Yikes! What A Week It Has Been!!

Yikes!  What a week it has been!  Beside turning 30 this week, some other fun stuff has been going on.  I'd like to take a look at the past week in photos...

This week my three chicks have gotten so big.  They are feathering out really well.  So far as I can tell we have one of one sex and two of the other sex.  I just don't know which ones are which.  Here are some of my favorite photos of them!

 
Zeus and Colby got haircuts this week.  Colby was the only one that I was able to get before and after photos for.  I know it's too cold to be giving them haircuts, but I just can't stand all of the hair around the house and they were getting cruddy anyway from romping around in the yard.  The funny thing about Colby is that he looks like a completely different dog after his haircut.  Zeus looks similar, but much younger when trimmed up.

A hairy Colby checking out the chicks a few days after they were born

All fluffy in the snow

Naked in the snow with his light that I attach to his collar so I don't lose him in the dark

After his haircut getting warm by the brooder light

This week more chicks are getting ready to hatch, if the embryos are still living.   We had a pretty bad snow and ice storm and it knocked our power out for about 12 hours.  The eggs cooled down a little but my husband was able to hook up an inverter that gave us a minimal amount of power to heat the incubator, turn the eggs, and also have a few lights on.  We melted water to use when we went to the bathroom and we had kerosene heaters.  We were okay!  The ice did bring some tree branches down and broke our front porch rail a little, which we will have to get fixed.  Here are some of the photos of the ice and snow which, although I hate this weather, it's still beautiful.

The holly tree is so beautiful when captured in ice

Beautiful ice

Although hazardous, the ice is so beautiful

Snow on top of the garage...I just love the weather vane

 

The chickens and ducks seem to be doing okay in this weather.  I have recently gotten them some heated dog bowls to keep their water from freezing, though I hadn't had them hooked up yet in these photos.  The ducks are silly though.  They'd rather be outside than be inside where the hay and straw can keep them warm.  They also will pick and dig at the frozen water in their kiddie pool in hopes that it will give water instead actually drinking out of the basin out water I put out for them.  Since getting the heated bowls, we removed the kiddie pool for the rest of the winter.  I'm hoping this will make them want to drink for the bowl more often.  Here are some fun photos from this week.

I had just put straw down for the ducks to keep them off of the snow a little more and the next day it snowed some more

One of the girls getting ready to lay her egg for the day

Some beautiful eggs all washed and ready to go

Hope you enjoyed my photos this week.  We are expecting 12 inches of snow tomorrow.  I hope the power stays on and so the rest of my eggs that are incubating don't die.  We shall see.  Stay warm and safe!