Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Two black chickens for 2fer Tuesday.
One with feathers. One, not so much. Actually Calypso has put on an impressive number of feathers in the last week. I guess she read the forecast too!

 

[rural mouse]

Doesn’t everyone have a wide screen TV that the chooks can enjoy?

It's called Nature and is 360⁰ surround sound and view.

 

[rural mouse]

W/ Princess's floppy comb she possibly doesn't see Huey...or she has the typical Leghorn background of being an industrious independent forager not needing companionship. Our 3 Leghorns were not followers nor seemed desirous of companionship ... others would follow them.

A flopped over comb does NOT automatically mean a bird is of leghorn origins. Princess is a Light Sussex, in the UK

https://livestockconservancy.org/sussex-chicken/

 

[featherhead007]

Coco ate a half a baby aspirin and I didn’t even have to hide it in her feed

 

[rural mouse]

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What the heck is going on?

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So pretty though...

We have below zero temps predicted for this week...(below -17C). It's normal, and we're actually a bit overdue for the cold.

 

[rural mouse]

Space heaters inside coops...alarm alarm...chickens are strong flappers & space heaters can be easily knocked over. The safety shut-off is supposed to work when the heater is knocked over yet i had one heater where the feature didn't work when knocked over! TG it was a house heater & not in a coop!

That's why I was suggesting in the human area. There's no access for the birds, but some air flow would allow the heat in.

 

[featherhead007]

Maybe I should take a double dose of Xanax… just kidding

 

[featherhead007]

This would only be an OBGYN chicken if you photo-shopped a chicken face over the human face...

 

[featherhead007]

I don’t fotoshop

 

[BY Bob]

This is an interesting perspective. Yes I can plug a space heater into the coop - even on the step just outside the human area. Sort of where I put the fire-escape when I have chicks.
I am not worried about frozen eggs as nobody is laying, but the issue is that because the Palace is so high and the ventilation so extensive, any heat just goes right up and out.
I wonder though if I could rig up a temporary roof over the roosts (tarp or cardboard) to trap heat. Maybe combined with something to deflect heat from the space heater into the coop rather than straight up.
Hmmm.

The words space heater and cardboard together scare me a little.

I like the idea of heating the coop directly but it must be done safely.