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70?? Where do you live and what kind of birds? I sure hope you live in Florida, 'cause if you live north you are spending (unnecessarily) a TON of money on electricity. -9 F yesterday, my girls were fine and popped out 9 eggs (most ever). No heat and no insulation (can't imagine how I could...

I hope my girls do that. Since they will never be eaten, it would be nice if they were productive until their dying day (well ALMOST their dying day). You can't delete it (that I know of) but you can edit and remove all the text or replace it with "oops multiple repeat post" or something...

Not to stir the pot and I have great respect for you Justine so please know this is not personal Actually, that would be fine with me :) The idea is to get eggs from the very happy chickens at home rather than the the grocery store egg factory birds. Thus, a serious drop off to near zero in...

Need more info, like where you live. Chickens have natural, personalized, form fitting down coats with insulating feathers on top. Near as I can tell (and not YET from personal experience) they don't need heat in the coop no matter where you live. Especially since yours is insulated. The only...

I'm only just now hitting winter #1 with chickens so I can't give any "been there, done that" info. Best I can offer is I made my nest box a community, like yours but it is external (coop is inside a barn) and the tall wall of the nest is the 1/2" plywood wall of the stall now coop. There is a...

My understanding is "Yes". You want them to have a natural bed time based on the light that day but can wake them up early with a light. Apparently doesn't need to be very bright either. Bruce

One thing to watch out for with respect to light bulbs. Not all compact fluorescent and LED bulbs can be used with photocells. Check the package first. Bruce