The great freeze that lasted over a week earlier in December has now gone. The great thaw produced little in the way of flooding as we suffered from frost rather than snow. The picture above is the last one I took before the that set in. The duck pond had about 5 cm of ice on the top of it. I appreciate lots of readers would laugh at 5cm, especially if they live in the continental USA or Canada but for us here in the North East of England are not used to bitterly cold weather.
When the pond thawed, the water level was much lower than we expected. I suspect we have sprung a leak. The pond itself is out of action at the moment as it is not in any of our runs. For the time being, all poultry in England has to be caged or in netted runs to slow the spread of avia flu. It will be a while before that ends.
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