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Homes & Gardens
Teresa Conway

How to keep chickens warm in winter – experts weigh in on the dos and don'ts for your backyard birds

Three Amrock Bantam cocks pecking at the snow.

If you keep chickens in your backyard there's a high chance you're extremely attached to them. Watching them peck around outdoors in bitterly cold weather, however, may mean you're anxious to learn how to keep chickens warm in winter. 

If my mom is anything to go by, at the sign of the slightest wind and rain she will stare concernedly out of the window and say: 'I hope the chickens are alright in this weather.'

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