Reeder Custom Guns - Got a question for some of you. It was minus 2 this morning

and they are saying up here at 8000 feet we may well have 10 below by tomorrow morning. We are also looking at temps of zero or well below for the next week or so. My questions here is the heat lamps in my chicken houses. Colleen picked up some new bulbs today for the houses but i am not sure if this is the right bulbs. She got 250 watt, infrared heat lamps. In years past I had mostly ducks and they sleep out on top of the snow. Cold doesn't bother them. But I am not sure about these lamps. I don't know if they are too much. Any ideas from the live stock guys?

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room where the birds can get away if they get too hot or crowd under if they get cold. Chickens mostly suffer with their legs, very little circulation. They can suffer feet frostbite. As long as they are not panting with their beaks open. Chicks need at least constantly 100 degrees and plenty of water.

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Here in Alaska i have an 8 x 8 insulated 2X4 wall chicken house. When temp is below zero I have two 250 watt lamps running. My mini door is just a press board 1/2 thick and close it then so the eggs don’t freeze. Above zero the door is open with a panel of turf hanging. The little draft from a cut out corner in the door allow the chickens to go out any time they want. Happy chickens happy layers. They have continous light in winter.

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ducks but maybe 50 or 60 chickens. Every time I went to Olsons, our feed store, the owner would have a different breed of baby chicks. I had to try them so I would buy 6 or 8 and then next week he would have another new breed of chicks so I ended up with another 6 or 8. As I mentioned I ended up with over 200 birds, both chickens and ducks. I had them for about 14 or 15 years, maybe a bit longer and had no problems. My hen house then was 25 X 20 feet. I had some health problems crop up and hauling 50 gallons of water twice a day for the ducks got to be too hard plus when I went off to Africa or wherever Colleen would have to take care of them so I sold them and converted that big hen house into a tool shed. Last spring I decided to get back into chickens but not big time. I bought 10 chicks and built a 10 X 8 hen house. This one wasn't as well insulated as the old one. That was why I was a bit skeptical. I just checked the birds and all seems to be well. One of my hens turned out gay so I have 9 layers and get 9 eggs every day.
Thanks for the ideas guys.

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That does make a difference. I have seen 25 below zero here a couple of times.

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Producer's pride makes a nifty little infrared heater that works in two modes, brooder (low energy) and heater mode. Here's a link on amazon to chekc it out https://www.amazon.com/Producers-Pride-Brooder-Coop-Heater/dp/B08T9ZM1SR

I'm out here in Fort Valley with you and wasn't going to put in any heating element in my coop, but I've changed my mind. I'm gonna mount it in there tomorrow. I've asked a lot of other hen owners and most of them out here and in Williams don't add any heaters, and they feel it's unnecessary unless you are in the extremes for long periods of time. But I'm on the side of keeping the girls happy so they make more eggs.

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Got a question for some of you. It was minus 2 this morning

That's what we use here in AR. We try to allow

Heat lamps

In the past I have had up to 200 birds, mostly

Yes but you don't have 10 degrees below zero either

Check this out Gary

Thanks, I'll give that a try.