freezing temperature

I'm in the Midwest and we just made it through a nasty blizzard but the Temps are still crazy low, it's -14 right now with a real feel of -29. I've been super worried about the girls but they seem to be hanging in there ok. We use deep litter method and I heard it adds a little warmth in the...

Hello everyone, I am from Central Massachusetts and I have 4 hens that are about one and a half years old. I have my hens in a large over ez chicken coop, it’s been altered to have more ventilation at the top. The coop normally only stays about 5-10 degrees warmer than outside in the winter...

This morning my dad found one of our hens with really swollen, frozen feet. All the others are fine and they were locked up in the coop all night so I don't know how she got this cold. She can balance, but it takes a little while for her get fleet balanced. She can't really walk. My dad had to...

Hello! We've had a relatively mild winter here in SWVA, however, we are expecting temps to drop next week, and I'm worried about my flock: First of all, is this an extreme enough drop that I need additional interventions like keeping them in the basement overnight (unfinished & not temp...

I do not have electricity for my coop or run... I have put out straw and hay in the run... I have fine pine shavings in their coop... I go out each day and toss each to keep it fluffed and not matted... But tonight, it has dropped to 13 degrees...I have brought out warm to hot oatmeal each...

So recently we built a pretty a medium sized coop for our chickens enough room to walk around etc. and we have two doors on each side for roaming. But we did not add in a window because we thought that since it’s the winter we wouldn’t want any drafts. This weekend it’s suppose to be well below...

Hey, we had a baby goat Born Sunday evening (right after the saints won :celebrateWHODAT). So she's only 3 days old and the temperature is supposed to drop below freezing. We only have the baby and her mama . They are in the barn with plenty of hey, feed and water but I was wondering if I need...

We lost our Americana hen last night. We thought she got locked out of the coop last night & froze. Poor girl. It was about -20 with the windchill. Tonight my son found a Silver Wyandotte dead. She wasn't frozen yet. Now we're thinking the first one died & he just didnt see her when he locked...