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The weather around here was so cold up until yesterday that over a dozen eggs froze in the brooding bays, most of them cracked, and one was crushed but didn’t ooze because it was frozen. (The crushed one was probably cracked and then a hen stepped on it.) There’s a 250W heat light in the coop but there’s only so much that can be done when the outside temperature is -10F. And anyway, I have it directed to shine up so that the roosting rail, where the birds prefer to sleep, is warmest.
For next winter I’ll see about heating the coop from below. The main body has a metal tray for easy cleaning. I can stick an engine block heater to it and see whether that makes the tray too hot for the birds or if it distributes heat more-or-less evenly over 8 sq ft. That’s something to experiment with over the summer, though. I won’t mess with it when the birds need the heated coop.
In the meantime, I’ll just gather eggs several times a day rather than once when I’m closing up the coop for the night. Cracked eggs are edible but they a PITA to deal with, to make sure they don’t ooze all over everything once they thaw.
Bottom line: Stupid weather. So much for global warming.
One of my good friends was in NY, called me when it was below zero. I told him I was outside in a T shirt, which was true. It did however eventually drop here as cold as it has been in a long time, my thermometer read 11 one morning.
There are a variety of reasons to leave NY, cold as hell all winter being reason #1 🙂 (it was 72 here yesterday, near 70 today)