How Cold is it?

[DonnaBudgie]

It's about -12F (-24C) here is Maine in the US! It's very unusual for us to get this cold. The temperature in my house where my budgies are is running from 64F to 70F (18 to 21C) and they're fine, but my heating bill isn't!

How cold is it where you live, and are your birds okay? What are you doing to keep them warn?

 

[texsize]

Right now 3:30 am it’s 24 degrees F.
Yesterday it took till 9:00 am for the outside temp to get above freezing.

The west coast isn’t affected so much by this polar vortex but it’s still colder than I like.

I keep the inside temp set around 65-68 degrees F.
I have tried to prepare for loss of electricity and have battery/solar backup but using electricity to heat doesn’t work. I can use the batteries to run my HVAC so long as we have natural gas.
If I loose both gas and electric I have a Mr buddy big buddy propane heater as a last resort.

Plus most of my birds have a bird heater in the cage and they don’t use much power.