Doug what breed is your rooster? How long has he been living like this, is this his first winter or how did he do last year?Doug The Chickenman wrote:QR_BBPOST They will be fine it will not be infected unless there are other complications but in 10 years of poultry keeping i have not seen it happen.
I have had frostbite on a few and afterwards it is just natural dubbing. Minor loss of fertility to begin with in the spring then they get back in stride.
i have a roo who lives in a run with only a small plastic shelter that is open on the south side but he is the healthiest chicken i own as there are no moisture issues. No frost bite at all or signs of illness.
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I should mention that my Grandparent's chickens lived in a coop that only had a roof. The chickens could get very close to the roof on the roost. They all had single combs, mixed Mediterranean type chickens- but I have no idea if they ever got frostbite and I'm sure nobody would have cared if they did.
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I have 3 RIR living very similar to Dougs set up... 4x8x4 high outdoor run, well out of the wind, plastic covering 1/3 just to block the wind from entering the raised coop thats 2x4x2 with a door thats 20"x20".... not a spec of frostbite on his massive comb! we had -20 out at least there for a few days. I was most worried about these birds.
Im promoting the RIR as the best dual purpose bird one could ever possibly keep... there aint nothing wrong with single combed birds!
heres a nice shot of the rooster
a close up cropped pic of the one above.
A shot from the front of the pen
and heres one showing the half inch gap all around the top of the coop.
Im promoting the RIR as the best dual purpose bird one could ever possibly keep... there aint nothing wrong with single combed birds!
heres a nice shot of the rooster
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Sounds like great ventilation to me & seems to be working .Yours too Al .LuckDoug The Chickenman wrote:QR_BBPOST They will be fine it will not be infected unless there are other complications but in 10 years of poultry keeping i have not seen it happen.
I have had frostbite on a few and afterwards it is just natural dubbing. Minor loss of fertility to begin with in the spring then they get back in stride.
i have a roo who lives in a run with only a small plastic shelter that is open on the south side but he is the healthiest chicken i own as there are no moisture issues. No frost bite at all or signs of illness.
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This rooster is an americauna and he is a genetic issue as he only has one wing so he will be dog food in the spring.
We had run out of coop space for him but had a 8X8X4 with 1X1 welded wire the "coop" is just a wood frame and some 6 mm poly vapor barrier.
Ventilation is your friend and moisture is your enemy. If you go back to the forties they had big mobile coops that were opened up and in a field so they had good ventilation as well.
some of our 4X8X4 coops the top 18 Inches are all 1/2 X1/2 mesh.
We had run out of coop space for him but had a 8X8X4 with 1X1 welded wire the "coop" is just a wood frame and some 6 mm poly vapor barrier.
Ventilation is your friend and moisture is your enemy. If you go back to the forties they had big mobile coops that were opened up and in a field so they had good ventilation as well.
some of our 4X8X4 coops the top 18 Inches are all 1/2 X1/2 mesh.
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