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Tiffyany, I'm SO sorry to hear of your horrible loss! We are not far from you in Ladysmith . . . we're just east of Abbotsford and had the same temps. All our chickens, geese and ducks appear to be fine. Do you have any idea why you lost so many? Are there any drafts in the coop...

We lost a total of five this winter -- four in one night. It was just before Christmas, when we had an arctic blast. Turns out our coop was too drafty. We wrapped the entire outside of the coop in plastic (we have a "vent" at the top on the east side that was left open -- but we took an old...

Their roost is a wide plank (like a 2x4), that allows them to sit on the wide end so they can cover their toes. Her frostbite happened the night we lost 4 chickens. It was too drafty in the coop when it was -35 wind chills overnight. I THOUGHT she looked fine, but now the toes and part of...

A couple weeks ago, I had a hen with frozen toes. We brought her in and placed her on towels with a hot water bottle underneath. We also covered her with a towel and placed a heater in front of her to help warm her up. The good news is that she's doing GREAT and shows absolutely no signs of...

Quote: She's inside because she had frozen feet (prior to all the work we did on the coop in the last couple of days). I put her in our dog's kennel (we have a 100 lb. German Shepherd, so the kennel is plenty large enough for a couple of chickens), and had her on a hot water bottle with...

Thank you! Those are GREAT ideas! I'm sure she'll be very happy with some of that to keep her busy! Julie

I posted here (the last post in the thread) https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=113255&p=9 about a hen that I had to bring into the house and who's staying in our dog crate. She's going to have to stay in for a while, and I'm thinking she's GOT to be bored. I don't want...

Well, so far so good! We've had wind chills of -35 since we put the plastic on the coop and everyone's OK! Saturday, the kids stapled up cardboard and loaded it with hay. Aaron tells me it's definitely better inside than it was before, and most certainly better than outside! Some of the...

Well, the good news is that the hen in the basement is still alive! Wahoo! She's standing and eating and drinking. I'm going to keep her inside for a few days until the weather clears up a bit. We have high winds and snow right now and it's darn cold outside. The other good news is...

Thank you both. The coop is actually quite large. I don't know the exact dimensions, but it's 50 feet around -- I only know that because we bought two rolls of plastic that were 10' x 25' and we only had 2 feet left (not counting what we had to cut off to be able to open the door). I've...

Thank you. We went and bought two rolls of 4 mil plastic and wrapped the entire outside of the coop in it and stapled it in place. I also have about 10 bales of straw lining the bottom to keep the plastic in place and to help keep it a bit warmer. I then took another bale of straw and used...

I would love to know about a product like that, too! Thanks! Julie

I've been having the same problem. Went outside this morning and four of our chickens are dead. A Polish chicken was the first to die, and now the second Polish chicken is dead. These are all from McMurray Hatchery, that we received in August. I don't think it's that they're not hardy...