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Are you sure the yellow is frostbite? Make sure it's not a wound with pus. I'd rinse/ wash it indoors, check for anything poking into the comb like a thorn, etc and make sure it isn't a puncture wound. Triple antibiotic ointment has petroleum jelly in it so after washing I'd put some on it just...

Chickens had more sense than the dog today. I heard gunshots and ran to make sure my dog hadn't gotten loose. She was sitting on the porch in front of the door with ice on her fur and iced ear tips! Crazy girl wouldn't go in her house when it was snow then rain then sleet. Took a dog comb to her...

It's a quick fix for now, not grand or glorious but they're thankful. 3 hens and roo in the 4'×4' chick grow out pen. Hey, i wrangled that thing in the door and even though it isn't near as much room as their coop and run at least they won't battle the wind. My 2 bg mix hens in the 4'×2' dog...

Had a frozen and split egg in the box this morning. Rest of the week is killer wind chills in the negative teens so I moved my chickens into the feed shed to better protect them from the wind. All hens acted like they knew what my intentions were. I've got a couple of hens with 'cool'...

Out of 3 rir hens and 1 bg that are laying I get 3 eggs most days. Sometimes 2 eggs. Maybe 5 days total with no eggs since last september when they first started to lay.

And I've gotten eggs almost every day this winter too. Gotta love it:-)

Just wanted to chime in- wind chill making it -10F tonight. My greenhorn self didn't do a conventional "house" when I first got my chickens. This is our first winter together and so far they've done great, much better than my nerves! They have a big 2'×4' roost on one side nest boxes to the...