and you will not be able to put them back out. You are better of putting straw bales around the coops, sheds, etc for more insulation, more/deeper bedding for them, tack up tarps on outside walls, especially on prevaling wind sides. Put sweat shirts on goats, slather vasaline on exposed combs, waddles and legs of your chickens. Be very careful with heating sources due to fire danger. If you keep everything closed up , the animals themselves will huddle and their body heat will help keep all warm enough. Its supposed to be along cold winter for most of us, and winter is not even here yet.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Dec 09 2009 : 12:27:21 PM
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Oh Teresa! Thank goodness I don't have all the animals you referred to; I'd have them all in my house! Nice information to pass along!
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Dec 09 2009 : 1:23:51 PM
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Oh Teresa, did you have to mention it's not even winter yet? It sure has felt like it here but really, it is still fall. I don't want cold weather. I think I'd like to move to Hawaii now. But thatnks for all the good tips.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - Dec 10 2009 : 08:09:44 AM
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| goodmorning, i went to check the chicken coop yesterday and the warmest place is the chicken coop. the hens keep it toasty in there. i told papa thats where the goats should be is in with the hens. even with their hole to go in and out it was plenty warm in the coop. i do have a radiant heater in with the goats. the baby pigmy goat is a month old and she shakes without a heater. i agree with mama wolf. i have the temp down low, i do not want them to shed their winter hair. the baby annie mae comes running to me when i go in. so very cute. well gotta get dressed and go out. the clothes i wear to do chores weigh a ton and take forever to get on. they take a lot of energy to take off too lol sherrye |
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