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I rarely need the lamp because of my temperatures and the plate is better suited to my management style. But I use the dual setup when the temps drop. Because of the nature of my brooder, which is optimized for blistering heat rather than cold, I'd have to run two lamps for winter hatches and...

This depends on the specific plate, some of which do better in cooler temps than others. I have the Producer's Pride plate and use it alone down to about 50 and then in a dual heat setup down into the 20's (this winter had a cold snap for every hatch I made -- including Easter). The Big Red...

Dobie's advice is excellent. There are two good ways to keep rodents and other pests from getting under a coop -- one is with that apron as she described, the other is to elevate it on piers high enough to allow daylight and air well under it and to allow the chickens under it. The problem...

IMO, standing water is a 100% no-go. It's a recipe for vile-smelling mud -- a chicken cesspit. :( But since you're in a severe winter area you will need some means of keeping water from freezing so the ability to run power is going to be pretty important. Can you build up that area somehow...