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More broody & baby pix taken this morning. We had to modify the set-up a bit. Lost a couple babies who got stuck in the wire.
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Hi Pennsylvania Land!
Out here in Ligonier 15658.
I have 5 brown egg near POL pullets I need to rehome as we downsize for winter.
They are all siblings. Hatched here, raised here, never sick. We have an NPIP number.
Should start laying this month. Some of them already are laying. Hatched April 1st,
15th and 28th. Lovely purebreds. If you missed the hatching season, lost hens to
varmints, just want to get started in poultry or need backyard "eye candy" , these girls
will do it. Gentle and curious. It cost me a lot more than the 15. each I am asking to
raise them to this age. They won't last long, don't be left out. My avatar is their dam.
Best,
Karen
 
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morf2540 said:
Hello Pennsylvania folks! We just got our first chickens this weekend, and we are very happy with our instant mini-flock. After reading and researching for months, I am suddenly hearing lots and lots during the past week about weasels. I didn't even know we had weasels in Pennsylvania. I have never seen one or heard anything about them. So the question is: do we have weasels in SE Pennsylvania, and is this something I need to be woried about (as if hawks, racoons, and rats aren't enough)? Thanks!
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Welcome!
 
Farmer Mike S said:
Does anyone from southeastern PA have any issues with their chickens and the cold weather? I'm wondering if I should take any precautions other than having a draft free coop
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I am wondering the samething! I love my girls and roo. But i worry about them getting to cold and something happening to them. Being my first winter with them is there anything else i can do for them?

Their coop is stuffed with straw, bedding and dry leaves. I have a thermometer in there and it has been reading about 3-5 degress above what my car and phone says in the am. I have all their windows closed and the vent at the top of the coop cracked for venting. Is it true that temp is not what matters that much its the drafts and wind that hurt them more?

Is there anyway to tell if your coop is to drafty?

Also my one hen and roo are silkies and i also have a sultan. They have feathers on their feet. I worry about them getting wet and freezing. Is there anything special about them or things you can do to help with this. Or do they do okay with it?
 
Brittany7 said:
I am wondering the samething! I love my girls and roo. But i worry about them getting to cold and something happening to them. Being my first winter with them is there anything else i can do for them?

Their coop is stuffed with straw, bedding and dry leaves. I have a thermometer in there and it has been reading about 3-5 degress above what my car and phone says in the am. I have all their windows closed and the vent at the top of the coop cracked for venting. Is it true that temp is not what matters that much its the drafts and wind that hurt them more?

Is there anyway to tell if your coop is to drafty?

Also my one hen and roo are silkies and i also have a sultan. They have feathers on their feet. I worry about them getting wet and freezing. Is there anything special about them or things you can do to help with this. Or do they do okay with it?
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I resisted responding hoping for an authoritarian response...my understandings are: to find if your breeds are winter hardy...next is to provide areas for the birds to perch off the ground....if its wet or frozen....LisaY is saving leaves to add to the pen if there's snow..(a good idea)...imho if your coop is full the birds will generate alot of BTUs...

Next is I have a bunch of 3wk old chicks...they get warmed by mama a few times a day but they are a lot tougher than you'd think...net sum is that birds would probably survive without me taking care of them....my two cents...
 
If chickens lived in the wild areas of PA..............if there were any really wild areas...............where would they go at night? at night in the winter?

I wonder where the other live animals go at night to stay warm?

I have chickens that are stated as winter hardy for this area....................I wonder if they would hunker down in some little corner ..............surrounded by a deep pile of leaves..........and naturally occurring wind blocks like logs or rocks or?????

Chickens must have survived prior to their domestication..................or use of little wooden shelters called coops.............

or maybe many died without the proper warmth?
 

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