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My seramas have been doing fine without heat. We have been in the single digits some days. Tonight we could get as low as -15 with chill factor...I'm thinking I need to bring them in until this cold front passes, I don't want to push them too much, I'd be crushed to go out and find all my birds had froze.
 
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My seramas have been doing fine without heat. We have been in the single digits some days. Tonight we could get as low as -15 with chill factor...I'm thinking I need to bring them in until this cold front passes, I don't want to push them too much, I'd be crushed to go out and find all my birds had froze. 
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WOW THATS COLD! BRRRRRRRRRRRR..... I agree to bring them in too :love
 
billiejw89 said:
They are all inside now toasty warm. :) I got a weight on my smallest hen and was surprised that she is actually 14oz she seems much smaller than that. I can't imagine how teeny a 8oz hen would be. Amazing.
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I know their size and weight are deceiving... I have a micro roo PEENUT that lives in my house 24/7 but I would have to weigh him to get an actual number
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billiejw89 said:
They are both so cute! I want an inside chicken. Do they wear a diaper? I don't think I could convince my family lol 
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My adult birds are in their own cages, in the front porch...right off my living room. It's the only place I have to keep them with out setting up something out in the unheated garage...they made a real mess around the cages before I made some "Cage Diapers" a kind of cloth bag with elastic around the top...it's shaped to fit the cage bottom...so they can scratch and flip around in the bedding to their hearts content, without making a mess! It doesn't keep everything in but only a few wood shavings managed to escape. Easily swept up. I can talk to them from my couch! They have had a particularly determined hawk fly into the window screen...boy did that set off the alarm calls!!! They growl at the ravens and crows...comment on the snow mobiles that pass by on the lake...I cover the cages at night and as soon as it's light out I uncover them...they love to sit on their "Real Branch" perches and watch the world go by...I also have a homemade hardware cloth cage with three chicks living in my picture window...I found a washable heating pad with 6 temperature settings...)the lowest setting is about 95-104 degrees) I tucked it into a cardboard box, so it lines the bottom, back and top of the box...tucked a small stuffed animal into the box for the chicks to snuggle up to...working like a charm. "Heating Pad Hen" no brooding light. They can sit on or around where they are comfortable. Lots of happy chick sounds...so I guess it's working. The incubator is set up right along side the chick cage...so hopefully when the eggs start to hatch they will be able to communicate with the chicks. Sorry for running on about my house chickens!!! But I love the look on people's faces when you tell them that you keep chickens inside your house!!! I usually tell them that Parrots poop too!!! People keep them in their homes all the time!
 
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My adult birds are in their own cages, in the front porch...right off my living room. It's the only place I have to keep them with out setting up something out in the unheated garage...they made a real mess around the cages before I made some "Cage Diapers" a kind of cloth bag with elastic around the top...it's shaped to fit the cage bottom...so they can scratch and flip around in the bedding to their hearts content, without making a mess! It doesn't keep everything in but only a few wood shavings managed to escape. Easily swept up. I can talk to them from my couch! They have had a particularly determined hawk fly into the window screen...boy did that set off the alarm calls!!! They growl at the ravens and crows...comment on the snow mobiles that pass by on the lake...I cover the cages at night and as soon as it's light out I uncover them...they love to sit on their "Real Branch" perches and watch the world go by...I also have a homemade hardware cloth cage with three chicks living in my picture window...I found a washable heating pad with 6 temperature settings...)the lowest setting is about 95-104 degrees) I tucked it into a cardboard box, so it lines the bottom, back and top of the box...tucked a small stuffed animal into the box for the chicks to snuggle up to...working like a charm. "Heating Pad Hen" no brooding light. They can sit on or around where they are comfortable. Lots of happy chick sounds...so I guess it's working. The incubator is set up right along side the chick cage...so hopefully when the eggs start to hatch they will be able to communicate with the chicks. Sorry for running on about my house chickens!!! But I love the look on people's faces when you tell them that you keep chickens inside your house!!! I usually tell them that Parrots poop too!!! People keep them in their homes all the time!
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Sounds like they have a wonderful place to live! I need to get some diapers for at least one of my birds.
I got some pictures of Pearl my 14 oz hen. She's my favorite. And the dark one is Princess, my favorite out of the clutch my other 2 hens hatched this fall. I love the black lacing on her feathers.






 

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