Frozen chickens?

[TheOddOneOut]

put heaters out, put out heat plates, and try to do everything you can to keep them warm. also, make sure to put vaseline on their combs

Actually, unless temps are below freezing during the day, all this is unnecessary.

 

[aart]

- Vaseline on chickens in Quebec = the combs are sure to get frostbitten. The salve adds moisture to the skin instead of protecting it, so covering the single combs of my birds with it during particularly cold nights is a very bad idea. If there is a way to protect single combs with Vaseline without icing them over, I have not found it.

 

[3KillerBs]

Additionally, as a petroleum product, Vaseline can be irritating to the skin for long-term use.

I'm one of those odd people who love watching medical videos on YouTube and I've often seen doctors having to treat a secondary skin problem around an infected wound that was caused by the petroleum jelly that is part of the antibiotic ointment the patient was using.

 

[The WinterWolf]

i would still put vaseline on their combs, but you guys are the experts here

 

[Dhkoenig]

I decided to put a heating pad out for mine - one of them (hard molt like yours) is an odd-lady-out and the other girls don't let her perch with them so I got the heating pad to put underneath her perch. I feel good about it. I don't have to wonder. It is a low setting so it isn't like I am getting my hen used to tropical temps, but once her molt is over and she is feathered out, it will be a gradual acclimation back. I like the idea of giving her a bit of comfort that is subtle and then gradually goes away as her feathers come in

 

[Lenny loves chickens]

i would still put vaseline on their combs, but you guys are the experts here

@aart why not vaseline on the combs I do it so I am just curoius?

 

[6BeachChicks]

Because it doesn't prevent frostbite.
Have a link to a post where someone actually tried some with V and some without, they all got nipped....I'll have to look for it.
Best to leave hands off, before and after frostbite.

Wow! I never knew that. It usually doesn’t go below 10 degrees Fahrenheit here. Won’t be doing that again. (I only did it once)

 

[aart]

Why not?

Because it doesn't prevent FB.
Best to leave hands off before and after.

 

[catballou]

Actually, unless temps are below freezing during the day, all this is unnecessary.

If the temps are below freezing, they're fine out of the wind. If the temps are below zero (F) in the coop, then I'd heat it.

 

[Lenny loves chickens]

Coat with wax but you have to do before freezing temp....with none moisturizing stuff in it