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    Chilly? Cold? Nahhhhhhhh

    They were laying well up until about a month ago. But the flock had some drama starting in december with a couple straight run roosters that matured. Egg production fell off for the last month or so. The roosters have since departed our flock and eggs are starting to show back up. I imagine they...
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    Chilly? Cold? Nahhhhhhhh

    The coop has two windows and there is ventilation ports at the top of the shed.
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    North Dakota

    Good morning, from Western North Dakota! We are in Williston and have 18 birds right now. I am new here, and just enjoying reading other peoples experience. We have had chickens for about a year now, and are enjoying it very much. We kind of over thought everything when we started, but are...
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    Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

    Converted a shed. Installed two windows. Painted a water proof layer in the floor and up the walls a couple of feet (I use the deep litter method in the winter). Installed a few nesting boxes for now, but this spring I am going to have 6 nesting boxes that are exterior to the coop to take up...
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    Hi...I’m completely new here and full of questions.

    Enjoy the new chickens and the adventure of them. Others have hit the proper diet that you need to take, but also figure out where they will live in the short term. They grow fast and outgrow plastic bins and such quickly. In a few weeks they will be able to fly out of anything that isn't a few...
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    Chilly? Cold? Nahhhhhhhh

    Good morning. It is a brisk -10 right now, in Williston North Dakota. We got 8-9 inches of snow last night and winter continues! We moved up here a little over a year ago from sunny Arizona, and we got chickens right away. I was worried about the cold and having chickens, but I can now see the...
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    Arctic blast coming to my area

    We live in North Dakota, and heating the coop is a waste. It is -10 outside right now, and about 19-20 degrees in my coop. My ladies are fine. A couple even ran outside for a little bit, but for the most part they are just hanging out on their roosts. I have a draft free, un-insulated shed that...
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