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How are all you non-heating people keeping your water from freezing?

That coop is awesome! Do you have plans for it or something? That would be perfect for keeping snow from building up on the roof....

Connecticut. Not quite Maine, but it does get pretty cold here.

Does anyone out there have experience with raising Campines in New England? I've gotten mixed feelings from my research about how they'd do in the winter here....

Thanks for the responses, y'all have quite the community here. We would have 4, possibly 6 max. It's mainly for eggs, and we only have 4 people in the house, one of whom won't eat eggs anyway. Do they wander into the woods at all? The area I'm thinking of borders the woods, mostly pine needles...

A lot of this appeals to me, but I have a few fears that remain, even after reading a bunch of forum posts and a few good guides on the web. We've got about an acre and a half of lawn, which the hens would have free-roam of once they were properly "roosted." What I'm wondering is -- what can I...