Waterers In Winter

How to Keep Chicken Water from Freezing Safely in Winter

Brrrr It’s cold out  A new flock owner soon learns that subfreezing weather presents the challenge of keeping the chicken’s water liquid when mother nature wants to turn it to ice

 

Chickens have an amazing ability to thrive in cold weather, but they must have liquid water to drink They can’t consume ice or snow and must be able to drink liquid water many times every day

 

Years ago, our coop lacked electricity During cold spells we carried a bucket of warm water to the flock every couple of hours to replace

Raising Winter Chickens Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of the Winter Chickens Series!

We are now several months into our winter chicken raising experience and loving it even more My girls are almost fully grown and are slowly integrating with my main flock They still live in their own chicken coop, but we do plan to move them to the main chicken coop later this summer

What I most love about these winter chickens, is that they should start laying eggs pretty soon! Most chickens will lay their first egg between 16 and 24 weeks of age My winter chickens arrived in late January