Recent content by Nevada Sun

Where are you in manitoba? I am just South of the City off 75hwy. It has been so cold that my coop it still -8,, trying to get it to 0,,, just worry about my heat lamps and Fire… thanks for the positive words.. Kristin

Thanks Rooster Rules,, and how true… so this heater please tell me more.. I was looking to an orek heater.. Spelling.. made here in winnipeg I think… what about the dust from the chickens.. I am so afraid of Fire, but it is so so cold now they need the heat I feel as the water is always freezing...

wow, I have never heard or seen these… I have the typical glass, red, with aluminum that surrounds it,, you just screw this bulb into the aluminum … it is just a normal plug in the wall.. hmmmm

Hi, I live in Manitoba just north of Minnesota , north Dakota border.. we get cold here… right now it is -27 C colder with the wind chill.. my coop is -10 / 14 F right now even with 2 heat lamps.. I have a coop that is about 16X12 with 5 bigger chickens 4 silkies the rest bantams… I now have a...

I live in Manitoba, just south of Winnipeg, which Manitoba borders North Dakota and Minnesota… so we do get cold here… I have Isa Browns and other bigger chickens but also many little bantams… right now it is -30C and lower of course with the wind chill… my coop it -10C this am…Some of the...

thanks, for the help.. we would like to get ducks but will have to really research what kind is best,, it of course if only for fun.. thanks again for you help.. also when I say fun ,, I do mean like a part of the family,, just not in the house...

my real question I guess is,,, what do they need... I heard water to swim in??? are they as messy as they say?? temps.. we freeze here are they easy like chickens

HI,, I live in Just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, can anyone tell me about Ducks and if they can live well in cold weather and what they need to do well... I have chickens but I hear ducks can be real messy,,

HI, so sorry to here about our big boy doing that with the chickens, my heeler Reno still is good but young and likes to herd them to much so we are always watching... sounds like you are getting things all right and things will work out... if you haven't found a home for the chickens you need...

Hi,, do you still have the little one,,, if so how is little one doing? Kristin

I really want to thank everyone on BYC, For sure the ones who replied to me!!! My Hen who went missing for weeks and just showed up recently is doing so well already,, she is slowly using her foot to stand on and I had a Large Animal Vet who is a Kinda a Friend who deals with all kinds of...

thank you so much I will read this and learn what to do for her.... Thanks again for your help... Yes, what a Lovely surprise.... when We came home in the afternoon we were driving up our driveway as we are on a hill I noticed her and her sister down on the otherside of the driveway,, well I...

I really don't think it is her foot as the other one kinda looks that way underneath,, she doesn't have any wounds but redness under wing and her rear end is dirty,, but she has been gone so long I thought for sure a Fox got her... this picture shows she holds it up, when she puts it down she...

HI,, I guess you are talking to me about the Orek heater,, I know they make them here in Winnipeg, Manitoba not sure where else,, but you know after reading last year about everything I used a heat lamp instead with a wire mess around the light holder ... just in case the light bulb fell out,, a...