SOME breeds are cold hardy, and will not need as much heat as other breeds. For this, you should research about the breeds you have.
You will always be able to tell if your birds are too hot or too cold - if they are too hot, they will get as far away from each other as possible and pant. If they are too cold, they will be huddling up together. Frostbite on the combs/wattles is also a sign that your birds are too cold. You need to watch and make sure that your birds are warm enough.
When temperatures drop at night or in the winter a 150 watt red bulb will provide heat and reduce the effects of lighting strain.The birds need dark or semi dark to roost properly and the red light provides this. You should also ALWAYS provide scratch or corn for them before they roost if it is very cold. The scratch/corn will help them make body heat during the night hours.
no.
Yes, chickens need vet care when they get sick, just like any other animal.
by a couple of months old.
Warm
Heat lamps.
The geese went south for the winter and the chickens died from being the cold.
If it also has a slight discharge from it's nostrils and eyes, it has "roup", a common infectious ailment of chickens, roughly like the common cold in humans. It will recover.
Yes Cold and sudden temperature changes do affect the production rate of egg laying and more in certain breeds than others.
Yup! I think.
I would wait until the younger chickens are at least a few months old. The older chickens will peck the younger ones, but they will stop at some point.
No, chickens can't live in Antarctica. It's too cold there for any animal to live on the continent.
Yes they can. If you're chickens have crusted over nostrils, watery eyes and are snezing they probably have a cold. If it doesn't clear up in a couple of days, separate you're sick chickens from you're healthy ones. It may not be just a common cold