Idaho?

[Daloorashens]

Well, its only $2 for 20 more lbs. I drive all the way from Rexburg to get it. What is the protein % in the stuff from Jack Thomas?

Jack Thomas is 16% layer feed... sometimes they have 20% for meat birds, but didn't last time I went...

Cool pics kem!!!

 

[Robbo]

Idaho, typically Meridian / Idaho, how do your chickens do in the winter? I wont be able to have a heat source ran out there... but I heard they do just fine with a coop to go into at night? Is this true?

 

[Robbo]

Idaho, typically Meridian / Idaho, how do your chickens do in the winter? I wont be able to have a heat source ran out there... but I heard they do just fine with a coop to go into at night? Is this true?

Sorry, I meant Meridian / Boise

 

[thebirdguy]

As long as they can stay dry, out of drafts and have time to acclimate through the fall, they will be fine.. I have never put heat on adult birds in 42 years....

Are you coming over to the Rocky Mountain Chickenstock on May 4th?

 

[Robbo]

As long as they can stay dry, out of drafts and have time to acclimate through the fall, they will be fine.. I have never put heat on adult birds in 42 years....

Are you coming over to the Rocky Mountain Chickenstock on May 4th?

I am not sure what that is?

Edited: Op! Found it in your signature, looking through it now.

 

[Mo5C]

Idaho, typically Meridian / Idaho, how do your chickens do in the winter? I wont be able to have a heat source ran out there... but I heard they do just fine with a coop to go into at night? Is this true?

My flock didn't have a heat source and they did fine. Well except one of my roosters, but he had other issues wrong with him. Like birdguy said, as long as they have a place to be warm, dry and free of drafts they will be fine.

 

[BeccaSmith]

Idaho, typically Meridian / Idaho, how do your chickens do in the winter? I wont be able to have a heat source ran out there... but I heard they do just fine with a coop to go into at night? Is this true?

I am in Meridian and I do not provide a heat source during the winter either, just a nice dry draft free coop!

 

[Daloorashens]

I will ditto everybody else on the heat, I did not heat, they need a draft-free place... My Marans roo got a little frostbite with the -18 temps we had, but I put bag balm on it and he really hasn't lost much of it, just the tips of his comb...

I just found out the elevator in Firth just has crumbles in their 100# bag... hmmm... I prefer the pellets, don't seem to get as much waste.. maybe I'll go get a bag and try mixing it with the pellets??

 

[BackYardChknLvr]

I am in boise, and i was worried all wintert about heat sorce cause i had 2 chickens that would never go in the coop they kept roosting on top of the coop all winter and they did just fine, but also there coop is inside a 10x10x10 dog run and i lined all the outside of the dog run with tarps and on top of the cage i have a big ole pice of PVC pipe and some boards and tarp over them so the snow stayed out but barely any wind got in the dog run for the girls that didnt ever want to go in the coop and they did pritty good, i just kept fresh Dry straw all winter in there coop and in the dog run and it helped insulate heat in there that i noticed..

 

[lilwhispers]

Our city council met tonight and read an chicken ordinance for review,

The ordinance they read tonight went as follows:

5 hens NO ROOSTERS
Permit required to be purchased at city hall for $10 per bird
Proof of Vaccines
10 ft set back from neighbors property line
Coop up to 32 sq ft (4x8) and no taller than 5 ft
1/4 mile buffer from any commercial hatchery capable of hatching more than 1 million chicks yearly

They voted to table the ordinance till next meeting on 4-16-13 they will vote on it then.