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Power is out here - has been for a little over 3 hours. I started the generator a few minutes ago. I have chicks and baby quail too.

Power came back on. Chicks were fine. The sun came out, back in, out again…. Enough solar heat that I turned heat lamps off. Power went...

Calm before the storm here. Beautiful day hitting 60 with sunshine. Storms come in around midnight

Here too.

Wind is wicked here. Jesus is Lord and Christ ✝️

Storm blew in the wee hours of this morning. Power is off. I called automated system to report it. Then I called and actually spoke to...

Chicks are doing fine in the coop. I turn off 3 heat lamps, then turn them back on around 5 or 6 PM. Supposed to rain tomorrow but...

Just fallowing along

CCX are most definitely not the sharpest tacks in the box. Jesus is Lord and Christ ✝️

perhaps a few gathered there and then a few more joined them to keep warm and didn't think it would get too cold at night? is it a...

We learn a lot from our failures, but you'll get it right. I've got an overcrowded brooder right now and I've taken to leaving the top...

I have a. Barometer hanging in the middle of the heat lamps. This morning temperature was right above 70. I woke up to a pile of dead...

Make a cardboard "surround" so that the heat stays in the area under the heat lamps... Not too high , but it will stop the cold from...

That’s where the I’m taking the temperature.

The temperature right at the bedding level is what matters.