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[hiddenacres]

has anybody here herd of the Endless mountain poultry association. If not we are a club in northeast pa and we do a lot of fun poultry related things. once a moth we have a meeting and there is a new website going up now but its 10 dollars a month. message me if you would like some more information.

Aaron

 

[chiques chicks]

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? 

I'm guessing much like wild Turkey, no not the drink, roost in heavy cover.
Last winter was mild, but other than a few damage combs, no problem. I don't coddle my birds, the find sheltered spots if they want to be outside. They don't like snow, but cold isn't a huge thing to them.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

has anybody here herd of the Endless mountain poultry association. If not we are a club in northeast pa and we do a lot of fun poultry related things. once a moth we have a meeting and there is a new website going up now but its 10 dollars a month. message me if you would like some more information.

Aaron

would like that kind of thing in my neck of the woods...can't really handle "monthly" fees though

I'm guessing much like wild Turkey, no not the drink, roost in heavy cover.
Last winter was mild, but other than a few damage combs, no problem. I don't coddle my birds, the find sheltered spots if they want to be outside. They don't like snow, but cold isn't a huge thing to them.

..let them be what they are...

, JMO though...unless they are your 'babies..pets"...then I do understand. I am on a roll with the foot & mouth dance

...Hope everyone is staying warm. Have a good night all!

 

[hiddenacres]

no its a yearly fee its $10 a year and monthly meetings

aaron

 

[Farmer Mike S]

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? 

I could be wrong but I believe chickens originate in Africa before they became domesticated. I know there's wild guineas in Africa

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Henry is on the strut today!!!

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Soooo pretty! After seeing (and hearing). Chiqueschicks turkey's, I have developed 'turkey envy'....Ahhh maybe next year.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

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? 

I think if chickens lived wild in PA that weather would be the least of their problems. I do not worry about the cold, I have several birds that roost outside the coop every night, rain, hail, snow, ect (in the run protected from predators but not weather) and they are fine. I just read a tip about feeding whole kernel corn just before dark for added warmth. The idea behind it is that the crop works through the night generating heat, don't know if it's true, just thought I'd throw it out there.

has anybody here herd of the Endless mountain poultry association. If not we are a club in northeast pa and we do a lot of fun poultry related things. once a moth we have a meeting and there is a new website going up now but its 10 dollars a month. message me if you would like some more information.

Aaron

Wish we had a Poultry Club closer. Seems like the closest one to me is Lebanon County, and that's a good hour n a half.

 

[barbiegirl]

has anybody here herd of the Endless mountain poultry association. If not we are a club in northeast pa and we do a lot of fun poultry related things. once a moth we have a meeting and there is a new website going up now but its 10 dollars a month. message me if you would like some more information.

Aaron

Where do you meet?

 

[SilkieSensation]

Henry is on the strut today!!!

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Soooo pretty! After seeing (and hearing). Chiqueschicks turkey's, I have developed 'turkey envy'....Ahhh maybe next year.

I have a trio of blue slates too but the hens are in with the chickens & tho tom is in quarantine until my npip lady comes this weekend to test him. I lost my tom to the heat toward the end of summer & had to replace him with a young boy I found at the Uniontown swap last month. He should be ready to do his thing by spring though.

 

[Brittany7]

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..

Yeah their coop is off the ground, I try to clean the poop out every couple days to make sure it stays dry in there. My coop is full, I have 8 birds and a 5 by 4.5 foot coop. It usually stays a couple degrees warmer in the coop then outside. My chickies have been cuddling together besides my silkie and sultan hen. They are the odd balls of the group. I cant get my Silkie hen to roost and sometimes Sultan will other times not. Sometimes my swedens will join them and not roost either....silly girls! I filled their run with leaves this weekend and I asked the guy that lives next to me if I could steal his leaves outta his yard he was happy to let me! (we have one tree that is not a evergreen! He has HUGE HUGE Maples!!) So i plan on bagging some of them up this weekend and storing for the winter. The girls loved it having them in their run, it was like kids on christmas morning ripping and digging through them. They were flying everywhere!

Chewie (sultan) and Puffball (silkie) Snuggled into their leave piles!

And Storm! Momma is getting bigger!!!

My little Chubby Momma!

We will be 6 weeks on Monday she goes to the vet to Tuesday for another health check up and to see how many pups we should be expecting and if everything is healthy and growing right !