Welcome to BYC! jlholm, have any questions about start up feed and coop designs?,i may be able to help.
where at in western New York, that's where i'm from. i live in cattaraugus. thats cool, snow is just melting here.:yiipchick I also raise small flock of chickens as a hobby, and am 6 months new to chickens!
www.thegardencoop.com/blog/2010/.../winter-chicken-coop-care-p2...
Winters get cold in New York, make sure to build and place coop out of wind as best as possible. I used a heat lamp for a while and lowered during the day to just above head level on really cold days(even when my chickens were still 4 months old) when they roost in the winter at night i raise the lamp so they can jump off their coop without knocking the lamp around. i then lower heat lamp again during daylight.
any idea what breed she is? she is 8 years old.
I culled my first cockerel, now what?
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