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Ya, I am in CT and one of my girls got frost bite on her comb last night. Today I hung another heavier tarp over the exposed wall (one side is blocked by a shed, another by a pine tree, and a third from the run. I am wondering if the heated water is what caused too much humidity last night? Mine...

Ok.. it was below zero last night with the wind chill. Every night I close the 5 girls in the coop which has a heated waterer but no other form of heat. They have a solar LED light but that throws no heat. Today it is about 12 degrees and when I went to let them out I noticed one or maybe two...

mine started the same thing this week. also have dug out places to lay outside

I bought them at K-Mart....

Sooner - At this point they are not yet 6 months and are not laying. I doubt I will run the light in the summer months but right now it is dark at 4:30pm and therefore with them closed in the coop, it is dark for them for more than 12 hours per 24 hour period so I wanted them to have more...

Do you know how long your solar's stay on? Most I find are only good for 4/6 hours.

Does anyone use solar lights for the inside of their coops? I just picked up a set of 50 xmas lights (solar) for about $10. I hung them so they stayed in a bundle over the nesting boxes and so far they are doing very nicely. It is brighter by the boxes and gives off a dim light throughout the...

Some picture's of my Plymouth Rock girls at 5 months.

I use the yellow treat ball i bought at the Feed Store. I use regular feed or sometimes corn. I had to show them once and since then they love it.

Ok.. this is the boy I had asked about earlier. The pictures stink but I hope it can give you an idea. He belongs to one of the residents here and he doesn't know the breed (got from a friend). I just love his color patterns and am wondering what he could be. The picture doesnt' show it well but...

The current regs are 5 chickens on 1.25 acres so they are just changing the allowed land.

I ordered 10 day old pullets from Ideal this summer and specifically told them NOT to add any "packing peanuts" if they could be roo's and I only got the 10 pullets that I requested w/o extra's.

I was at a residence yesterday (I am an ACO) and one of the guys roosters was the most awesome colored bird I have seen. I asked him and he didn't know as he was given the bird by a friend. Looked like someone took different pain colors and splashed a white bird with the brushes. I didn't have a...

At the October 24, 2011 Tolland, CT Town Zoning Meeting, they will be discussing the revision of the zoning regulation to allow up to 6 chickens (No Roosters!) as an "as-of-right" use to residential lots as small as 0.5 acres (Currently the regulation requires that one must own a minimum of 1.25...

Thanks for the nice comments :o) They got to get out of the coop/run yesterday for the first time and they had a blast. It is amazing how much damage they can do with those little claws in a short amount of time, LOL!!

This is one of my Plymouth Rock Pullets @ 7 weeks. She is known as "Buffy" the Weed Slayer.....

Thanks all.. especially to "YAH" for sharing the link... I guess I will bed them down and hope for the best...

Sorry... All 5 of my girls are Plymouth Rocks (2 Barred, 2 Partridge, and 1 Buff). I guess the answers are the reason I am torn. I hear some say to do nothing and some that I feel go overboard (in other links), LOL! My coop is 4x6, is under a pin tree, with a shed nearby on 1 side and a 6ft...

Hi all.... well our first group of girlz are doing well. They are now 7 weeks old and have been out in the coop for Bout a month. They have been allowed in their pen for about 2 weeks now and are excited to go out in the AM and in in the PM (7:30 seems to be their time and DON'T ASK THEM TO COME...

Thanks.. we will have 6 to 10 (trying to sell 4) in a 4 x 6 coop. Thanks for the info.