Photos of my chickens: Silkies, Showgirls and Bantams?. I bought them all together along with 3 different sized coops, but choose to only use the largest one. If anyone can help me identify which are my roosters it would be very helpful to me as I've not been around chickens since I was a toddler. I know that I positively have 2 roosters since I've seen them as they were crowing and getting busy with the ladies. The pretty black hen in the solo photo sustained a leg injury where she can't stand on it a few weeks after the photo was taken. She's my main layer and she somehow gets around the front enclosure of the coop (where I keep their food and water), but I'm worried about her this winter since we had up to 40" of snow at it's deepest and -33 degrees at the coldest and bringing her inside is out of the question for I live in a very small trailer with 3 adult cats and no garage.
I'm very new to raising any breed of chickens and was told that the ones I have are Silkies and Showgirls by their former owner, but upon doing a little research, I found that some were called Bantam Cochins. I really could use some help in identifying their actual breeds. I've only had them since July 8 this year. Also any suggestions for winterizing their coop would be very helpful. If this winter is like last year or worse, I'm going to be trudging up and down a 150' long hill carrying food and water in deep snow and frigid temperatures (got down to -33 degrees last winter). There is no water line going to their coop only me carrying gallon jugs. We're planning on running electric to the coop for the base heater I just bought (still need to buy a galvanized waterer) and for one light (mainly for me to see by when checking on them).
