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    Northerners - insulating coops?

    I agree with Fred, if you insulate you end up having moisture issues in the winter if you don't have ventilation...I had a bird bath heater in my chicken's water, and at 0 to -10, it vaporized and got my chickens all wet. I took the water out, put in dry bedding, and started just giving them...
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    Nesting boxes? Hay and straw not available, what to put in them?

    Hi, I was using pine shavings, until I lost my banty rooster. I believe he succumbed to the vapors from the bedding...now I don't know everything about chickens or pine shavings, but it happened about one month after I started using pine, and he did develop some type of breathing problem. I...
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