{"id":170,"date":"2014-01-25T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/?p=170"},"modified":"2014-03-11T17:07:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:07:53","slug":"keeping-your-chickens-warm-but-not-roasted-during-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/2014\/01\/keeping-your-chickens-warm-but-not-roasted-during-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Your Chickens Warm (But Not Roasted!) During The Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the winter, on days that are below 32 degrees farenheit (a few degrees below won&#8217;t hurt) you should not let your chickens out of the coop.\u00a0 Even though they can still go back in the coop, the cold air will make the coop colder as well.\u00a0 Also, chickens, like humans, can get frostbite, (except they can get on their comb!) when they are out in below-freezing temperatures for a long period of time.\u00a0 The advice I an giving for keeping your chickens warm during the winter:\u00a0 Like I said before, keep the chickens in the coop on days below freezing.\u00a0 This way, no cold can get in, and with all the chickens generating body heat, if you have enough chickens, the coop should be fairly warm.\u00a0 The last two ideas are having a heat lamp on the ceiling to keep the coop extra warm, and make sure you give the chickens corn every day.\u00a0 The corn helps them generate more body heat.\u00a0 Hope these tips help in keeping your chickens warm this winter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the winter, on days that are below 32 degrees farenheit (a few degrees below won&#8217;t hurt) you should not let your chickens out of the coop.\u00a0 Even though they can still go back in the coop, the cold air will make the coop colder as well.\u00a0 Also, chickens, like humans, can get frostbite, (except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,44,3,33],"tags":[5,100,101],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-news","category-farm-reflections","category-farming","category-pets","tag-chickens","tag-farm-news","tag-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}