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No- Not in the country. It takes something very unusual to kill the local birds in noticeable number. In the city of Minneapolis, while I was doing property management years back: My heating and plumbing contractor came to do some work during an unusual cold snap similar to the one we're...

I'm not a physicist, but my dad was- It would maybe help people dealing with keeping there chickens from freezing to understand how heat is lost? Cooling occurs by 3 mechanisms: 1: Radiation Object emits energy as infra red, becomes cooler. Anything warmer than it's environment does this-...

The pop door and the windows are all on the South side. Our winds are usually from the North and West here. The North, West and East walls were air tight, with the exception of whatever air might leak around the East facing double doors when they are closed- So there was no cross coop...

We started with chickens this Spring, in East central MN (by Pine City). The temperature has varied between +104 in summer and -30 F in winter in my experience over 5 years on this site. Our coop was somewhat over engineered, perhaps... We re-built an ugly, (cheap) used 10'x10' shed into a...