Growing up in Kansas, I always had a heat lamp for my chickens in the winter and never worried about the fire risk, even though I knew there was one. I always made sure the heat lamp was secured and clean. I am so thankful my parents let me have pet chickens--fantastic therapists! Sweet Cinnamon! I had a chicken that lived to be 13 years old and her name was Amber :)
Seriously your so cool....I never even thought about them being therapist!!! Soon will be getting them and am very happy, thanks for sharing..... again, I am not being a jokester with you!
@@amberwilkerson8091 Hi Amber, I'm not born and raised but I've lived in Kansas for over ten years now. We're getting our first flock in a few weeks, and I am ecstatic and a nervous wreck!
I live in NE WI. It gets 50 below here at least one week of every winter.... I've never heated my coop... Tho one year I turned two heat lamps on it was between 60 & 70 below with the wind chill... I did not loose any chickens... And no one got sick... My roosters did loose the tips of their combs... I do use electric water... I feed Amish mash feed dry in the winter....
We live in SoCal and also offer our pet poultry forever homes. They earn a retirement by laying eggs and their cheery nature. We have had chickens live 14+ years, and geese 22+ years. 🙂
I live in Sweden and we often have like -15℃ (= 5.000000℉), sometimes below 20 or even colder. The trick is to have a smaller, isolated, well ventilated house, with a lot of chickens inside. Chickens give away around 10-15 watt each. So with 30 chickens you get the room heated very quickly. And from their own bodies. I even had newborns in the cold room for a night or 2, before i discovered them, and took them inside the house. None dead so far. The heat in the summer is much worse, because the hens can't sweat, so they can't cool themselves off. In the winter we use wooden shavings in the bottom of the hensnest and hay on top of that. We also cover the floor in the same way. I never had any problems with any of my chickens getting freezemarks or anything.🙂
I live in the cold north (Wisconsin). I never supplement heat. My chickens lived through the polar vortex when temps dropped to -35F and I didn't lose any chickens to the cold. Make sure they have good shelter and feed them whole corn in the winter.
@@nttnylion it helps keep them warm when they're digesting it. But my chickens won't eat whole corn, so I'm trying to figure out how to chop it up a little.
In Canada we can get 175 watts red heat bulbs that they're hard, way more solid than the cheap 250 bulbs that shatters at nothing (those are popular and dangerous)
I am thrilled I found your channel. I have 6 girls in central NY and you’ve given me So many great ideas and you’re so much fun to watch thank you so much for doing this! ❣️🤗
Glad I watched this before my girls are old enough to be outside. I was thinking about using a lamp in their coop during winter months. I had a pretty solid securing method in mind, but the one thing I did not account for was dust. This is why we must always do our research so thank you. You just saved 5 lives from a potential serious danger. Definitely won't be using the lamp in the coop. I have plenty of other options. That said, if anyone is watching this and needs help affording those low risk heaters, hi I'm here to help. Idc how old this comment is when your reading it. If you are in dire need of a heater, let me know. Just call me mama hen helping all my lil chicks in need 💛 absolutely love the chicken community :)
Hi! Im curious this is my first year owning chickens. They are only 8 weeks old and I live in Massachusetts and we get really cold weather. I was just wondering what you ended up using to make the coop warmer for winter?
Hi Mama hen. We're having many nights below freezing here already. Mr. T, Gladys and Myrtle might like that. They are about a year old, and this is my first coop (was the Cogburn family my first dead give-away? lol) I had the heat lamp all set up. I went back out there because I couldn't relax due to the potential danger and put it away. The low risk is the only one worth taking.
@@stephl457 ok so hear me out. Pine pellets. Wet them w spray bottle so they expand, but not fully expand. This helps them hold heat a bit better, add layer of shavings (skip this step if you have ducks), straw, and cozy coop heater if needed. Oh also feed them about an hour before they go to sleep, this helps keep warmth when they go into the nesting boxes. Typically though, if you ensure your breeds are all cold hardy, they won't rlly need supplemented heat. Even w the younger ones, I raise outside unless there's some rlly bad weather. I have a spare coop that we found on marketplace that we use as a medical coop. Babies and mom go in the closed area w nesting boxes, roosts, walls, and a sliding door, and my older flock members stay in the run section during the day to meet the babies, and then into their coop at night. After 8 weeks, let them all back together and they do just fine. If you're worried ab pecking order tho, use a dog crate inside the coop and leave the new birds in there for 24-48 hrs then release. Hope this helps and apologies for the late reply.
My chicken named Cinnamon snuck out in the woods every day and layed an egg in her hiding spot. I ended up getting 17 baby chickens she hatched out in the woods. I love your chickenlandia videos.
Mrs President, I absolutely loved this video. You are spot on & you are funny! I live in upper Michigan . I just moved here, but not a 1st timer to chickens. I will be starting my chicken coop soon. Your advice is very good. I just wanted to let you know I loved your video. Keep up the great work!
We’re planning our 1st chickens for next Spring - and you are my go-to info source in this endeavor. We live in south Mid TN, so winters here are generally mild . Even though we are situating the coop and run close-ish to the house, it would still require some strategy to string electrics to that area. I feel so much relief after watching this. Ps … your funny quip about the chicken groups 😂 I thought my knitting groups were psycho 🤦🏻♀️ … I will stick to your knowledge and all-around 100% friendly nature going forward 🐣
Congrats neighbor! This is my first winter with my small flock of 6 beautiful girls! I was surprised here in zone 7A with the early freezes and frozen water for the girls. I thought maybe in January that might be an issue but not Oct/Nov. You will love your girls when you finally have them and wonder how you ever lived without chickens in your life! All issues will be worked out so don’t stress. Build your coop and go for it! Glad to hear coop will be close to your house. It will make the electrics issue easy enough to fix. I’m just using a thick extension cord from my back patio’s outdoor outlet. Best Wishes!
Backyard chickens: It's 10/29/22 today and I'm 10 months in with my 4 Chickies. They are super friendly and don't mind being picked up for petting. For the last 3 months I have pretty much averaged 4 eggs a day! I built a 8x5x6 foot coop that is 60 percent wire. I'm in Oregon and it's Fall season and the temperature went from 90/68 degrees F daily, to all the sudden like a light switch, it became rainy 58/33 degrees F. So, I'm on here educating myself with more practice knowledge, to make sure I know what I'm doing and was worried about the cold/freezing temperatures right around the corner. I learned quite a bit and was entertained the entire time watching your video. You're good at what you're doing, fun personality and helping us newbies understand or learn better. Thanks a bunch!!
How did your chickens hold up? I would say through a heavy duty tarp over their Coop, and use pine flakes like a thick layer of it with zeolite spell dry to absorb moisture cuz that's what really makes them cold as the moisture, and you can put a moving blanket on the top of the heavy-duty tarp and then another tarp to keep them insulated.
We use a dog house heater for our coop that works well it is placed on the opposite side of the coop from where they lay and roast. That way if they need more its available and the coop overall is warmer than the outside.
Amen I live in Abilene, I was hot, we from 80’s to 26! Boy, it was first freezing cold! My hubby put insulation board over holes and I have a heat light safe distance over perches, cuz I have frizzles that are moulting, poor dears. I have been chicken owner for 55 years and used common sense with heat lights! Never had a problem with heat lights! I have deep litter on ground. We had ice and 26 temp for our first freeze! Ugh! The coop stayed dry and draft free, The girls did great! The oldest is 4 years!
I know this is a touchy subject. But I do not provide my chickens with heat because if the power goes out for a few days your chickens will die. They have not been acclimated to the cold and the sudden dive into cold when the heat goes out will kill them. I focus on keeping them dry and out of the wind.
Had chickens for 50 plus years. We have some very cold Winters here. No draft and not to tight so they have some air flow..as you say ventilation is the key!!! Ask yourself......What came first..THE CHICKEN OR ELECTRICITY??? Great video.
Too many people on UA-cam saying they don't need supplimental heat. I tried that and had some frozen combs. Got a cozy coop and all is well.. Gets to be -40 here often and heat is needed if in the backyard chicken coop type setup in places like where I live. Also supplimental light is required unless you are happy with no eggs for 6 months of the year. I LOVE YOUR VIDEO!
Mom just asked if she could buy me the Cozy Coop heater for my girls for Christmas, I said YESS!! Looking forward to it and hopefully I wont need a water bowl heater which she also offered to buy but I told her I thought this would help with issue in their coop with the water freezing, and she just had a dog get a hip replacement this week so I wanted to save her $ if it wasn’t necessary. I’m adding clear plastic around the outside of their coop run, then they have an open 8x8 run and recently began free ranging the backyard through out the day going back and forth. These are some happy girls at 19 weeks now! Watching closely for my first egg! 😊
A heat source I have is an electric mat ( for starting young seeds in the cold months) in one of my brooding boxes. It’s hardly warm to the touch, but when it’s Wisconsin Cold, it’s a cozy spot.
I'm a first time chicken parent getting ready for a Canadian winter. This was really helpful! (I'm also an XFiles fan and appreciate the representation)
I bring my 2, I only have 2 chickens in at night. I have a huge dog kennel that fits my king shepherd in it I took a big tree branch from outside and I put it across the inside where they roost at night they have food and water also in there and I feel safe and content knowing they're safe and in the morning I put them out to their chicken coop and to the backyard to free range with the cats and dogs. We all live in harmony
I've been watching you for over a year now. I love your videos by the way! I have learned so much from you! My favorite thing about your chicken coop and yard is your prayer Flags. Besides all the cute chickens:-).
I live in the far South of Alaska not up in the Arctic. We rarely go below zero here. I have hens that can take the cold they have small combs and my coop is small 4X10 for seven chickens and completely insulated with no doors or windows facing the North. I have a row of vents up high and one small exit door to yard and then the entrance door for me. There is also a window that can open facing East. It's very dry inside as I use sand on the wood floor and scoop out all the poop twice a day. Mine are not laying at all for weeks now. I have supplemental light during the day and a heated water container inside too. Very nice video and I like all the frames you are wearing.
I ha e had my chickens for years .. I ha e honestly never used a heat lamp for my chickens even in the dead of winter in ohio... They never have had a problem
Hey Ms President, LOL, I have one chicken almost 20 yrs and 3 that are almost 15. I was vegetarian and ate eggs, now I'm vegan and don't, but that's ok, they are so old they don't lay. I've always used the red lamps when the temps are below 30°. I'm going to check out the alternatives because I hadn't thought about their age and I can leave it on all the time. Thank you.
My girls are doing well in the barn and garage. I have a small group the goes high up in the upperbarn. The roosters have bits of frostbite on the Combs. It's rural farm life.
I am using a heat lamp for the coup and it's been 0 degrees here in Pueblo Colorado. I can't bring them inside. They go down in their run and eat then go back upstairs to get warm. So far they look good. The little prairie chicken is inside in a dog kennel. Now I am at the part about the heat lamp. It's all I have and without it, they would freeze. Hope all goes well. The suggestion about using hot peppers is interesting. I think I will try it. 😬😬😬🤗
Use a ceramic heater not a heat lamp and buy a cheap timer, set it up to come up a couple times starting with before they go imside and put it avobe the bedding a few inches.
Thank you for the great info! We also live in Seattle and worried about the upcoming random temp drop to 10 degrees 😬 we have two 8 year olds and 6 year old in a small coop any last minute advice to prepare ❄️
Depending on the breed they should be fine but if you only have three there's no harm in bringing them in the garage or another area that is a little warmer than outside for the night!
Im resisting the urge to move all of my chickens into the house after that cold front last night! It's not supposed to get cold in Texas! Stay warm and have a great day chicken fam
Right? I used to live in Texas and I found that it was either melting, ice, or tornado haha (just kidding). I'm from Duncanville, just outside of Dallas.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Haha! Yes exactly and Im on the coast so hurricanes too. We have a hurricane coming now can you believe it? Thats amazing you're from Texas I had a bunch of friends from Duncanville! We spent the summer in London, England when we were all 16-17 years old. I knew there was something special I liked about you!
Our temps seldom drop below the high 40s, so we use translucent fortified tarps that allow some indirect sunlight into the chicken-wire-over-chain link sides of their 8*17 foot run. With some translucent tarps inside as baffling. The roof is three layers of tarp. And still, sometimes I wonder if they're warm enough. After watching this, and seeing what others do in colder climate zones... I'll worry less.
Amen I live in Abilene and boy it was cold! My hubby put insulation board over holes and I have a heat light down low over perches, cuz I have frizzles that are mounting poor dears. We had ice and 26 temp for our first freeze! The girls did great!
It’s great that you really love sharing your experience with Chickens. I enjoyed the video. Looking forward to seeing my own reds and dominickers walking around soon.
10:23 One of my personal favs is " Is the juice worth the squeeze". You got a shout out from jeff @ bobblehead homestead. Didn't need winter tips since i also live in deep south, but no such thing as over informed.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia so far ive learned how to ferment feed and how to make a kitty litter box into a dust bath. shame you told secret of verm-x, its almost doubled in price.
South Mississippi getting hit with some single digits this week. Covered openings on the north side of my coop, leaving others open for ventilation. Added a thick layer of ryegrass hay to my hemp bedding. My coop is three feet off the ground which adds to my run space. I wrapped the underside of my coop to create a windbreak for my girls when they’re out in the run. Added a nice layer of chopped pine straw to the run to give a little extra protection for their feet. They get a nice meal of mixed grains with some sardines mixed in just before roost time to feed that internal furnace. I thought I had it all figured out, but then I realized that I had overlooked the frozen water issue. Had to change out their water every hour throughout the day due to freezing. But my girls are happy and safe!!
This will be my first winter in Western New York with chickens. Previously had chickens in South Florida. I was concerned at first but have been confirming what I had already thought about. Thank you for continuing to be a great resource for chicken keepers of all kinds. I am a retired vet tech and experienced chicken keeper but there is always something new to learn. ♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🐔🐥🤓 Oops forgot to ask can you put up a link to your heated bowls?🤭
@@WelcometoChickenlandia so funny because I went on Amazon before you put up the link and bought the exact same bowl, it looked like yours and had good reviews!😂
I think you need to bring your chickens in when it gets below ten degrees. I have the sweeter heater which my chickens love, my coop is insulated and the pen is covered with plastic and tarps. I have 5 cold-hardy speckled Sussex hens that go down to the basement on the cold days. We live in Maine and there are many subzero days. The ground is frozen and snow covered for a good part of the winter and into spring so they are not missing too much. My goal for next winter is to figure out how to make it a little more of a chicken paradise so that they do not miss the outdoors. I love watching Chickenlandia. It's so fun! Thank you.
I've had chickens in a drafty coop at -40F for a whole week and they survived, but all my eggs would crack and the roosters combs would freeze and get all bloody and nasty. This year I'm using three Dietz kerosene lanterns in the coop, they look so cool! I got the idea from one of the big hatcheries, they had photos of their coops and they used lots of lanterns. And they put off a lot of heat. Now I'm working on lining the walls with cardboard to keep the drafts out, hoping with enough insulation I can cut down to just one lantern. I have 37 birds in a 10 x 10 shed that I built from wood from my sawmill, pretty cool setup. Now all the birds want to stay in with the lanterns at night, they like the heat and no more cracked eggs!
I always put heat lamp with my baby chicks and also hang it from the top where it's secure so they won't knock it down also in the big chicks Coupe. I did it for 6 years and it was good and yes I was concerned about fire too but I make sure that heat lamp is very secure so they won't knock it down and keep it away from anything that's going to cause 🔥
I'm so glad you share the content that you do. The chicken groups are something else, for sure. I live in a mild climate and don't have to use supplemental heat for my girls. When they get to be more "mature" ladies I might but I'll probably do like you and bring them inside where they can be comfortable. You're such a great source of knowledge! thank you!
I subscribed cause you are so cute and funny ... you crack me up... I have chickens and live in Florida ... we have heat problems with chicken here...lol. But they do survive.. and ventilation is very important here for air flow to keep them cool when inside the closed up chicken house
I'm so glad I found your channel, this spring will be my first year with chickens, and I'm doing all the research I can. Your videos are very informative, thank you 😊
I've been so nervous for my chickens. I know they can handle the cold just fine if they're acclimated, but mine were/are still young and it's their first winter, and we went from 90s to 30s back up to 80s within less than a week not long ago! Then we had to evacuate them due to fires, then they got snow! It's been a wild ride for the babies...
I also have 2 chick in Pakistan. in winter I put them in room and put them in a box with holes on box and put food and water and cover box and close all doors and Windows of the home. Btw love from Pakistan.
Hello… Ive got 7 Polish chickens which Ive read are not as cold hardy as other breeds… I have them in a 7x7 resin shed using deep litter method..but I just started it, and it takes a while to get it composting & creating heat. I wanted to be ready for unusually cold nights so I purchased a 40” Sweeter Heater (you mentioned) which is an infra red radiant heater and an Ink Bird programmable thermostat with wi-fi built in…I can remotely, from my house, select the target temp & the differential (number of degrees it drops below the target temp before it kicks on the heater). I want to mention I have it programmed to not be on above freezing (32°F) so my Polish remain cold acclimated but it gives a little reprieve on very cold nights. Our winter has just started and next week it will be around 10°F at night for several days in a row & it sometimes drops below 0°F. Could my chicken’s be ok without the heater?…probably…but I do have good ventilation and with the heater running all night it only raises the coop temp by 6 degrees. I think that there needs to be more discussion on how people heat their hen houses when they do decide to add supplemental heat. I really like my set-up because it takes the edge off without warming the coop to above freezing temperatures. I like your channel and your friends ch. Bock Bock Bouquet…. Keep up the good work Pres!…😁❤️🇺🇸
Thanks for the info. We get extremely cold here. We insulted the coop like a house, then put the cozy coop heater in there. X3. We have 15 chickens and 2 roosters. I will have to ask my husband how big our coop is. We are hoping that it will stay warm enough. We get down to -35 degrees F or even lower. This is our first winter with our chickens. Wish us luck.
Mountain Living Homestead i am in Kansas and it go cold this week. I use to bag my leaves and pile the black bags around the run,they absorbved heat during the day, but I found out it made a nice house for mice, so I had a ceramic fan and heater, I work nights so I would just turn the heater on from 11pm to 1am, but I got tired of it, I decided not to use leaves or hay, I use a very thin layer of mulch, I dont do deep litter I clean it 1 a week, my run is fill with sand I bougth a timer and tested it inside the house, it comes on 4 times a night for 30 minutos at the time, my life is so much easier, I rise the heater in a piece of wood of the mulch, I heat up at 2pm before I leve, then at 6pm when there is nobody home, then at 11pm nd at 4am, by then we are home and I can hear trough the baby monitor I have inside, really there is only 1 risky time at 7pm, I feed them corn before I leave, if cold night I make them oatmeal with little pieces of meat or egg or cheese/bacon etc, I also put the pulverize eggshels in it serve hot, or if I have soup bones with fat, I warm them up and serve them in a ceramic plater.
@@mountainlivinghomestead429 you want the heather blowing to circulate air and dry out moisture, during the day maybe run as afan for a bit to dry poop, avoid hay or shredded paper beding see if you could use mulch.
Going into this extreme cold I have a heat lamp high in the converted milk house. But I need to address the frost covering all of the cinderblock walls. Deep litter is helping and heated water bowl helps.
Best video overall on the topic I found. Funny how you brought them in when it gets below 32 though. It’s been a very mild winter until this point where I’m at in northern MN. Right now it’s -35 actual temp -60s wind chill. 2/15/21. Ive considered that radiant heater.. but I really have my doubts on it. Would it even work in this cold? The deep litter method only works in spring and fall up here. The poop freezes like a rock before it hits the ground in the winter here.
Oh my goodness, that's cold! If you want to use the heater, it really just needs to keep it above -15 if you can. Really depends on your coop size, etc. I bring the old ladies in because for us, less than 30 is cold LOL. If they were acclimated to colder temps I bet they would withstand more.
I have two very spoiled chickens. At night I carry them into my garage and put them in a very large dog crate . Then I turn on a small electric heater to take chill out of garage. ( not close to chickens) I turn off the heater before I go to bed. The heater is activated at a certain temperature, but I still unplug it. The lowest temperature we ever get is middle 30s, and even then, rarely.
Me personally always provide heat in my coop for my chickens. A red light for their or a small heater for them. I put hay in their coop to also keep them warm.
I use the producers Pride chicken coop heater and brooder. It keeps my coop around 40 when it is 20 outside. I also keep my feeder and water inside the coop so it does not freeze.
Jeff from Bobblehead Homestead said to check out your channel, so I did. I absolutely love you and your videos. I live near Olympia WA and though I don't have any chickens yet I would like to get some when I am able to make a safe place for them. Perhaps someday I will have some of my own but until then I watch the videos of others that I enjoy. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
My cats had a bed that had a heating pad in it. You can buy the heating pads on Amazon for around $10. A couple of those would really help on a wood night perch they could all huddle on. And each one uses the power of a couple night lights....very low. Zero fire risk. Just install it so the chickens cannot get to it and peck it apart.
The chicken kennel, run I have in front of your coop… do u have a link for that? It’s the right size and I can seem to find one like it. Thanks for all you teach me!
I live in Cheyenne Wyoming right now we are at Sub-Zero - 2. Fahrenheit that is. Very cold most my chickens are fine. I have two that won't be fine they molted late in the season cuz it stayed hot out. They don't have any feathers. So I bring those two in but I put seedling mats underneath my water bowl and my food dish. And then I put one underneath the egg boxes. To keep the eggs from freezing. Three seasons later and it hasn't been a problem at all
This is definitely in my #Playlist AZ winters are dangerous at night and early morning hours, then heats up all day unless it's cloudy. I have had chicks die by morning and it was heartbreaking. You have helped me keep the 9 I have left and I am grateful . #Thank you for all the wonderful tips and techniques. This my 1st time raising live chickens and they all have personalities of their own. #Keepupthegreatwork I am staying tuned.
Deep litter..composting requires moisture, so, there’s a trade off there..in a damp area, you’d have a wet coop. I’m brand new..literally waiting for eggs and chicks, coop is built. Run is built. I’m wanting to run electricity for lights, warm water, maybe, maybe heat but low watt passive heat. Perhaps only a couple hours a day to bring above freezing.
You definitely will not regret running electricity. I waited forever to do that and water freezing is such a PAIN. Good luck with your new chicken adventure!
John Cspine, avid deep litter and put a heater not a heat lamp heater like for a room at your house, if posible have sand in the coop floor, cuts down the chances of fire but you have to scoop it out at lest 1 a week, buy. Heated water bowl and put you heater in a timer so it don't run all the time. In the roost if is avobe use mulch, dont fly out as easy s hay.Hen posible if the chickens are out run the heater as a fan during the day for an hour or so to move the air and dry the 💩
GREAT VIDEO, Great advice, ....! I have had poultry, all kinds of critters,.... since 8,... now 72, retired zoo keeper. CHICKENS are now my passion, cause, can't handle a lot of hoofstock ETC. Anymore. I have SERAMA, to buckeyes, WYANDOTTES, Dutch, SEBRIGHTS, DOMINIKERS...... Dominiques... .. never thought of putting my fermented FEED in HEATED DOG bowls....... DUH....IM IN THE ADIRONDACK ...MOUNTAINS UPSTATE N.Y.... we can have Brutally cold weather....... thanks again. NEW subscriber.... like to see, all your different breeds.... I'm they same way.. I love em all......
Love your videos, thank you. I live in Georgia usually not to cold but the last few nights got in the 20s. I put up a poultry sweeter heater last week, I think I like it. I notice you have Seramas in a mixed flock. I have 7 grown hens of different varieties and just got 6 teenage pullets I’m slowly introducing (wow it’s a challenge). I have 2 Serama pullets ordered for a month from now, do they need additional heat? Also, any suggestions on how to introduce them?
I don’t think you will need additional heat for the Seramas, depending on their age. It will be a challenge to integrate them so you need to go REALLY slow. This video may help: ua-cam.com/video/MTSs0SLioG8/v-deo.html
awwww you can tell you love your little guys, and I do love the ducks too, they are so cute. My chickens i have are all designed to tolerate ohio winters I built a shed coop with open front mostly, ventilation along the upper edge, and I cover the sides (where I usually keep open for the summer) either with a window or curtain inside, to keep that draft out, but it is certainly not retaining a ton of heat, I good book I read is a green book called open front coops (open fresh air coops) had alot of good pointers in coop designe to avoid all those nasties you mentioned. also I do not supplement but if I do I had read about the radiant heaters that are safer my coop like yours is very close tothe house, those heaters I used for the babies are now being recycled as heaters for my little green house. since I had used them for a while and had no problems of blow ups or anything like that (and I double hang them for safty)they are doing just fine in my mini greenhouses I built around my baby magnolias. they have a nice covered run, and they get mad at me sometimes because I wont let them free range, which is just do dangerous no place to hide with leaves and the hawks have been coming around daily (I know hte chickens let me know). they will be out in the spring when the shrubs and plants start to leaf out and it is warm enough for me to stay out there working and watching them to I just enjoy the heat and sunshine of spring and just want to stay out all day.
Just let you know I love the way u take care of your flock!! Okay I was incubating 48 chickens I had a power outage for two and a half days I was able to take the trays to corner store cuz I didn't have a generator ☹️! Had one hatch!! Fuzz! 🤣🤣 Raised by himself in the house with five pitbulls 😂😂😂!! he goes out to the chicken house in the morning be with his women but he's ready to come in at night and get in his cage 🤣🤣 and 6:00 on the dime he tells me 😂😂😂 and he's the head of the pitbulls 🤣🤣🤣 I wish I could send you some pictures or some videos of them
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Yes , he's here!! He gets mad when I wake before him? 😂 But when somebody comes to the door back door he don't bark but he gets upset the dogs are barking and he's like crazy Boy 🤣🤣
@@WelcometoChickenlandia I'm just a small time farmer too northern Michigan have two steers a Tom hen two steers and about 60 layers !! I live alone with my mother that says it all
Hh, I've ended up with two chicks in our house until next summer. It gets quite cold here during winter. I have a flock of 11 (not counting the two chickies) 1 old De'Uccle, 2 old De'Anvers, and 8 seramas. Seramas are the smallest breed of chicken and don't do well in the cold. So, I give them hot water in their coop. It's very well ventilated and I've never had issues with humidity. That and the fact that their coop is a little on the smaller side (big enough for them to be comfortable. They have a secure run so during the hotter months I don't lock them in the coop) help keep my birds warm. I love waking up in the morning to see the water in the coop still.. well.. water even though everything outside is frozen.
During the ice storm here in tx, I ran hot water bottles (we had natural gas water heater) during the blackouts. Every 2 to 3 hours I was replacing the bottles. Alot of ppl lost birds during the storm and blackouts. My birds did ok, and I didn't loose any,but I did end up with 3 frostbite cases on waddles. I try and keep one heat lamp in the quad(4 connected 8x8 coops) to keep my quackers warm. I keep one in the roosting run, and a couple in the brooder barn. It gives them a warm spot if they need it, but it is optional for them. Mostly they do fine, but I have had duck problems a couple of times, especially if we had a wet snow.(yes it does snow in tx lol) thankfully I now have rooves on everything, so there shouldn't be any snow covered critters this year...last year I had JUST moved and didn't have a roof on the quad and was throwing every scrap peice of wood,old doors and rusty tin I could find on top of all the coops and the quad.
Being in Michigan I know that I have to buy cold hardy chickens. I also buy chicks in the spring (middle of April) because Michigan can still be cold in May and of course for fall and winter I have to make sure they are full grown to withstand temperature change. We never supplement heat because we make sure we are prepared for the age of the baby chicks and type of chickens we buy. We have woken up to electricity going out so that is a huge reason why we dont do it too. We bought a shed and put insulation up (left vents at the top open of course) so the coop is hopefully warm enough for them and we also have our perches where they can easily lay on their feet to keep them warm by laying the 2×4s flat so they are laying on the 4 inch part... I hope that is ok for them as I have done research on it and a lot say its good but some say its not and chickens like "branch" type sizes to roost on.
Growing up in Kansas, I always had a heat lamp for my chickens in the winter and never worried about the fire risk, even though I knew there was one. I always made sure the heat lamp was secured and clean. I am so thankful my parents let me have pet chickens--fantastic therapists! Sweet Cinnamon! I had a chicken that lived to be 13 years old and her name was Amber :)
Awww I love that!! Thirteen is amazing!
Seriously your so cool....I never even thought about them being therapist!!!
Soon will be getting them and am very happy, thanks for sharing..... again, I am not being a jokester with you!
I use heat pads these days. My grow out pen has those in it. I just have to pull them out every so often and clean it.
Love this comment. Born and raised in Kansas, 32 now and just got my first flock of 25. This will be my first winter and I'm nervous as heck!!!
@@amberwilkerson8091 Hi Amber, I'm not born and raised but I've lived in Kansas for over ten years now. We're getting our first flock in a few weeks, and I am ecstatic and a nervous wreck!
I live in NE WI. It gets 50 below here at least one week of every winter.... I've never heated my coop... Tho one year I turned two heat lamps on it was between 60 & 70 below with the wind chill... I did not loose any chickens... And no one got sick... My roosters did loose the tips of their combs... I do use electric water... I feed Amish mash feed dry in the winter....
We live in SoCal and also offer our pet poultry forever homes. They earn a retirement by laying eggs and their cheery nature. We have had chickens live 14+ years, and geese 22+ years. 🙂
Yay!!! I love it. ❤️🐔❤️
I love those glasses!
I live in Sweden and we often have like -15℃ (= 5.000000℉), sometimes below 20 or even colder.
The trick is to have a smaller, isolated, well ventilated house, with a lot of chickens inside.
Chickens give away around 10-15 watt each. So with 30 chickens you get the room heated very quickly. And from their own bodies.
I even had newborns in the cold room for a night or 2, before i discovered them, and took them inside the house. None dead so far.
The heat in the summer is much worse, because the hens can't sweat, so they can't cool themselves off.
In the winter we use wooden shavings in the bottom of the hensnest and hay on top of that. We also cover the floor in the same way.
I never had any problems with any of my chickens getting freezemarks or anything.🙂
I live in the cold north (Wisconsin). I never supplement heat. My chickens lived through the polar vortex when temps dropped to -35F and I didn't lose any chickens to the cold. Make sure they have good shelter and feed them whole corn in the winter.
Nice!!
I feed mine whole corn. No heat in barn
Why whole corn?
@@nttnylion it helps keep them warm when they're digesting it. But my chickens won't eat whole corn, so I'm trying to figure out how to chop it up a little.
@@tabp8448 Could you just use cracked corn, will they eat that? God Bless!
In Canada we can get 175 watts red heat bulbs that they're hard, way more solid than the cheap 250 bulbs that shatters at nothing (those are popular and dangerous)
Thank you for this info. New chicken mom and was concerned about winter. This relieved my worries. ❤
I am thrilled I found your channel. I have 6 girls in central NY and you’ve given me So many great ideas and you’re so much fun to watch thank you so much for doing this! ❣️🤗
You’re so welcome!
Glad I watched this before my girls are old enough to be outside. I was thinking about using a lamp in their coop during winter months. I had a pretty solid securing method in mind, but the one thing I did not account for was dust. This is why we must always do our research so thank you. You just saved 5 lives from a potential serious danger. Definitely won't be using the lamp in the coop. I have plenty of other options. That said, if anyone is watching this and needs help affording those low risk heaters, hi I'm here to help. Idc how old this comment is when your reading it. If you are in dire need of a heater, let me know. Just call me mama hen helping all my lil chicks in need 💛 absolutely love the chicken community :)
Hi! Im curious this is my first year owning chickens. They are only 8 weeks old and I live in Massachusetts and we get really cold weather. I was just wondering what you ended up using to make the coop warmer for winter?
Hi Mama hen. We're having many nights below freezing here already. Mr. T, Gladys and Myrtle might like that. They are about a year old, and this is my first coop (was the Cogburn family my first dead give-away? lol) I had the heat lamp all set up. I went back out there because I couldn't relax due to the potential danger and put it away. The low risk is the only one worth taking.
@@stephl457 ok so hear me out. Pine pellets. Wet them w spray bottle so they expand, but not fully expand. This helps them hold heat a bit better, add layer of shavings (skip this step if you have ducks), straw, and cozy coop heater if needed. Oh also feed them about an hour before they go to sleep, this helps keep warmth when they go into the nesting boxes. Typically though, if you ensure your breeds are all cold hardy, they won't rlly need supplemented heat. Even w the younger ones, I raise outside unless there's some rlly bad weather. I have a spare coop that we found on marketplace that we use as a medical coop. Babies and mom go in the closed area w nesting boxes, roosts, walls, and a sliding door, and my older flock members stay in the run section during the day to meet the babies, and then into their coop at night. After 8 weeks, let them all back together and they do just fine. If you're worried ab pecking order tho, use a dog crate inside the coop and leave the new birds in there for 24-48 hrs then release. Hope this helps and apologies for the late reply.
My chicken named Cinnamon snuck out in the woods every day and layed an egg in her hiding spot. I ended up getting 17 baby chickens she hatched out in the woods. I love your chickenlandia videos.
Oh my goodness that’s a lot of babies! ❤️🐥🐣🐥❤️
Amazing! But I was told that they needed a Roster to enable baby chicks. Now I'm confused.
@@verahargraves9544 They must've had a rooster as well.
Mrs President, I absolutely loved this video. You are spot on & you are funny! I live in upper Michigan . I just moved here, but not a 1st timer to chickens. I will be starting my chicken coop soon. Your advice is very good. I just wanted to let you know I loved your video. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!!!
We’re planning our 1st chickens for next Spring - and you are my go-to info source in this endeavor. We live in south Mid TN, so winters here are generally mild . Even though we are situating the coop and run close-ish to the house, it would still require some strategy to string electrics to that area. I feel so much relief after watching this. Ps … your funny quip about the chicken groups 😂 I thought my knitting groups were psycho 🤦🏻♀️ … I will stick to your knowledge and all-around 100% friendly nature going forward 🐣
Congrats neighbor! This is my first winter with my small flock of 6 beautiful girls! I was surprised here in zone 7A with the early freezes and frozen water for the girls. I thought maybe in January that might be an issue but not Oct/Nov. You will love your girls when you finally have them and wonder how you ever lived without chickens in your life! All issues will be worked out so don’t stress. Build your coop and go for it! Glad to hear coop will be close to your house. It will make the electrics issue easy enough to fix. I’m just using a thick extension cord from my back patio’s outdoor outlet. Best Wishes!
Backyard chickens: It's 10/29/22 today and I'm 10 months in with my 4 Chickies. They are super friendly and don't mind being picked up for petting.
For the last 3 months I have pretty much averaged 4 eggs a day! I built a 8x5x6 foot coop that is 60 percent wire. I'm in Oregon and it's Fall season and the temperature went from 90/68 degrees F daily, to all the sudden like a light switch, it became rainy 58/33 degrees F.
So, I'm on here educating myself with more practice knowledge, to make sure I know what I'm doing and was worried about the cold/freezing temperatures right around the corner.
I learned quite a bit and was entertained the entire time watching your video. You're good at what you're doing, fun personality and helping us newbies understand or learn better. Thanks a bunch!!
How did your chickens hold up? I would say through a heavy duty tarp over their Coop, and use pine flakes like a thick layer of it with zeolite spell dry to absorb moisture cuz that's what really makes them cold as the moisture, and you can put a moving blanket on the top of the heavy-duty tarp and then another tarp to keep them insulated.
I’ve got to share this video with other Philes. I love how you represent the XFILES. And I love the information you give on Chickens. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Haha thank you! The truth is definitely out there!
We use a dog house heater for our coop that works well it is placed on the opposite side of the coop from where they lay and roast. That way if they need more its available and the coop overall is warmer than the outside.
Nice!
Amen I live in Abilene, I was hot, we from 80’s to 26! Boy, it was first freezing cold! My hubby put insulation board over holes and I have a heat light safe distance over perches, cuz I have frizzles that are moulting, poor dears. I have been chicken owner for 55 years and used common sense with heat lights! Never had a problem with heat lights! I have deep litter on ground. We had ice and 26 temp for our first freeze! Ugh! The coop stayed dry and draft free, The girls did great! The oldest is 4 years!
neverending story music OMFG!!! i LOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEE IT!! GREAT CHANNEL! NICE WORK!!!
LOL you're the second person who said that! I didn't really notice but I'm here for it. Now I need a chicken named Atreyu haha!
I know this is a touchy subject. But I do not provide my chickens with heat because if the power goes out for a few days your chickens will die. They have not been acclimated to the cold and the sudden dive into cold when the heat goes out will kill them. I focus on keeping them dry and out of the wind.
Had chickens for 50 plus years. We have some very cold Winters here. No draft and not to tight so they have some air flow..as you say ventilation is the key!!! Ask yourself......What came first..THE CHICKEN OR ELECTRICITY??? Great video.
Thank you!!
Oh I forgot to thank you for bringing the warmth too! My family and I love, love, love our chickie babies!
Thank you! ❤️🐔❤️
Oh, cute angel,come to Florida! 95 here!! Our hens said you can bunk in luxury& sunshine ☀️🏖️🏝️
Too many people on UA-cam saying they don't need supplimental heat. I tried that and had some frozen combs. Got a cozy coop and all is well.. Gets to be -40 here often and heat is needed if in the backyard chicken coop type setup in places like where I live. Also supplimental light is required unless you are happy with no eggs for 6 months of the year. I LOVE YOUR VIDEO!
Thank you! Yeah, I find that people don’t really consider the colder places where there’s long stints of -40!
Thank you so much!! 🐓🐓🐓This is exactly what I needed to know!❄️❄️❄️I LOVE your videos and your passion for chickens!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yay! Thank you!
Mom just asked if she could buy me the Cozy Coop heater for my girls for Christmas, I said YESS!! Looking forward to it and hopefully I wont need a water bowl heater which she also offered to buy but I told her I thought this would help with issue in their coop with the water freezing, and she just had a dog get a hip replacement this week so I wanted to save her $ if it wasn’t necessary. I’m adding clear plastic around the outside of their coop run, then they have an open 8x8 run and recently began free ranging the backyard through out the day going back and forth. These are some happy girls at 19 weeks now! Watching closely for my first egg! 😊
Excellent information, as usual! Thanks for being so level headed.
I'm trying LOL!
Hi Mrs. President hope all is well with you and the family and the chickens
Thank you! Hope you and your fam are well as well!
A heat source I have is an electric mat ( for starting young seeds in the cold months) in one of my brooding boxes. It’s hardly warm to the touch, but when it’s Wisconsin Cold, it’s a cozy spot.
Great idea
Great idea
Great tip about the heated dish for fermented food 👌🏼 thanks a bunch!
The music reminds me of “The Never Ending Story” ☺️
Haha that's cool! I love this kind of eighties style music. :-)
Same
I believe she used instrumental music from both Neverending Story and Labyrinth
I'm a first time chicken parent getting ready for a Canadian winter. This was really helpful! (I'm also an XFiles fan and appreciate the representation)
The exact same here...we’re in NS. Where do you call home?
Haha I want to believe!
What kind of Chikens do you want to keep
@@mrs.creeksidemaples2866 I'm in Cape Breton!!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia I be believing!
I bring my 2, I only have 2 chickens in at night. I have a huge dog kennel that fits my king shepherd in it I took a big tree branch from outside and I put it across the inside where they roost at night they have food and water also in there and I feel safe and content knowing they're safe and in the morning I put them out to their chicken coop and to the backyard to free range with the cats and dogs. We all live in harmony
I've been watching you for over a year now. I love your videos by the way! I have learned so much from you! My favorite thing about your chicken coop and yard is your prayer Flags. Besides all the cute chickens:-).
I'm glad that it warmed up a little around here. Some of our girls are molting.
Same!!
Same here, too.
I live in the far South of Alaska not up in the Arctic. We rarely go below zero here. I have hens that can take the cold they have small combs and my coop is small 4X10 for seven chickens and completely insulated with no doors or windows facing the North. I have a row of vents up high and one small exit door to yard and then the entrance door for me. There is also a window that can open facing East. It's very dry inside as I use sand on the wood floor and scoop out all the poop twice a day. Mine are not laying at all for weeks now. I have supplemental light during the day and a heated water container inside too. Very nice video and I like all the frames you are wearing.
just got done with winter, we had down to minus 35. our birds had no heat and they did very well.
I ha e had my chickens for years .. I ha e honestly never used a heat lamp for my chickens even in the dead of winter in ohio... They never have had a problem
I laughed when she said Toopee looked like Wolverine haha. I agree lol cute
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@@WelcometoChickenlandia Love your videos. I am just getting into chicken keeping! Thank you for all the info!!! My lovely ladies are coming soon. :)
Hey Ms President, LOL, I have one chicken almost 20 yrs and 3 that are almost 15. I was vegetarian and ate eggs, now I'm vegan and don't, but that's ok, they are so old they don't lay. I've always used the red lamps when the temps are below 30°. I'm going to check out the alternatives because I hadn't thought about their age and I can leave it on all the time. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Jo wwwow! I didn’t know they could live that long!
@@granmabern5283 Yes, like alot of birds, chickens can live along time if keep happy and healthy.
My girls are doing well in the barn and garage. I have a small group the goes high up in the upperbarn. The roosters have bits of frostbite on the Combs. It's rural farm life.
I am using a heat lamp for the coup and it's been 0 degrees here in Pueblo Colorado. I can't bring them inside. They go down in their run and eat then go back upstairs to get warm. So far they look good. The little prairie chicken is inside in a dog kennel. Now I am at the part about the heat lamp. It's all I have and without it, they would freeze. Hope all goes well. The suggestion about using hot peppers is interesting. I think I will try it. 😬😬😬🤗
I completely understand. You have to do what you can and just weigh the risks. Every situation is unique. ❤️
Use a ceramic heater not a heat lamp and buy a cheap timer, set it up to come up a couple times starting with before they go imside and put it avobe the bedding a few inches.
Thank you for the great info! We also live in Seattle and worried about the upcoming random temp drop to 10 degrees 😬 we have two 8 year olds and 6 year old in a small coop any last minute advice to prepare ❄️
Depending on the breed they should be fine but if you only have three there's no harm in bringing them in the garage or another area that is a little warmer than outside for the night!
Keep bringing the cheer Madam President. I enjoy and learn from your vids.
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Im resisting the urge to move all of my chickens into the house after that cold front last night! It's not supposed to get cold in Texas! Stay warm and have a great day chicken fam
Right? I used to live in Texas and I found that it was either melting, ice, or tornado haha (just kidding). I'm from Duncanville, just outside of Dallas.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Haha! Yes exactly and Im on the coast so hurricanes too. We have a hurricane coming now can you believe it? Thats amazing you're from Texas I had a bunch of friends from Duncanville! We spent the summer in London, England when we were all 16-17 years old. I knew there was something special I liked about you!
Our temps seldom drop below the high 40s, so we use translucent fortified tarps that allow some indirect sunlight into the chicken-wire-over-chain link sides of their 8*17 foot run. With some translucent tarps inside as baffling. The roof is three layers of tarp. And still, sometimes I wonder if they're warm enough. After watching this, and seeing what others do in colder climate zones... I'll worry less.
Amen I live in Abilene and boy it was cold! My hubby put insulation board over holes and I have a heat light down low over perches, cuz I have frizzles that are mounting poor dears. We had ice and 26 temp for our first freeze! The girls did great!
@@judyreynolds305 Im glad they are doing well! I would be so afraid for the frizzles their feathers arent insulating at all
It’s great that you really love sharing your experience with Chickens. I enjoyed the video. Looking forward to seeing my own reds and dominickers walking around soon.
10:23 One of my personal favs is " Is the juice worth the squeeze".
You got a shout out from jeff @ bobblehead homestead.
Didn't need winter tips since i also live in deep south, but no such thing as over informed.
I love Bobblehead! It's great to have you here.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia i enjoy seeing anyone doing well. not sure if 300 chickens is a dream or nightmare, dont wanna trade him daily chores.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia so far ive learned how to ferment feed and how to make a kitty litter box into a dust bath. shame you told secret of verm-x, its almost doubled in price.
Great information Madam President! Hope the flock does well this Winter.
Take care and stay safe,
Rob
Thank you so much and same to you!
I only add heat when it drops below 10 degrees.
South Mississippi getting hit with some single digits this week. Covered openings on the north side of my coop, leaving others open for ventilation. Added a thick layer of ryegrass hay to my hemp bedding. My coop is three feet off the ground which adds to my run space. I wrapped the underside of my coop to create a windbreak for my girls when they’re out in the run. Added a nice layer of chopped pine straw to the run to give a little extra protection for their feet. They get a nice meal of mixed grains with some sardines mixed in just before roost time to feed that internal furnace. I thought I had it all figured out, but then I realized that I had overlooked the frozen water issue. Had to change out their water every hour throughout the day due to freezing. But my girls are happy and safe!!
Very well done! The water thing is such a pain.
I don't have chickens or want chickens but somehow found this video and loved it!
Haha yay!! I’m glad you enjoyed it. :)
Really appreciated this. You brought up some things I had never considered. Thx!
So glad it was helpful!!
That music reminded me of the music playing on The Neverending Story.😂 Great video!
This will be my first winter in Western New York with chickens. Previously had chickens in South Florida.
I was concerned at first but have been confirming what I had already thought about. Thank you for continuing to be a great resource for chicken keepers of all kinds.
I am a retired vet tech and experienced chicken keeper but there is always something new to learn.
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Oops forgot to ask can you put up a link to your heated bowls?🤭
Yes I just put the link in the description! And thank you so much for your kind words.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia so funny because I went on Amazon before you put up the link and bought the exact same bowl, it looked like yours and had good reviews!😂
I think you need to bring your chickens in when it gets below ten degrees. I have the sweeter heater which my chickens love, my coop is insulated and the pen is covered with plastic and tarps. I have 5 cold-hardy speckled Sussex hens that go down to the basement on the cold days. We live in Maine and there are many subzero days. The ground is frozen and snow covered for a good part of the winter and into spring so they are not missing too much. My goal for next winter is to figure out how to make it a little more of a chicken paradise so that they do not miss the outdoors. I love watching Chickenlandia. It's so fun! Thank you.
Love ur vidoes, l'm from saint Lucia in the Caribbean, love to heir from you.
What a beautiful place to live!
Good ventilation
Keep food and water warm
Yes!!
I've had chickens in a drafty coop at -40F for a whole week and they survived, but all my eggs would crack and the roosters combs would freeze and get all bloody and nasty. This year I'm using three Dietz kerosene lanterns in the coop, they look so cool! I got the idea from one of the big hatcheries, they had photos of their coops and they used lots of lanterns. And they put off a lot of heat. Now I'm working on lining the walls with cardboard to keep the drafts out, hoping with enough insulation I can cut down to just one lantern. I have 37 birds in a 10 x 10 shed that I built from wood from my sawmill, pretty cool setup. Now all the birds want to stay in with the lanterns at night, they like the heat and no more cracked eggs!
I’m glad you found something that works for you!
I always put heat lamp with my baby chicks and also hang it from the top where it's secure so they won't knock it down also in the big chicks Coupe. I did it for 6 years and it was good and yes I was concerned about fire too but I make sure that heat lamp is very secure so they won't knock it down and keep it away from anything that's going to cause 🔥
I'm so glad you share the content that you do. The chicken groups are something else, for sure. I live in a mild climate and don't have to use supplemental heat for my girls. When they get to be more "mature" ladies I might but I'll probably do like you and bring them inside where they can be comfortable. You're such a great source of knowledge! thank you!
You're so welcome and thank you for being a great chicken parent!
I love your coop!!😍
Thank you!
Thank for useful information! But for my poor english, i have to see this clip several times! Good video!
Thank you for watching!
I subscribed cause you are so cute and funny ... you crack me up... I have chickens and live in Florida ... we have heat problems with chicken here...lol. But they do survive.. and ventilation is very important here for air flow to keep them cool when inside the closed up chicken house
Yes, definitely important to keep that airflow going in Florida! I used to live there.
I'm so glad I found your channel, this spring will be my first year with chickens, and I'm doing all the research I can. Your videos are very informative, thank you 😊
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your channel. I am a new chicken mommy and your channel is so helpful!!! Thank you!!
Yay! I’m so glad. ❤️🐔❤️
I've been so nervous for my chickens. I know they can handle the cold just fine if they're acclimated, but mine were/are still young and it's their first winter, and we went from 90s to 30s back up to 80s within less than a week not long ago! Then we had to evacuate them due to fires, then they got snow! It's been a wild ride for the babies...
Oh my goodness. I'm glad they are under such good care with you!
Some great advice! Had to re hit the subscribe button for some reason just to let you know! Hugs
Yay! It's great to have you here!
I love your new intro 😀 so glad I don't have to worry about frozen chickens in the winter, just keeping em cool in summer here in Florida 😂
I used to live in Miami Beach and i LOVED the weather. Unfortunately, my Canadian husband would never agree to moving back for fear he may melt LOL.
I also have 2 chick in Pakistan. in winter I put them in room and put them in a box with holes on box and put food and water and cover box and close all doors and Windows of the home. Btw love from Pakistan.
I always find myself thinking Pakistan is warm but I guess there are colder areas. Such a beautiful country with awesome chickens!
ur music sounds like it's from the never-ending story hahaha good taste!
Haha many people have said this! Thank you. :-)
Hello… Ive got 7 Polish chickens which Ive read are not as cold hardy as other breeds… I have them in a 7x7 resin shed using deep litter method..but I just started it, and it takes a while to get it composting & creating heat. I wanted to be ready for unusually cold nights so I purchased a 40” Sweeter Heater (you mentioned) which is an infra red radiant heater and an Ink Bird programmable thermostat with wi-fi built in…I can remotely, from my house, select the target temp & the differential (number of degrees it drops below the target temp before it kicks on the heater). I want to mention I have it programmed to not be on above freezing (32°F) so my Polish remain cold acclimated but it gives a little reprieve on very cold nights. Our winter has just started and next week it will be around 10°F at night for several days in a row & it sometimes drops below 0°F.
Could my chicken’s be ok without the heater?…probably…but I do have good ventilation and with the heater running all night it only raises the coop temp by 6 degrees.
I think that there needs to be more discussion on how people heat their hen houses when they do decide to add supplemental heat. I really like my set-up because it takes the edge off without warming the coop to above freezing temperatures.
I like your channel and your friends ch. Bock Bock Bouquet…. Keep up the good work Pres!…😁❤️🇺🇸
Thanks for the info. We get extremely cold here. We insulted the coop like a house, then put the cozy coop heater in there. X3. We have 15 chickens and 2 roosters. I will have to ask my husband how big our coop is. We are hoping that it will stay warm enough. We get down to -35 degrees F or even lower. This is our first winter with our chickens. Wish us luck.
I’m sure they will be fine! 🐔🐔🐔
Mountain Living Homestead i am in Kansas and it go cold this week. I use to bag my leaves and pile the black bags around the run,they absorbved heat during the day, but I found out it made a nice house for mice, so I had a ceramic fan and heater, I work nights so I would just turn the heater on from 11pm to 1am, but I got tired of it, I decided not to use leaves or hay, I use a very thin layer of mulch, I dont do deep litter I clean it 1 a week, my run is fill with sand I bougth a timer and tested it inside the house, it comes on 4 times a night for 30 minutos at the time, my life is so much easier, I rise the heater in a piece of wood of the mulch, I heat up at 2pm before I leve, then at 6pm when there is nobody home, then at 11pm nd at 4am, by then we are home and I can hear trough the baby monitor I have inside, really there is only 1 risky time at 7pm, I feed them corn before I leave, if cold night I make them oatmeal with little pieces of meat or egg or cheese/bacon etc, I also put the pulverize eggshels in it serve hot, or if I have soup bones with fat, I warm them up and serve them in a ceramic plater.
@@sharoncourt75 I like the timer idea. I’m going to talk to my husband about trying that. Thanks for the idea! 😁
@@mountainlivinghomestead429 you want the heather blowing to circulate air and dry out moisture, during the day maybe run as afan for a bit to dry poop, avoid hay or shredded paper beding see if you could use mulch.
@@sharoncourt75 thank you for all the good advise. I appreciate all the help I can get.
Going into this extreme cold I have a heat lamp high in the converted milk house. But I need to address the frost covering all of the cinderblock walls. Deep litter is helping and heated water bowl helps.
Best video overall on the topic I found. Funny how you brought them in when it gets below 32 though. It’s been a very mild winter until this point where I’m at in northern MN. Right now it’s -35 actual temp -60s wind chill. 2/15/21. Ive considered that radiant heater.. but I really have my doubts on it. Would it even work in this cold? The deep litter method only works in spring and fall up here. The poop freezes like a rock before it hits the ground in the winter here.
Oh my goodness, that's cold! If you want to use the heater, it really just needs to keep it above -15 if you can. Really depends on your coop size, etc. I bring the old ladies in because for us, less than 30 is cold LOL. If they were acclimated to colder temps I bet they would withstand more.
I have two very spoiled chickens. At night I carry them into my garage and put them in a very large dog crate . Then I turn on a small electric heater to take chill out of garage. ( not close to chickens)
I turn off the heater before I go to bed. The heater is activated at a certain temperature, but I still unplug it. The lowest temperature we ever get is middle 30s, and even then, rarely.
Good chicken parent!
Me personally always provide heat in my coop for my chickens. A red light for their or a small heater for them. I put hay in their coop to also keep them warm.
I use the producers Pride chicken coop heater and brooder. It keeps my coop around 40 when it is 20 outside. I also keep my feeder and water inside the coop so it does not freeze.
Jeff from Bobblehead Homestead said to check out your channel, so I did. I absolutely love you and your videos. I live near Olympia WA and though I don't have any chickens yet I would like to get some when I am able to make a safe place for them. Perhaps someday I will have some of my own but until then I watch the videos of others that I enjoy. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Yay!! Thank you so much for being here. I hope you are able to get your own flock soon.
My cats had a bed that had a heating pad in it. You can buy the heating pads on Amazon for around $10. A couple of those would really help on a wood night perch they could all huddle on. And each one uses the power of a couple night lights....very low. Zero fire risk. Just install it so the chickens cannot get to it and peck it apart.
Aviary's zoos use warm hotish water thru PVC pipes as perches, no wind sealed environment.
I got the producers Pride flat panel heater / Brooder from Tractor Supply very safe option
I haven’t heard of that brand but I’m going to check it out!
You are my favourite chicken lady. Thankyou i love it and you.
The chicken kennel, run I have in front of your coop… do u have a link for that? It’s the right size and I can seem to find one like it. Thanks for all you teach me!
So informative thank you. You are awesome and so compassionate.
You are so welcome!
Ok, now not feeling weird. Polar vortex last year crated them into kitchen!
I live in Cheyenne Wyoming right now we are at Sub-Zero - 2. Fahrenheit that is. Very cold most my chickens are fine. I have two that won't be fine they molted late in the season cuz it stayed hot out. They don't have any feathers. So I bring those two in but I put seedling mats underneath my water bowl and my food dish. And then I put one underneath the egg boxes. To keep the eggs from freezing. Three seasons later and it hasn't been a problem at all
I live in Nevada.......
No worries about condensation or dampness here 😂😂😂
Ahhh I miss the desert! I used to live in Arizona. ❤️
Welcome to Chickenlandia dear God, what happened.....Arizona is fabulous.
Love, love, love the landscape and the majestic 🌵
This is definitely in my #Playlist AZ winters are dangerous at night and early morning hours, then heats up all day unless it's cloudy. I have had chicks die by morning and it was heartbreaking. You have helped me keep the 9 I have left and I am grateful . #Thank you for all the wonderful tips and techniques. This my 1st time raising live chickens and they all have personalities of their own. #Keepupthegreatwork I am staying tuned.
Deep litter..composting requires moisture, so, there’s a trade off there..in a damp area, you’d have a wet coop. I’m brand new..literally waiting for eggs and chicks, coop is built. Run is built. I’m wanting to run electricity for lights, warm water, maybe, maybe heat but low watt passive heat. Perhaps only a couple hours a day to bring above freezing.
You definitely will not regret running electricity. I waited forever to do that and water freezing is such a PAIN. Good luck with your new chicken adventure!
John Cspine, avid deep litter and put a heater not a heat lamp heater like for a room at your house, if posible have sand in the coop floor, cuts down the chances of fire but you have to scoop it out at lest 1 a week, buy. Heated water bowl and put you heater in a timer so it don't run all the time. In the roost if is avobe use mulch, dont fly out as easy s hay.Hen posible if the chickens are out run the heater as a fan during the day for an hour or so to move the air and dry the 💩
GREAT VIDEO, Great advice, ....! I have had poultry, all kinds of critters,.... since 8,... now 72, retired zoo keeper. CHICKENS are now my passion, cause, can't handle a lot of hoofstock ETC. Anymore. I have SERAMA, to buckeyes, WYANDOTTES, Dutch, SEBRIGHTS, DOMINIKERS...... Dominiques... .. never thought of putting my fermented FEED in HEATED DOG bowls....... DUH....IM IN THE ADIRONDACK
...MOUNTAINS UPSTATE N.Y.... we can have Brutally cold weather....... thanks again. NEW subscriber.... like to see, all your different breeds.... I'm they same way.. I love em all......
Sounds like you have an awesome flock! I love it.
Love your videos, thank you. I live in Georgia usually not to cold but the last few nights got in the 20s. I put up a poultry sweeter heater last week, I think I like it. I notice you have Seramas in a mixed flock. I have 7 grown hens of different varieties and just got 6 teenage pullets I’m slowly introducing (wow it’s a challenge). I have 2 Serama pullets ordered for a month from now, do they need additional heat? Also, any suggestions on how to introduce them?
I don’t think you will need additional heat for the Seramas, depending on their age. It will be a challenge to integrate them so you need to go REALLY slow. This video may help: ua-cam.com/video/MTSs0SLioG8/v-deo.html
Feb 15 2021. It is 6 degrees at the moment and the high is 12 iny area.
awwww you can tell you love your little guys, and I do love the ducks too, they are so cute. My chickens i have are all designed to tolerate ohio winters I built a shed coop with open front mostly, ventilation along the upper edge, and I cover the sides (where I usually keep open for the summer) either with a window or curtain inside, to keep that draft out, but it is certainly not retaining a ton of heat, I good book I read is a green book called open front coops (open fresh air coops) had alot of good pointers in coop designe to avoid all those nasties you mentioned. also I do not supplement but if I do I had read about the radiant heaters that are safer my coop like yours is very close tothe house, those heaters I used for the babies are now being recycled as heaters for my little green house. since I had used them for a while and had no problems of blow ups or anything like that (and I double hang them for safty)they are doing just fine in my mini greenhouses I built around my baby magnolias. they have a nice covered run, and they get mad at me sometimes because I wont let them free range, which is just do dangerous no place to hide with leaves and the hawks have been coming around daily (I know hte chickens let me know). they will be out in the spring when the shrubs and plants start to leaf out and it is warm enough for me to stay out there working and watching them to I just enjoy the heat and sunshine of spring and just want to stay out all day.
Sounds like your chickens have a wonderful life! ❤️🐔❤️
Excellent. Young chickens need that heat.
You are correct like my say
Just let you know I love the way u take care of your flock!! Okay I was incubating 48 chickens I had a power outage for two and a half days I was able to take the trays to corner store cuz I didn't have a generator ☹️! Had one hatch!! Fuzz! 🤣🤣 Raised by himself in the house with five pitbulls 😂😂😂!! he goes out to the chicken house in the morning be with his women but he's ready to come in at night and get in his cage 🤣🤣 and 6:00 on the dime he tells me 😂😂😂 and he's the head of the pitbulls 🤣🤣🤣 I wish I could send you some pictures or some videos of them
Oh my goodness what a story! ❤️🐔🤣❤️
@@WelcometoChickenlandia where silly!! 😂
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Fuzz ! He's something else!😂! Never knew chicken birds got so attached!! He my BFF 😂
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Yes , he's here!! He gets mad when I wake before him? 😂 But when somebody comes to the door back door he don't bark but he gets upset the dogs are barking and he's like crazy Boy 🤣🤣
@@WelcometoChickenlandia I'm just a small time farmer too northern Michigan have two steers a Tom hen two steers and about 60 layers !! I live alone with my mother that says it all
Hh, I've ended up with two chicks in our house until next summer.
It gets quite cold here during winter.
I have a flock of 11 (not counting the two chickies)
1 old De'Uccle, 2 old De'Anvers, and 8 seramas.
Seramas are the smallest breed of chicken and don't do well in the cold.
So, I give them hot water in their coop.
It's very well ventilated and I've never had issues with humidity.
That and the fact that their coop is a little on the smaller side (big enough for them to be comfortable. They have a secure run so during the hotter months I don't lock them in the coop) help keep my birds warm.
I love waking up in the morning to see the water in the coop still.. well.. water even though everything outside is frozen.
I have little Seramas too! It doesn't get too cold here, though. But my oldies do have to come in sometimes. It's hard when they get old!
Ducky is a gorgeous chicken. 😊
Well done miss
During the ice storm here in tx, I ran hot water bottles (we had natural gas water heater) during the blackouts. Every 2 to 3 hours I was replacing the bottles. Alot of ppl lost birds during the storm and blackouts. My birds did ok, and I didn't loose any,but I did end up with 3 frostbite cases on waddles. I try and keep one heat lamp in the quad(4 connected 8x8 coops) to keep my quackers warm. I keep one in the roosting run, and a couple in the brooder barn. It gives them a warm spot if they need it, but it is optional for them. Mostly they do fine, but I have had duck problems a couple of times, especially if we had a wet snow.(yes it does snow in tx lol) thankfully I now have rooves on everything, so there shouldn't be any snow covered critters this year...last year I had JUST moved and didn't have a roof on the quad and was throwing every scrap peice of wood,old doors and rusty tin I could find on top of all the coops and the quad.
Being in Michigan I know that I have to buy cold hardy chickens. I also buy chicks in the spring (middle of April) because Michigan can still be cold in May and of course for fall and winter I have to make sure they are full grown to withstand temperature change. We never supplement heat because we make sure we are prepared for the age of the baby chicks and type of chickens we buy. We have woken up to electricity going out so that is a huge reason why we dont do it too. We bought a shed and put insulation up (left vents at the top open of course) so the coop is hopefully warm enough for them and we also have our perches where they can easily lay on their feet to keep them warm by laying the 2×4s flat so they are laying on the 4 inch part... I hope that is ok for them as I have done research on it and a lot say its good but some say its not and chickens like "branch" type sizes to roost on.