Trying to raise chicken's in northern Minnesota

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BullChick said:
:welcome You don’t need a heated coop (heat is not recommended), but winter eggs are great. Because the girls are young, they aren’t going through a winter molt. That comes next year. Therefore, they have the energy to lay eggs.

*Heat is dangerous because fires happen. Also, if you lose power, the girls won’t be acclimated to the cold. Even in MN, chickens can handle the cold.
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Thank You great advice, I truly appreciate it, the coop was just moved there last fall and is still under construction, insulated from recycled materials. I put plastic over the insulation and cardboard over that it helped tremendously plus banked snow around the outside etc. Just left the coop 7°outside now and no ice on the water and gave them all cracked corn. 20200204_154544.jpg
 
Shadrach said:
Hello The Christian chicken Man.
Welcome to BYC from The Atheist Roosterist.:)
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Thank You for your greeting, I've been trying to Thank everyone for welcoming me and I feel like a one armed man rowing up stream, running incubators and chores cattle, goats, chickens,dogs and cats. We've got 3 incubators running as I type this. 48 Pekin duck eggs, 54 assorted chicken from Texas, Wisconsin and Minnesota. And 54 eggs from the flock here today is day 14 gonna candle for the 2nd time tomorrow. Anyway trying to explain why getting back to people has taken so long. Thank You once again for Your welcoming,best wishes.
 
Hi! :frow Welcome to BYC! Wow! You have a lot going on!!!

Might I suggest changing the additional lighting to the mornings instead of the evenings? It might be stressful for them when the lights suddenly go out at night and it's pitch black, plus they might actually have hopped down off the roost, and then it gets suddenly dark and they can't see to get back up. Much better to have the light come on in the morning. :)
 

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