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Hello fellow NYer! I'm in the Finger Lakes. The winters are hard sometimes. The worst for me is the freezing of their water, we don't have electricity in our coop. We get creative with using heated rocks. As long as your coop is DRY and well ventilated, they should be fine. As our winters can be so cold, you might want to look into getting birds with low combs, as big combs can get frostbite. (My 2 cents: I do not find RIR to be nice birds!).
 
andreanar said:
As our winters can be so cold, you might want to look into getting birds with low combs, as big combs can get frostbite.
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I keep Leghorn hens, and I'm north of you two---they don't get much frostbite. All my single combed roosters do, though. I'm switching to pea, rose, and cushion combed breeds because I'm tired of having to monitor frozen combs and wattles every year.
 
BantyChooks said:
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I keep Leghorn hens, and I'm north of you two---they don't get much frostbite. All my single combed roosters do, though. I'm switching to pea, rose, and cushion combed breeds because I'm tired of having to monitor frozen combs and wattles every year.
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One of the reasons I have avoided leghorns! Those huge, floppy combs! Ugh, I can see myself worrying over them all winter!
 
andreanar said:
One of the reasons I have avoided leghorns! Those huge, floppy combs! Ugh, I can see myself worrying over them all winter!
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I guess I worry less about it than some because "combs get frostbite" was something I've known since I was a kid. They go black, they fall off, the bird recovers fine, and won't get it again, in general. Haven't had a bird die from frostbite on just headgear... did nearly lose one to frostbite on legs. Mea culpa---she was a young bantam. That was the first and last time I hatched birds in August. June is now my cutoff month for incubating.
 
andreanar said:
Hello fellow NYer! I'm in the Finger Lakes. The winters are hard sometimes. The worst for me is the freezing of their water, we don't have electricity in our coop. We get creative with using heated rocks. As long as your coop is DRY and well ventilated, they should be fine. As our winters can be so cold, you might want to look into getting birds with low combs, as big combs can get frostbite. (My 2 cents: I do not find RIR to be nice birds!).
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Here's a neat article on preventing water from freezing @R2elk did a nice job.
 

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