How much room do they need???

[CKfarm22]

My chickens are live stock...and live better then most ive seen

Good for you?

Seems like an opinion. My chickens get great food, daily roaming and a nice roomy coop and run And i don’t cull them because they had a mishap with laying eggs.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

In the winter? In alaska? YES the do.

No one said about putting a waterer in a coop, and there shouldn’t be anyway

I dont even give mine water in the winter once it snows so.... Im not in alaska though either

 

[CKfarm22]

I dont even give mine water in the winter once it snows so.... Im not in alaska though either

I feel bad for them. See your 2 comments contradict eachother, you’re saying you care about your chickens more then most others but you don’t give them water if it snows?

 

[MeanCheek]

Now I'm really confused, but I think @Tundrawooky understands the coop is small

 

[BigBlueHen53]

You don't provide water to your chickens? And then you kill them because they are not laying eggs?

 

[CKfarm22]

You don't provide water to your chickens? And then you kill them because they are not laying eggs?

That’s what i’m saying. Two contradicting statements here. “live better then most i’ve seen” … “don’t give them water wants it starts snowing”

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Snow can be very dry. You can fill a pan with water, put it on the stove and heat it up, and end up with a very small amount of water. It is a VERY inefficient and inadequate way of getting moisture. You can literally freeze to death trying to "drink" snow.

 

[CKfarm22]

Snow can be very dry. You can fill a pan with water, put it on the stove and heat it up, and end up with a very small amount of water. It is a VERY inefficient and inadequate way of getting moisture. You can literally freeze to death trying to "drink" snow.

There is also no way they’re getting adequate hydration by eating snow Regardless if their livestock or not. I would care for mine really good until it was time.

 

[MeanCheek]

I do think no water is a little harsh, but @Poultrybonkers has been on BYC eleven years. Their birds always look healthy and and in pictures.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I do think no water is a little harsh, but @Poultrybonkers has been on BYC eleven years. Their birds always look healthy and and in pictures.

People be getting so triggered or course my birds get water in the winter yet they still prefer to eat the snow lol and the hens i processed where spent hens. But mine do not get heated bowls they would spill it within seconds