And here absolutely everything breaks down when it gets to -5 or so!greatgardener wrote:
-43 degrees last winter here... and my laying hens still alive...
Like your hen house. And your hens must be a very hardy breed...
And here absolutely everything breaks down when it gets to -5 or so!greatgardener wrote:
-43 degrees last winter here... and my laying hens still alive...
Years and years ago when I was a lad, we built a chicken house by driving posts into the ground to make walls, which were then covered with wire netting on both sides. The space between the netting was then tightly packed with hay, which remarkably was not pecked by the hens.ojay54 wrote: Would straw do as well as your insulation medium?