Here's the outside of his stall. (Not the one with a Cornish and a Phoenix roosting). It has a door under the wire and some parts of the barn are open to allow airflow. I shut the window behind them to keep snow out
No, he's somewhere far larger and with less drafts. He has a bowl but the way it's angled doesn't let his wattles get wet. And no, he loves to crow and my parents have made it very clear that he is not to be in the basement because of that
I do not ever put heat lamps in my coop. I've seen first hand the damage they can cause if they get knocked down, and my worrymost bird is far, far from any outlets I could plug in eitherway
Are there ways to totally prevent (or reduce) frostbite?
It gets cold in the winter (-20 often and even colder in the night) and I've got some birds I really don't want to lose their gigantic combs and wattles.
No, it's not simple enough to just buy birds with small combs. My cockerel naked...