Russell Roberts lol me to bud me too

50 Acres & a Cabin, I wish I could say that has always been the case but we made the mistake years ago of just trusting him and needless to say his name was chicken killer for awhile (not humorously either). We like to free range our birds so it needed to be done but it took about 6 months of solid training to get him to understand they are part of the pack and higher up than him. He lets them eat out of his food bowl now and lays with them but I will probably mention it at some point in a future video since I know other people have this issue as well.

@@SimpleLivingAlaska Oh ok that makes more sense now. My girl would have probably accidentally killed them, maybe chewed on one or two. Thats great that you were able to train him.

Lol! Mine too!

@@donaldmiller8629 I was ok at training my lab in some ways, in others not so much. I never could get her to behave on walks despite a lot of different techniques. She was never in a position to kill any chicks but I knew her personality and she'd have played them to death. She lived to be 14 and a half years old and passed away almost 1 year ago.

Same here are new puppy is crazy

Lorene Knight thank you! We have so much to learn :) Happy Holidays!

50 Acres & a Cabin, thank you. I think we look like we know what we are doing more so than we actually know what we're doing :) Do you have future plans for any livestock at your cabin?

@@SimpleLivingAlaska In the immediate future no, but if I ever find myself living there full time I have always wanted chickens and goats. My land is probably ideal for goats.

Bantamdude Rodriguez, great idea! Thank you :)

Hope This Work 'Our Homestead' Thank you! This wil be our first experience with the hens hatching chicks. We like the open front design to allow for good ventilation. That is awesome you have materials to repurpose :)

Great chicken hut they should do well in there,keep them warm and well fed and watered and they will soon turn into productive mature birds,Somerset mike.

J K, thank you :) I am hoping that as well!

Clive Bashford, great point, they are hopefully only going to be on during storms in the winter, right now they seem to help keep the coop warmer until they get more feathers :)

Kayla Albers, Thanks! :)

Chris grant, thank you! :)

Erin Owens, we do have a heat lamp on them at night and during the day right now since the temps dropped down. I'm guessing that will be the case until they get a little older. I am thinking we will have those covers on quite a bit during the winter to help with snow blowing in, we get to around -30 here as well and I love the idea of your waterer system. We are fond of the nipple waterers however I am not sure we will be able to run a submersible water heater. We have a small solar system so every thing adds up, we do plan to have a non heat lamp for daylight and are planning to change water out multiple times a day (boil on the woodstove), although I imagine this will get quite exhaustive and living through that cold this past winter I must say even warm water still freezes pretty fast! Thanks for the tips, we will look into the aquarium heater :)

Holly in the Ozarks, thank you! We appreciate you commenting :)

Bettina H, we liked our chicken tractors but we don't have good pasture here and quite a bit of the land is a muskeg so we're hoping the woods works for them and they can hangout with us when we are around :)

Simple Living Alaska yes I understand why you are doing it that way. If I had chickens I would probably have a main stationary coop anyway at least for winter. And then maybe a tractor for the summer. But moot point at the moment. :(

Thomas Schauss, I generally put more too but "looked it up" for the sake of the video and that is what I read...should just stick to what I actually do :)

SunnySlope Homestead thanks for joining us! 😎✌

Absolutely correct. I was cringing when she said the temperatures.

Have you heard her talk about this particular breed that are especially for cold areas like there's. The temps for theirs are different than yours.