winter

Hi I went outside to find that one of my hens was eating a large quantity of snow yesterday and today. We give fresh water every day in a heated...

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....

Well, I wanted to now what life's like for everyone here during this time of year. Feel free to comment (including hate about raccoons) :) -...

So in the four years we've had our chickens, we've never bothered with heat lamps. Chickens have been totally fine, and no frost bite to speak of....

When we bought this house it had a coop inside an old barn (concrete floor, real walls, a ventilation window covered with hardware cloth, and two...

Hello everyone, So I just built my first coop and it is my first year with chickens. I realized I needed some kind of water drinker that...

My girls molted in and around Sept. We haven't had any eggs from any of them since then. (even the ones who weren't yet molting) It was not...

I have to get up very early in the morning and need an answer fast. One of my chickens is molting and the low tonight is 26F. Is that too cold for...

Is she molting or what? There are a ton of feathers falling out from one of our Americaunas so I figure it's our oldest lady molting. Let me know...

Well, I am down to just two mature hens, a rooster, and their three babies, all of which are silkies. Olly:[ATTACH] and Pippin:[ATTACH] we were in...

This is Deidre, this is her second Christmas and she is 1 of my 3 chickens. She's lost a lot of feathers which I've heard they do at winter but...

I have a question for the more experienced than I. We have a brand new flock of five hens (Rhode island red, welsummer, Easter egger, BPR, golden...

Hi all, I found my chickens just now laying together in a huddle in their run outside. It isn't cold here, and they have food and water. Is this...

My chickens have been doing better than I expected this winter, and I thought I would share some tips that keep my chickens going strong in the...

I live in N VA and the lows at night can get into the twenties. My pen outside is 8x6x5ft tall, on the ground, using straw as a deep litter method...

Guess who ... :frow The weather here in St. Louis has been crazy. We went right from summer into winter this year and I think the sudden change...

Hello, I have 11 full-size chickens, and no time to build a coop. I have pondered buying a storage building to make into a coop, but I was...

This is my second year with chickens so they are going through their first molting. The problem is they are molting now, in December. I live in...

Hey Ladies and Gents! I had two ducks named Doris Day (Pekin) and Jane Eyre (Khaki Campbell). They recently perished. :( But I am getting more...

Today I was out with my hens and noticed our 3 year old buff Orpington hens legs and feet were very red. It’s only snowed once here so far this...