At what temperature should you put vaseline on comb and wattle

[Blue]

I've never done this, and haven't had a rooster lose a comb in over a decade of having chickens. I don't know what temp. would be the recommended one for this. Vaseline does get dirty, or at least it did when I used it to grease some legs to get rid of scaly mites.

 

[7L Farm]

I live in Texas & its not suppose to get cold here & my roo got frostbite it was like 19 in the coop some mornings. But my coops are built for hot weather not cold plus my birds free range . Hopefully, this will be a mild winter & a wet one we need rain in a bad way. As mentioned everywhere has a different kind of cold.

 

[ChickenAl]

Humidity and lack of ventilation is one of the big problems in winter. If you can insulate the coop it will help with the humidity, but you also have to make sure you have vents up high, close to the rooftop of the coop.

 

[lorain's fids]

So if you were to use vaseline when it did get very cold, would it have to be done daily or would one application last a few days?

 

[UrbanFarmerGreg]

This doesn't really have anything to do with putting vaseline on my chickens but I was wondering about locking them up at night... I live in the city so I can't let them free range, They basically have a building with only the front being open (it is chicken wired) and a house on each end. One on the ground for the ducks and one on the other side off the ground for the chickens... Do I need to have a door on their houses to keep them warm, I am not that worried about predators... currently I lock them up everynight...

 

[featherz]

Vaseline on my chickens was disgusting and gross - I put it on my leghorn combs - they wiped it all over themselves and then dustbathed it into their feathers. It was a mess. I gave up on the vaseline. I couldn't bathe them in winter, so they stayed dirty brown until mid spring! They got a little mild frostbite last year when it was double digits below zero, but it healed up well. I have vents everywhere, but we had cold and high humidity everywhere - kinda hard to fix it when it's in the air.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

My gut feeling is that this is another Old Wive's Tale.

I am certainly not going to use this in my flock. Stick with the basics of fresh feed and water coupled with a dry, draft free shelter and your birds should survive low temperatures.

Jim

 

[ChickenAl]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

My gut feeling is that this is another Old Wive's Tale.

I am certainly not going to use this in my flock. Stick with the basics of fresh feed and water coupled with a dry, draft free shelter and your birds should survive low temperatures.

Jim

I think you hit the nail on the head.​

 

[7L Farm]

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One of my coops is three sided with no door but is positioned where it blocks the cold wind. Best advice is to keep the cold wind from blowing on the birds. No one likes to stand out in the cold with the wind blowing on them not even chickens.

 

[JodyJo]

my EE mix roo, I am really worried about this year...we have already gotten to teens at night here, but at least it is dry in Colorado...

A shot of one of my roos last year, he did get some frost bite: