wolfpak glad you were able to save yours. Mine are sleeping inside at night, but I think they just never recovered from playing outside when the rain, sleet, ice mixture was coming down.
My other 4 are still good, more ice coming Monday I think. Hope the other 4 stay dry & healthy. I haven't yet locked them inside, might consider it if the forecast doesn't change.
The last 4 made it through the night. The snow we had last night was our first dry snow. Each time before it has been snow mixed with sleet, ice, rain. I haven't found any birds with ice on them when they were dead inside the coop, but other than getting wet & chilled I don't know what else it...
They have a large pen that is 30ftx60ft & acess to 2 indoor coops. We are finding most of them on the inside of the coop, only a few on the outside. The only other thought I have is they are getting wet from the snow & ice & that is chilling them more. The most recent recent loss DD bagged up...
We have had the same set up for 3 yrs. Never had an issue, but we have lost multiple birds to the cold this yr. honestly my birds have never had to endure temps this low. We lost 10 birds last night alone. The wind chill was 10 bellow. The chickens are in the same type of set up, no chickens or...