cold snap

  1. Sequoia Raven Bird Farms

    Weak Pullet Unable to Stand Up. Previously Bleeding.

    Hello everyone. I just found my young bearded silkie x polish bantam pullet lying sideways on the coop floor. She was so stiff when I picked her up, but was still alive. She has control of her body, but she just seems so weak that she can't hold herself up. She was bleeding from the nose and...
  2. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Three hens in single digit temps

    SWVA here. My flock of 7, over time, has become a flock of only three (3) 7 year old hens. They have done fine with night-time lows down to around 7 degrees F, but on those occasions, it warmed quite quickly and was not en extended cold. They are currently out in the run active and bright at 10...
  3. Andrea3000

    Winter temp drop!

    I have a single gal. Almost 1 year old Barred Rock. She was a rescue, may be getting her a sister in a few months. Anyway- For now she has a custom built freestanding coop courtesy of my brother in law. We live in central Illinois. To winterize her coop I applied black plastic sheeting to avoid...
  4. teignch1cken

    HELP! Hen is molting in the middle of a cold snap

    Out of our five hens, one of them is molting late. She’s still in the process of losing feathers and has minimal new growth. We’re experiencing a cold snap right now; it’s -1 degree Fahrenheit and won’t get above freezing until two days from now (with night time lows still below freezing). When...
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