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I, too, am very comfortable with how comfortable the chickens are at sub-zero temps. We don't get quite so cold here in the "Deep South " but it's been in the teens below zero a few days at a time and they've done just fine. I have lots of ventilation and no drafts in my coop. I bring out hot...

I, also, am a deep litter fan. I use the hens to shred my leaves (mostly maple and oak) and mix in their poo as they go. In spring, I haul out a layer for my garden. Coop and run are together under one roof and all deep litter over 1/2 inch hardware cloth and dirt. I collect leaves in...

I use only leaves from the trees in my yard. Oak, maple, birch and beech, mostly. I bag them in the fall, store them in a diy "leaf barn" hoop house made from cattle panels and spread them out as the hens break them down into lovely dirt for my garden.

DIY Instructions for Very EASY heated waterer for under $20 bucks

I only have 5 birds and no electricity to my coop. I take warm water out each morning in a gallon iced tea jug and put it in a TSC rubber bowl. With plastic around the open areas, it warms up enough for liquid water most of the day. Spring-Fall I use a 5-gallon food-grade bucket with cup...

I built a 20x10 coop/run combo (see pictures at "my coop") and have 5 hens. In the winter, that seems like enough room. They can't wait to get out into the fenced yard as soon as I can let them, though.

I've gotten several over the past 3 years. Egg went through the process too fast? missed getting a shell put on. My girls have really good strong membranes and I've had whole shell-less eggs just quivering in the nest box or on the floor of the coop. If you had no membrane, I would guess your...

Nothing...unless there is obvious infection. They will heal on their own. The points will fall off, if frostbitten enough, and heal. Frostbite is caused by too much moisture so you may need to look at increasing ventilation in your coop.

4. (maybe) My leghorns are notorious feather-eaters. I usually have bare-bottomed hens on the lower end of the pecking order. They also have missing back and head feathers from time to time. Since they only grow out after a molt, they look pretty scruffy for much of the year. You may have one...

All three are laying light tourquoise eggs. They vary from more to less green.

@lazy gardener these are your pullets helping me clean up this year's carrot bed, with my white leghorn. They sure are pretty...and turning out to be steady layers, too.

mlowen:  How are your pullets doing?  Mine are giving me some beautiful eggs now.  Some a nice olive color, and some a nice turquoise.  Also getting brown, cream, and a couple of blue eggs.  I'm really pleased with the mix of this year's pullets.  All of the pullets are showing better body...

I have a very open, ventilated coop. I put plastic on the windows and around the run part, but the eves are wide open all winter. I've had the leghorns get a teeny bit of frostbite on a point or two of their comb, but none of the other birds have had any at all. I have no electricity out there...

@lazy gardener I don't know if you can see this very well, but it's my attempt at "hawk prevention." I had extra leveling line in a hot pink, so I tied it between the 7 foot stump in the middle of the outdoor run and the fence. I also have it between a pvc pipe and the fence in the front yard...

All three pullets laid, yesterday! All a beautiful shade of green.

One of the "Crow Sisters" from Lazy Gardener laid her first egg. Yep, they look like they are going to be green!

I think Harvey Ussery writes about trying that with road kill and his birds did get botulism and die. People south of us can raise soldier fly larvae. We could probably generate some by buying breeding adults each summer. They eat veggies and poop and the adults don't eat or bite. Lots of info...

@ LazyGardener, welcome home! I hope your trip was meaningful and fun. Your girls are growing into beautiful ladies. All three showing a little reddening of their faces, so I think eggs are coming within a month or so. Big girls are letting the little girls sleep on the top bunk with them.