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i want chickens where are you supposed to keep them will they freeze if you keep them outside in lik2007-11-24 17:22:35

i live in georgia, usa. so its not that cold in the winter, but still very chilly.

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have someone you know like your husband if your married friend or someone build a chicken coop and buy feeders and waters

it's best if you get an automatic water and feeder so you don't have to feed them for for little bit to start get one rooster male

and seven hens females and then if you want to get more don't buy any buy an incubator and put the eggs in it and mark a little x and date and put the in it and wait 21 days and if they are fertile they will hatch sometimes they will not but be careful and candle them to a light turn them every 1 hour and spray them with well water and that is the basic if you don't want to build one just order on off the URL I'm giving you can get a catalog for free

here it is http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/.

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put them in a chicken coop. why on earth do you want chickens? smelly, dirty birds.

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Your build a fenced in area or your yard with a simple shed so that they can roost at night. depending on where you live and how dedicated you want to be to the chickens depends on if they will freeze. You can buy a pet safe heater to keep in the coop if you live up north but as long as it doesn't snow or get cold enough to snow where you are they should be ok.

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I keep them in Dunnellon, Fl, where the climate is the same as S. Georgia. There is nothing that the climate here can do to a chicken in the winter. I have wrapped a piece of fabric around the metal rail where they preferred to roost on the coldest of nights, and they didn't bother to use it.