Do Chickens Need Heat In Winter??

[@NicoleSmithGardening]

Doug! 😂 Very cool chicken facts 😎

[@oneseedoneworld]

Doug loves to crow constantly when I'm filming. :D

[@TheOldMayfieldPlace]

Great info! Sometimes people forget that farm animals are still animals that are designed to live outside and can survive and even thrive in weather that we find intolerable.

[@oneseedoneworld]

So true! I'm amazed at chickens resilience in cold weather (even though they hate the snow 🙂)

[@TheIlook1]

I have an infrared heating panel (that I used when they were chicks). I mainly have it to keep it dry. We are still getting about 9-10 eggs a day from our 19 hens. I also invested in a 3 gallon heated watering container. I have noticed they have been eating more food. I add mealworms in with their feed. I also deep bed my coop with pine shavings. My sister-in-law’s coop started to burn due to a bumped heating lamp. Fortunately they were there and caught it before it got out of control.

[@oneseedoneworld]

Glad they caught the fire in time! I have used a heated waterer in the past and it worked pretty well. I just didn't feel like dragging the extension cord down to the coop this winter. So on the real cold days I just take a couple of water pitchers down each morning which isn't so bad.