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One thing that often gets overlooked with winter housing is the practical aspect of it. 100 years ago, folks didn't raise chickens for the fun of it. They were to make money. And as one guy put it, all the profit was in WINTER eggs, which were scarce if the birds shut down for the...

One person asked to see some "how to" pictures of construction techniques. This is how I did the metal siding and insulation on the Victory House.... The red metal siding will get hot as blazes in the summer sun, and will radiate heat out of the building in winter. Very durable, rat...

BTW, while in the Woods house this morning, with sun streaming in and out of the wind, even at 0F, it was not too bad in there. Warmest place I could find outside. The Victory House was another story. Even though I put in larger windows than spec, it lacks the heat gain from the sun, and worse...

Winter blast update....Woods House report: Temps went to -10F last night, winds honking from the north at 30 mph+. Birds came out this morning like they always do. 23 birds and only one or two had any sign of frostbite on the tips of their combs. RIR mostly. The Cinnamon Queens with larger...

And observation about the Woods house.......this house..... Notice the front of this house is wide open......covered with 1/2" x 1" welded wire, but wide open. And it stays that way year round. Birds running around on deep litter of dry coarse grass hay won't leave it to venture out to play...

To share some observations of late........we just went through a modest cold snap. For us, that meant overnight temps to +5F. Point being cold, extreme cold, etc. are all relative and subjective terms. What is extreme cold to someone in Florida is laughable as cold to someone used to -30F in...

Good point! Chanteclers are one breed I was thinking of. I currently have both silver laced Wyandottes and Easter Eggers and these do not have the same large combs as my RIR, Cinnamon Queens, Buffs, etc. At temps approaching -10F, I have seen the tips of the RIR combs go dark. The others never...

Bump.......a post from a year ago. Timely and still relevant today.

I have long noticed that questions and posts here on BYC tend to be content specific and follow seasonal trends throughout the year. Now that we are getting pretty deep into winter and serious cold is setting in, the current "hot" topic.......is dealing with cold weather. The #1 concern seems to...