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Power has been off all day with 15°f temps. Talk about scary. We have plenty of family in the area but I don’t want to just abandon ship.

Fixed the chicken coop to get them out of the wind. Ran the fireplace all day to keep some heat in the house. Ended up only getting down to 58° so it wasn’t too bad. All in all, we need to be better prepared for the cold. We are 100% electric so a backup generator would be ideal. Maybe some batteries for the solar system will help as well. Although times like this suck, it’s a good test o see how truly prepared we actually are.

#prep #grownostr #cold

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pebble (b/acc) 1y ago

When/if you manage to get one running, blow a fan at the fireplace for draft effect and more heat output.

Jacob (Organix Farms) 1y ago

Fire has definitely been going strong all day. That’s the only thing keeping the sanity. I know at the end of the day fire will keep us warm, cook us food, and clean our water.

AU9913 1y ago

I'm very sorry to hear that man. This lifestyle is definitely tougher than normal, but hardship makes us tougher. I don't think my chicken setup works for this cold, I'm hopeful everyone will survive but it still give me massive anxiety that I have a weeks worth of subzero (F) temps to deal with. Solidarity my friend.

Jacob (Organix Farms) 1y ago

I’m in a similar boat. I read chickens will do okay down to -20 as long as they are dry and out of the wind. This is a learning process though. I never had any family to teach me this lifestyle so it’s all trial and error. Hope your hens make it fine. Lucky our power is back on. We’ll see how long it lasts.

AU9913 1y ago

I WISH family taught me any of this shit. It seems like most people around here have no advise about this weather besides put them in a barn. Which to me is also unacceptable. My coop is ghetto as fuck, but I only have 10 birds becuase I'm prototyping a coop build that a child can move. They're coop is open to the south, but next year I'll be on the third iteration of this coop and I know I will keep it light enough but also get the draftyness, less for the wind and more for the driving snow.

Stacking Functions 1y ago

What I’m realizing in this cold spell is that there are always more preps to be made (they never end lol). Just make a list and work on them as time/resources allow.

I’m sure your chickens will be ok as long as they’re out of the wind and have space to huddle up together

Jacob (Organix Farms) 1y ago

Yeah that’s exactly right.

Freebird 1y ago

I man, that sounds tough! ❄️ Hope you manage to keep your family and the chucks 🐓 warm 🔥

Jacob (Organix Farms) 1y ago

Thanks Free. We’re making do. Came back on through the night and back off today with temps approaching 0° now. Just glad I had some wood reserve for the fireplace.