winterizing

We live in Western New York where winters can get COLD! I am looking for advice on winterizing our coop (it’s in an old barn stall/shed) and winterizing our goat pen (also in an old barn stall with three walls and an opening to the outdoors). What method is best for chicken flooring? What...

Hello I am a newbie, Trying to design insulation and ventilation. I have a 10x20 atomic zombie chicken tractor. Made with hog panels and completely covered with hardware cloth. The design called for that plastic corrugated cardboard stuff for the coop, not ok for winter. I live in...

I have 15 eight month old pullets. Great egg layers, all healthy etc. Cold weather is here where I live so during our winter preps we purchased a metal double wall waterer and the warmer to go underneath it. We were using the red bottom plastic 3 gallon waterer before that. I put the metal...

I have 2 Toulouse geese, and this year will be their second winter. The first year, we did what we normally do with the chicken coop and just put tarps up around their coop and put lots of straw in there for them. That all seemed fine but then the geese started making little 'goosie windows',as...