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Here are the photos, sorry it's a little dark, the sun sets at like 3 here now. I just found out that this is technically a tractor coop but it works for now

Will be posting some images tomorrow.

I am happy to say that my Uncle has bought us a very nice chicken coop as a present, I am so happy that we have another coop now , and its a nice one too

Hi, thanks so much for your kindness and I will definitely take a look at some plans, but how exactly do you PM people?, (Lol, sorry i'm still learning about this website)

What area of new Brunswick do you live in, because I know that it can be a lot warmer there than here (specifically USDA zones) and I also had the cord plugged into a GFCI outlet that was pre-installed on my house and had just purchased that high quality outdoor extension cord (That just ended...

Well, like I said before, I think my best plan at this point is to build a small coop in a space in my garage over the Christmas break (So they don't have to deal with any more cold) and move that out in the spring and see if I can't get a better system set up. After all our old coop was kind of...

I like the idea, but like you said, yeah it gets pretty cold like -40F, I think i'll just make sure to prevent the fire from starting as best I can, like what blackdog said by putting a wire frame at the bottom of the bucket and fully securing the heat lamp (If we choose to use one again) But I...

Thanks :)

Yeah, that's probably best so that it doesn't melt a hole in the bottom if something malfunctions or you just run out of water. I'll almost definitely do something like that in my next coop just to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I'll see if I can't find the box, but what seems to have happened is that it melted through the bucket and caught the straw on the ground on fire, maybe the water was all out?, everyone was kind of busy so unfortunately we hadn't checked on them in a little while.

Yeah, at the time of the fire the air was thankfully still but if it had burned down today, I probably wouldn't have a house either because it is so windy. And as for building a new coop, I think i'll just build a semi temporary structure in my garage and move the chickens in there when the...

The structure just behind the wreck is what they are in right now

We came back home at around 5 but by then the coop had already burned almost entirely to the ground, so I would guess it would have started around 3, and we had a small ventilated door on the side of the coop leading into the run so that the chickens could always get out, that's what had saved...

I finished cleaning the up rubble today, here are some images now that I think about it, it's more likely that the water heater started it.

I have 9 birds, all luckily okay.

At the moment I currently have them in a small coop that we were going to use for quails, it seems to work fine but we are going to have to set up a new coop soon.

the extension cord alone was over 100 dollars!

We really don't know what caused the fire, it could've been the heat lamp, the water heater, or an extension cord problem but what i do know is that a lot of money got washed down the drain.

Yeah, I am so thankful that all my chickens were okay, but the structure that we worked really hard on was just a pile of flaming rubble :(. We had to desperately shovel snow onto it to put it out, but it was just sad to see everything we had built in a small pile on the ground. As for advice on...