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We are about the same temperature outside. The winds are really starting to pick up. We will get wind chills from -20 -35 in the next few days. My chickens needed some motivation to get moving, but none are outside today. My turkeys are always outside during the day. The wild turkey will be fine...

I don't know exactly what humidity would be best as I have never tracked it. My bantam coop has the pop hole and the crack around the door for ventilation. There's also a window facing into the barn that I use to control air movement by opening and closing. My bantam roosters have never gotten...

Not the best of photos, but here's the inside of my bantam coop. I use a bale inside there to block winds and they sit on it and peck pieces out. I also put slabs on the floor in bad weather to keep them occupied. I don't know how people keep chickens without hay as I use it all winter for food...

They certainly are getting right to work at it.

They are stinking cute. They are my favorites.

I don't have a current picture of the inside of my bantam coop. Here they are making use of their hay bale tunnel before we got snow.

Mine won't go outside currently. I guess mine are all babies. They will eventually get used to the snow again and will venture out. My bantam coop in built in the back corner of our barn. It is about 8x9. Three walls are insulated, and one is cinder block. There are 18 bantams in there...

It is in the teens here today with single temperatures with the wind chills. The water in my bantam coop was not frozen even though the pop hole was open all night, so mine must be above freezing. Mine won't go outside, they just go out into the tunnel made of bales used to block direct winds...

Chickens suffer more in the heat. It has to get to -20 before I see some birds looking cold, even those days getting them moving with some scratch, and giving them so access to sunlight, either through a south facing window or a south facing sheltered area can help them warm up. Warm feed and...

I find layer to be too low in protein. There are some brands with a higher protein content now. 18-20% seems to be the best when extras are fed. I keep a separate bowl of oyster shells for the extra calcium needs. I feed either a non medicated grower or an All Flock. They go through multiple...

Thanks. Those are good breeds. I will mention one other factor that can mess up chickens. Most are suppose to reach sexual maturity in the fall under decreasing light. When chickens are raised out of season and sexually mature in spring under increasing light it seems to mess with the nature...

It's probably not a true molt, it could still be the last baby molt and occasionally younger hens will partially molt which is usually confined to the head and neck. My guess is it's a combination of baby molt and them getting in some winter ready feathers and bulking up their plummage. It's...