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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'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...