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me too! I cant help but think If I am freezing then they must be also. I know they arent, but if I put heat out there, and windblocks- it helps ME go out there and feed and water and collect eggs.
(thats funny- I havent gotten eggs in a long time.)
I use a radiator-type heater in the coop and I have an electric water bowl for the chickens and ducks, my tortoise has a pig blanket in his dog house. Its a hard orange platform meant for piglets to keep them warm after they are born. I used straw also in my tortoise doghouse every year, but this year my husband said no. He said that Bubba just pushes it out, and it makes a mess in the garage. (I will put straw in there this winter, or I will bring Bubba into the house, and then my husband will say: Put straw in the doghouse, I dont care, just get that tortoise out of here. See? Then it will be his idea).....
I have strawbales in a Fort Knox type set up to give the chickens and ducks somewhere to go where the wind won't and if they want to roost above the drifts, they can hop on top the straw.
me too! I cant help but think If I am freezing then they must be also. I know they arent, but if I put heat out there, and windblocks- it helps ME go out there and feed and water and collect eggs.
(thats funny- I havent gotten eggs in a long time.)
I use a radiator-type heater in the coop and I have an electric water bowl for the chickens and ducks, my tortoise has a pig blanket in his dog house. Its a hard orange platform meant for piglets to keep them warm after they are born. I used straw also in my tortoise doghouse every year, but this year my husband said no. He said that Bubba just pushes it out, and it makes a mess in the garage. (I will put straw in there this winter, or I will bring Bubba into the house, and then my husband will say: Put straw in the doghouse, I dont care, just get that tortoise out of here. See? Then it will be his idea).....
I have strawbales in a Fort Knox type set up to give the chickens and ducks somewhere to go where the wind won't and if they want to roost above the drifts, they can hop on top the straw.