7 Sure-Fire Tips and Tricks for Keeping Your Chickens Healthy Through Winter

It’s the middle of winter. You’re getting very few eggs from your flock, if any at all. They’re still in the stages of seasonal feather loss and feather growth, or they’re just finishing up their last molt.

With their reproductive systems taking a rest and your chickens shedding their coats, winter is an important time for them to rebuild their nutrient reserves and renew their feathers for the year.

Many chickens cease laying during molting as they need to channel all that energy — and all...