NoodlesMama
Songster
This is our first winter with chickens and I want to cover all my bases. We currently have 17, mostly bantams, their coop is 8 feet deep by 4 feet wide by 5 feet high with corrugated plastic roof and wooden sides with ventilation well above the hens roosting boards. We also have a cozy coop panel heater mounted on the side wall. We are using the deep litter method so the floor lots of pine bedding. We are in south east Michigan and the temps are going to be in the teens the next few nights and this is just the beginning of our winter. Will they be warm enough or do we need to get on it and do more to keep them warm?
If it matters our standard size breeds are barred Plymouth rock chicken,Wyandotte, 3 Easter Eggers. our bantams include a Frizzled Cochin, Mottled Cochin, Millie Fluer d'Uccle, Porcelain d'Uccle, 2 Buff Brahma, and 6 Silkies. They range between about 4 months and 9 months. The silkies still sleep in a pile on the floor instead of on the roosts.
If it matters our standard size breeds are barred Plymouth rock chicken,Wyandotte, 3 Easter Eggers. our bantams include a Frizzled Cochin, Mottled Cochin, Millie Fluer d'Uccle, Porcelain d'Uccle, 2 Buff Brahma, and 6 Silkies. They range between about 4 months and 9 months. The silkies still sleep in a pile on the floor instead of on the roosts.