Putting a heat lamp in your chicken coop this winter might sound like what you want to do, but it might kill your chickens! Instead try these methods to keep your chickens nice and warm during these cold temps on your homestead.
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Here in Alabama I have my coop inside a barn. That gives lots of weather protection. I cover it with a tarp and will take other measures to keep wind out of the outside run. And plenty of cracked corn!
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Their window is open. So a heat source in there would be useless. Lol
You probably dont heat your home or use lights. Risk of fire.
Each chicken is as warm as a 10 W bulb. So if you have 10 chickens in the coop it's like having 100 W bulb in the coop.
I've been raising chickens for about 13 or 14 yrs now. Have had as many as 50 chickens. I built coop tall enough so I could walk in without stopping over. I've also used heat lamps since day one when temps get down to upper 20's or below and have never had a problem with chickens knocking them down or breaking them causing a coop fire. The trick is to keep the light at a fairly high level so they can't reach it so easily and allow light fixture to swing but close the opening of the hanging hook. Heat lamps don't need to be that low for mature chickens. For peeps you'll need it a bit lower and need to monitor the coop temp. Chickens and peeps will rotate outward if they're getting to warm and this farther from heat lamp will move closer when they get cold.
When I lived in Michigan, I had a chicken coop like in the video. The chicken door opened in to the forage tent. I used heaters that are made for under desk application. Worken great. I had heated waters in the forage tent. I now live in southern Ohio, no chickens. Now its ducks and geese!
You’re an idiot.
Hi chicken people! For water, husband shovels snow path to water. Water in in shallow bucket, sitting on a 2 ft stump with log steps to keep it out of the scratching zone and flying dirt and stays clean. For 30 years we have used an aquarium heater on a timer in winter to keep the water from freezing. It comes on at 4 afternoon to 10 morning. We live at 6200 ft in the Rockies. We don't heat our coop but do all the things this young man suggests. Haven't lost a bird yet to cold. We have had chickens live for 15 years. Not all, but some. Yeah. 15 years!🎉
Use arc fault for a heater in these places
When I was a boy our chicken coop was built into the side of a hill. We had a lot of chickens and in the winter their coop was warm from all the chickens body heat. It was my chore to collect eggs even on cold winter days in Colo.
If wild birds are still out, your chickens will be fine…. Theyre just lazy by nature.
we have -30 weather and we put snow around the base and we cover tr outside of the coop with plastic, pit lots of straw and food and if its too cold like -30 for a few days then the heat la.p goes on
I insulated our chickens coop with exterior door window cut outs. It’s 1 1/2” thick spray foam with fiberglass on both sides. We don’t get really cold weather here in north Alabama though. Might have went overboard but I had extra insulation panels to do something with.
Suggestion- install a clear plastic roof to allow sunlight. Bird flu is caused by not enough sunlight. Also yokes are orange if you feed them greens,.
Most grocers will give you expired greens and veggies if you agree to pick them up 2 times a week !! Keep up the good work !!
we know they are well insulated they hat 89 deg f cant get coat off…………………
Heat mats don’t get very hot and come waterproof…it’s a little something
Number one is very lame. If you believe that then why would you have electricity in your house?
The rest is very good info.
What did pioneers do before electricity?? Nothing!! The barns usually had gaping holes in them … The chickens will be fine as long as they have fresh water and feed!!
Chickens REFLECT intelligence…🪞
You have to little natural light in the coop and to many chickens in it. Gett the heat in.
I live on the Canadian Prairie where wind chill can get as low as -50C. never really used a heat lamp maybe once or twice when i first got chickens. My coop however is insulated and a open vent cupola to help with ventilation. Haven't lost one to cold weather.
7:13 they don't seem to mind the snow after all the stuff you put down.
Here in Virginia, it gets freezing. Do you heat their water?
I have six chickens, three ducks, a goose and a turkey that were in a coop, inside my barn, but because they do stay in there so long right now, I let them use the other half where I keep the straw and cans of feed.
I try not to think like a human with them. They can adapt and yes, if heated, they will get used to it.
I have an outside wire coop for when they were first getting used to the place, but it doesn't shelter much and I would trust it to predators.
It would be nice if they had more room and choices. But that's a human point of view again.
Stop with expecially. It's especially no C, no X.
Minus three Celsius? Tisk
My chickens sleep up in trees all year long and they are all fine. It gets down as low as 7 Fahrenheit sometimes in the winter. They’re birds they live outside and it’s ok. I never used any heat source.
i do. not quite a frozen snotstache better luck next time. thanks.
Chickens don't need heaters
“Ex-specially” – (0:39)(1:05)(3:50)
I’m quite confident that is not the way the word is pronounced. It’s “deafly” (6:32) worth looking into.
At the very least it’s “unfurmiliar” to me. “Pacifically” when it seems like people are far too busy, hopped up on
“ex-presso”, to even bother understanding how a word is written and its pronunciation. Maybe there is just a heightened “aliteracy” today, by comparison to former times of earlier history – “ex-cetera ex-cetera”.
I don’t mean to be an “assessory” to this pandemic. Maybe where some people live, there’s not enough light to even read a book. This is “probly” the case for somebody living near the “Artic”. Perhaps they didn’t bother “axe” enough questions in their upbringing, and after repeatedly ignoring the rules of grammar, they grew into adulthood and – “viola”!
But maybe a little bit of pedantic ignorance can serve some purpose after all. Oddly enough – I certainly did “consider these words you had to say today “
I usually leave a candle in the cup. They sit around and toast marshmallows all night until they get tired.😊
Have you ever had frostbite on your chickens?
We moldy floor and respiratory problems after a few seasons of deep litter plus spilled leaky waterers and poor air exchange. So it can be done well or not well.
very good video!!! nice to meet you!
Don't make the same mistake I did and use fome boards for installation. Chickens will eat it.
insulating that shed would be a good start
Did you build your chicken coop? Do you have plans for it?
My poultry are open all year around they can came as they like if they get to cold they will go back in their coop
Great tips.
Blessings.
Are you located in Michigan? I’ve been looking at buying a coop that looks exactly like yours. Wondering how it’s holding up ?
The deep litter method is just plain lazy, period. It’s moist and humid from urine and decomposition and it’s acidic and severely laden with ammonia. You would never let your cat or dog or hamster or pet rabbit live like that so why your livestock. It’s also dirty, the off gassing is indisputable, and the extra ventilation just offsets the little added heat from the decomposition.
We’ve used heat panels for years.
our rooster got frostbite on his comb and waddles. so we put a heat lamp in the coop. -27 wind chill is too cold. we wrapped their run with plastic in late fall. I don't want another issue, and we love our chickens sooo much. I'm not judging your decisions though. Best of luck everyone.
Excellent tips. Thank you so much!😅
You can be stupid but I can’t have problems with autocorrect???