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Put a couple hens in with him when you isolate him - that keeps a roo happy. My farmer hubby put hens in with our roo when he was put in the barn office to recover from frostbite and it cheered him up.

Quote: Maybe just the very tips will fall off. My Buff Orpington rooster was outside on a high wind chill day (I am kicking myself for not keeping him cooped up) and he suffered bad frostbite on his comb and wattles. I took him and his hens out of the unheated coop and into a dry heated room...

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Here's my painting of a Legbar Rooster surrounded by Daffodils and Ribbons. My husband gave me a couple wooden boxes to decorate (really cheese boxes, I think), but could be used for a hatbox (if anybody wears hats, anymore). What do you think?

Watering chickens in the winter - you can keep 2 waterers - one in garage or some heated area where the water won't freeze and one in the coop. You must then haul the frozen waterer out of the coop and replace it with the other waterer from the heated area so the poor thirsty chickens aren't...

The electric fence keeps out the big predators - coyotes, raccoons, dogs - and you can move the fence around so they have new pasture to scratch up, and forage for grass and bugs. You will be surprised at how fast chickens can dig up a stationary run and turn it into a mudhole.

You might consider containing your flock in a pasture fence - I do and it works great! I use electric poultry fence from Premier - easy to set up and move around. http://www.premier1supplies.com/fencing.php?species_id=6 The chickens can "free range" in the pasture foraging for bugs and...

So cute!

Awww baby pigeons. Any pics?

I kept weeder geese once. I wanted them to weed my strawberry beds. I hadn't counted on the mountains of poop they would leave behind. The gander was very aggressive and tree'd my twin girls up a swing set once before I rescued them.

She is adorable! And so lucky to have you!

What a beautiful rooster! No wonder you are in love!

I read that it helps to have bushes and undergrowth for the hens to run to. The crows in our area chase off the hawks.

Tioga County

My little flock (11 hens and 1 rooster) usually rush out of their coop to freedom in the morning. But not for the first snow day! I opened the door and they all stayed on the roost! "Don't you want to go out" I asked. "We don't think so" - they told me. After a while they wandered...