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    Winterizing in Illinois - coop heaters and other questions

    Just popped back herr ot say THANK YOU! I implemented your advice and all fove of my girls are dry, happy, and safe from the minks! One has even started laying, depsite the fact that we did not install any 14 hour a day lighting!
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    Dust Bath in the Coop for Winter?

    Thank you! I love the litter box idea! Your roo is absolutely gorgeous.
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    Dust Bath in the Coop for Winter?

    Hello, I have five hens (3 golden sexlinks- 8months old, 2 Cochins- 9 months old) in a 4'x8', partially 2 level coop. They have a large run, where I keep their dust bath. We just had our first significant snow of the season a few days ago. My girls have no interest in stepping on the snow...
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    Winterizing in Illinois - coop heaters and other questions

    The hutch is inside the 4'x8' coup. We put it in to provide an extra snuggly, sheltered place. There's other roosting bars in the coop, but outside the hutch. The current run is roughly 12' wide and 36' long, but we have a larger area that we are preparing to build are larger coop for next...
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    Winterizing in Illinois - coop heaters and other questions

    There are other roosts available in the general coop area, but they generally prefer to sleep on top of or in the hutch - and 100% in the hutch for the past 3 weeks It does go all the way to the ground in the back, but I've left it a bit open for now. The weather is still nice and I didn't...
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    Winterizing in Illinois - coop heaters and other questions

    Thank you!
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    Winterizing in Illinois - coop heaters and other questions

    Thank you!
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    Winterizing in Illinois - coop heaters and other questions

    Thank ypu so much for your response I dont recall the exact dimentions, but the hutch is about 2' tall, 1.5' deep, and 4' wide and it's raised 3 feet off of the ground. This is what it looked like before we added the bedding and installed it in the coop. Would we be better off securing...
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    Winterizing in Illinois - coop heaters and other questions

    Thank you sonmicj for your response. I will definitely be adding hardware cloth to my next shopping list. The bars/walls are steel, the roof is made of tarpaulin and came with the kit Primarily, we feed the dry commercial crumble, but also supplement their diet with lots of fresh...
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    Winterizing in Illinois - coop heaters and other questions

    This will be my first winter as a chicken tender and we are gearing up the coop for winter. We live in northeast Illinois (Chicago suburbs) where winters can wildly vary between mild and practically arctic - most years, yo-yoing between both extremes several times each winter. We have five...
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    Blue Cochin @ 18 weeks
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    Blue and White Cochin sisters @ 18 weeks
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    Blue and White Cochin sisters @ 14 weeks
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    They dug a little hole and took a little nap
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    Golden Sex Links @ 12 weeks
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