sub-zero
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Baked bricks for sub zero days! just a friendly tip from up North!
Just sharing as someone who lives in a region where it Sub-Zero for 2 months of the year and below freezing for the rest of the 4 and a half months a year of winter, what I do to help the chickens out on these especially cold snaps when it gets into the negatives! I bake 4 bricks (you could do...- FernwoodHollow
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- cold birds comfort freezing sub-zero
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Frost bite - treatment ?
Minnesota resident here with the first subzero day . I noticed my hen with the largest combs having some frost bite on her already 😭. We have an open drinking water container and I added less water to it so she wouldn’t dunk her head in the water so much is there anything I can do like apply...- Icehen99
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- frost bite minnesota olive egger saphire olive egger sub-zero
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- Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
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Winter molt and -15 degree weather
Hello - I’ve been keeping chickens for about 4 years now, so am still somewhat of a novice. I have a hen who is just now molting (all the rest are done). I live in New England. I have never heated my coop (I do use one of those “pie tin” water heaters, though). BUT - Saturday night is going to...- Curlyginger
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- heat molting sub-zero winter
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock