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Anyone else having problems with frostbitten combs? Now that it was down to 2 degrees this week my roos are looking a little 'bitten'. So far everyone has made it. I have not put out heat lamps, I figure I need to let mother nature select my flock for me if I'm going to persist with living in Missouri!
Okay, I have to confess to the above..... I DID have heat lamps at the start of winter, but when my youngest mille started using it as an excuse to crow all night, that stopped. Plus reading all the chicken articles about coop fires and making sure you have a hardy flock made me think twice. My neighbors tolerate my chickens, but if they started crowing all night that would end.