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We have a 17 month old Rhode Island Red hen that has lost much of her head feathers over the last three months. We also noticed her back and neck feathers appear to be wet when they are actually dry. There are three other hens in a 36 square foot coop the same age as this little girl and none of...

Sharon, we've been using the nipple watering method with an auto-fill system successfully for about six months. However, our weather has turned cold in the Pacific Northwest and we now turn off the water, disconnect the hose and use a heat lamp to keep the nipples from freezing. Still we only...

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Bobbi, our green grass is finally covered in snow with an ambient temperature of 30 degrees and wind chill factor of 13 we have blizzard like conditions outside. Our wonderful hen hydrator has proven its self to be only a fair-weather friend, so its back to the heated dog bowl for awhile.

Thank you for the heater and horizontal nipples information; that Aqueon heater in my hen hydrator will eliminate the need for a heat lamp.

Bobbi, I've given more thought to your comment "this year I have a cockerel with some pretty big wattles I'm a little concerned about." The hen hydrator I use to water my chickens works well in this part of the country mainly because we have so few days below 32 degrees. But in colder climates I...

Here is a link with more information about the automatic hen hydrator. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1140405/fully-automatic-hen-hydrator

I agree with you Bobbi, the chickens don't need a heat lamp they are well protected in the hen house at night without heat and our daytime temperatures in the Pacific Northwest are no where near as cold as yours are in Maine. If you look at the top of our coop in the picture above you can just...

Thanks for the information, I plan to purchase one of these heat lamps. https://www.premier1supplies.com/img/product/pdf/Heat%20Lamp%20Prima%20(Black)IT.pdf

We live in the Pacific Northwest of the United States where rain and wind are normal winter conditions with low temperatures on average of 35 to 45 degrees fahrenheit. This combination makes our winters cold, damp and down right nasty at times; so on the few days each month we have sunshine it's...

An automatic hen hydrator that incorporates the float valve assembly of the Little Giant Automatic Poultry Waterer inside the Little Giant Hen Hydrator to create a fully Automatic Hen Hydrator. The system was installed in our backyard chicken coop in July 2016 and works perfectly maintaining...

Here is our Rhode Island Red hen five days later with her comb healing just fine. We watched her interaction with the other chickens and noticed our larger Black Sex-Linked hen (the boss hen) did in fact frequently peck this hen who we call Big Red and her sister we call Little Red and both had...

This is one of two Rhode Island Red hens that we have with black spots on her comb and wattles. All the hens are 22-weeks old, raised by us on Purina Medicated Start & Grow since they were four days old and laying each day consistently for the last three weeks. We also have a Black Sex-linked...