Rural Gardening: My chicken is stylin in her new coat, 1 by green04735

green04735 wrote:
I am so thankful for this site,I would never have thought of making a coat for my hen that lost all her back feathers cause the rooster loves her so much.I got the pattern from cMoxon and made it the other day but had to wait for my DH to get home off the road(hes a truck driver) and help me with it because she is not used to being handled,but she was good and calm and I think she really likes it,I put her back in the coop and noone seemed to notice anything differant about her.I`ll see in the morning if she keeps it on all night,I hope so cause its really cold here and only up to 4 tomorow,I keep them in when its that cold,I have been keeping a 250 watt red heat light going going 24 7 so they won`t be to cold,it keeps it about 25 to 30 degrees in there if the wind does not blow.I found the ACV in the health food store today and am going to give that to them all winter to keep them healthy,thats ok to do that isn`t it?I allso started giving them minched garlic every day in there greens that I give them,I told my customers if the eggs started tasting like garlic let me know.Thanks again everyone for the wonderful info I get on here as I am a new with the chickens,have had them since May.