cold weather

[Happy Chooks]

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Depends where you live. If my coop faced south, I'd have cold, wet, dead chickens. We are sheltered to the North and most of our storms come from the south. My coop faces North to avoid the brunt of the storms (and heat in the summer). My North side of the house doesn't even get wet in most storms.

 

[kk454]

29 below this morning in central Montana. The thermometer in the coop was showing 15 below (1500 watt heater and a heat lamp going). Hens are still laying, in fact one of my pullets layed her first egg (missed the box) and I threw out some extra corn for scratch, but everything appears alright. I might take them out some hot oatmeal later as encouragement.

 

[highcountrychickens]

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Yeah, I tried that, but they have insisted they're too cool for such mundaine equipment - They want snowboards and baggy pants that won't go up past their backsides so they can be proper knuckledragging shred-birds. They were just asking for stamps, I think they're sending in applications for the poultry winter X-games.
Eggs schmeggs... they want Redbull endorsements, man.

 

[lngrid]

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This is slightly off-topic, but I was driving around town a few months ago and heard a motivational and job-skills speaker for advertised on the radio. They played a quote from one of his seminars: "And young men, if you want to be taken seriously by society at large, I have just four words for you: 'Pull Your Pants UP!' "