Heat source. Too many opinions. Gotta quit FB.

[M_Struna]

It’s 20° and dropping here and I have two chickens sleeping in trees. Well…one is in a tree. By choice. The other (a naked neck) is somewhere else. Also by choice. I’m not worried about them or the crows or the little cardinals I saw yesterday in the chicken tree. Of course mine are acclimated and the whole flock has been sleeping out up until a week ago. I have been locking them up for reasons unrelated to the cold this past week and their coop has ventilation all along the top (2” wide” and I’ve left one side of the coop open to the covered run. All that is to say, FB is dumb and the chicken people on I’ve seen on there are more likely to tuck a chicken into their bed than to let it live in it’s natural environment.

Hahaha!!! Well-stated!

 

[M_Struna]

Keeping the temp at 40-50 is a virtual guarantee that, as soon as
the electric goes out for a couple of days in an ice storm or blizzard, you'll lose half your flock and every single comb and wattle in the coop! The "FB poultry doc" doesn't know what they're talking about.

I've recently quit FB entirely. Now that it's online monitoring of everything on our devices (not just FB posts) for illegal status and "seditious" behavior is "legal," I have no desire to use it any longer. I'm "legal" and "clean," but Big Brother can take a hike!

I hear you in every way.

 

[RoyalChick]

Keeping the temp at 40-50 is a virtual guarantee that, as soon as
the electric goes out for a couple of days in an ice storm or blizzard, you'll lose half your flock and every single comb and wattle in the coop! The "FB poultry doc" doesn't know what they're talking about.

I've recently quit FB entirely. Now that it's online monitoring of everything on our devices (not just FB posts) for illegal status and "seditious" behavior is "legal," I have no desire to use it any longer. I'm "legal" and "clean," but Big Brother can take a hike!

How do you handle the issue that some, particularly small businesses, no longer have websites and only have FB?
Almost all the smaller local chicken hatcheries near me are FB only. Otherwise I would have quit a while back.