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Quote: yes same here, I wish I knew that before my rooster lost ALL of his toes and his comb I've always used round perches and never had this problem....could the humidity in your coop be too high? Not enough ventilation? A round perch wouldn't have anything to do with a comb freezing...

I wish I had known.....nothing else. Water? Its winter, water freezes...either provide heating for it or change it out often. Cold? Chickens have a downy jacket that is sufficiently warm if one has cold-hardy breeds. Shelter? Its been my observation that chickens can survive in...

Quote: I used Ruth's advice and it worked beautifully! Only lost two chicks to a big black snake, the rest are huge, healthy and beautiful! Free ranging at 3 wks with the big flock and now, at 3 months, I can hardly tell who are the big flock and who are the chicks! No heaters here, no...

You'll want to be careful with the mirror, I think! My folks had a hand mirror that caught the sun coming through a window and reflected it back to a chair and caught it on fire! Probably a freak accident but makes one think....

Well, it will be a plastic waterer and I used the tape successfully on the waterer in my rabbit barn, so I think I'll try it here. Oh, Pat, I love the eternal safety watch dog that you are!!!! I'll be most careful in the use and application!

I'm going to try heat tape around my waterer this year and see if that works. I have a large heated livestock bucket for the dogs and the chickens drink out of that more than they do their own waterer, so I have a back up if I can't keep theirs thawed. I am tacking thick cardboard on the...