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    Think it's too cold for your chickens? Think again...

    My silkies are in one coop with bantams only. They are floor sleepers and sleep in the under-coop.Its cozy warm.Five of the bantams have a roost in the run where they sleep.The coop is useless except for laying eggs in the communal egg box and for the community center in the middle. The roosts...
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    Think it's too cold for your chickens? Think again...

    Remember in the words of Farmer Gabe: feathers protect from the weathers fur protects from the burr pine shavings upon a cold floor, will make your chickens shiver no more Three things to keep you warm in winter: 1. Fat 2. Hair/feathers/fur 3. Warm running blood
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    Think it's too cold for your chickens? Think again...

    Chickens give off 5btu's of heat per bird.Thats plent for them to stay warm.We only got to 15 degrees in SC so far.I dont have heat nor lights in my coop.Did the pioneers have lights and electrical in their coops?
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