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    Need gender and breed help please

    Im just gunna give you my 2cents..... Patty looks like a Roo and RIR Nuggett - pullet and look to be porcelain in color not sure on actual breed Duckie - pullet thats a frizzled cochin most likely...it is frizzled for sure im not sure on breed Big Red is a roo I have a hen that looks that same...
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    Double check just to make sure he's a roo. -pictures re-uploaded-

    This boy just screams ROOOOOO
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    Dude or Dudette??

    That is the sweetest coolest beard i have ever seen on a EE
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    What is most comfortable for my chickens tootsies?

    ehhhh tough to say. we had a bird that was close to 10years old....i know OLD. She wouldnt go roost with the other birds she would just walk in and sit on the floor and fall asleep. The birds are going to stop roosting when they physically cant anymore and its up to them. 2x4 may work but...
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    It is a shingled roof by the way. But I will try to get pics tomorrow I have an extremely busy schedule but these guys are really important to me so I can find time. Ill get pictures of everything I can think of, maybe even post a youtube video of just my coop.
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    Quote: Alright well heres the deal....Im a High School Student and stapped for cash like most kids so im thinking tarps around it shall be okay. I let my birds out one group of them at a time but my father has a big Comet that likes to chase all my bantams. I tried making a run early fall...
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    well, i think we can stop calling this a coop....maybe a shack. Well okay, hose idea....good idea except Id need ALOT of hose to get it to my coop. But I think then it rains the water is coming in from the windows because all signs of water come from the east side where the windows are. We do...
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    Think it's too cold for your chickens? Think again...

    Quote: PROBABLY not, though it's good to be safe, right? Not sure how you can stop it... I'd like it if there were comb-jackets and little pockets for comb heaters LOL I know what Im asking grandma for Christmas now.
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    Well I dont think I am going to be able to fix the drafts cuz there are soooooo many areas there can be drafts. I have 5 bantams, 9 standards that are the size of my bantams cuz of their age, and the rest...approx 15....are only 4months old so its not as many grown birds as everyone thinks...
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    Quote: Well I dont understand the whole ventilation thing. Ill help you with some of these breeds if you help me with the ventilation equation thing. And nope I dont give them roosts because most of them do not like roosting since they are oddly shaped.
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    Quote: Okay we have a door with a wooden frame and screen, we nailed a huge piece of plywood over it for drafts. Their is still air that comes from the perimeter of the door. There is a 3ftx1.5ft window that is screen that i boarded up with plywood. Along the top of the coop their is one...
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    okay cuz it would take me an hour or 2 just to apply vaseline on all my birds they have sheer number so they wont be cold. I just need to protect from frostbite
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    too much ventilation cuz we have lil wire screen windows in there and since it rained last night and then the water must have froze so i mean water gets in and its pretty drafty cuz u can see cob webs move from the wind.
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    Think it's too cold for your chickens? Think again...

    hmmmm interesting so if i have no heat in my coop would my chickens still get frostbite. I have Japs that have very tall combs and others with tall combs. How can I stop the frost bite?
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    well my chickens never go outside in the winter they stay inside and try to stay warm. I just went in the coop and their are icicles hanging from the ceiling so idk what to do. Even if it was 0 degrees outside and a 5 degree difference inside wouldnt they still get frost bitten. I have used...
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    Quote: What do the apples do?
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    Help Its Getting Cold

    Alright this is my 2nd winter and I would appreciate it if people gave me ideas on how they keep their chickens warm. All my birds have big combs so frost bite is a factor. We have little windows of screen that run along the top of the coop and it is very drafty. Last year we made boxes with...
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    My duck doesnt like water

    Today we got some rain/snow mix and Ferdenand would just poke his head out of his little hut and wouldnt go out into the rain I was like hey buddy your a duck
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    Michigan

    Hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving and didnt have to kill more turkeys than they had to
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    Which breed is your favorite/ VERY nice?

    do they have to be all white? Japs are really nice but they aint the greatest in the cold.
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