Chicks and hens during the winter
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Tami
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Can you bring your chicks and hens inside during the winter?
14 answers
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If they are the hardy Hens and Chicks there is no need to bring them inside.The are perennials conditioned to stay outside.
Janet Pizaro
on Jan 04, 2016
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It's been a very very long time since I had chickens! But unless the temps are below -10 I'd think they'll handle the cold. If you have a chicken coop/house you might want to insulate it if it goes below -15 but as I said, it's been a long time since i kept chickens.
Patches
on Jan 05, 2016
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Don't know where you are located. My aunt had a bucket of them on her front porch for years in the Kansas City, Mo area. No need to bring them in.
Sandy Jackson
on Jan 05, 2016
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Oh that's hilarious!!! I needed that laugh. I've heard of the plant of course but recent thoughts have been taken up with a friend and her addition of chickens to her organic efforts and the reference was pets & Animals, Homesteading.
Patches
on Jan 05, 2016
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You guys are just too funny. I live in Ontario, Canada and you do not have to bring these plants inside.
Kim
on Jan 05, 2016
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Mine have been outside for years. Never had a problem with them.
Loretta
on Jan 05, 2016
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I live in the mountains in B.C, and just really wanted to bring in 3 containers of Hens and Chicks to see what would happen. Jan. and they are sending out shoots like crazy, staying a lovely fresh green and keeping things cheerful against an incredibly deep ,but beautiful snowfall.
Nat rostad
on Jan 05, 2016
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I live in NW Missouri and was given 10 of these plants. I wasn't familiar with their care and worried the first winter, as they're in a HUGE concrete planter and I can't move them. Welll, come spring, the hard freeze thawed, as did they, and on the 3rd winter the planter is so full I've been pulling them and giving them away. Reminds me of when, as a child, a "friend" gave me 5 guppies LMSO!
Jeannie Carle
on Jan 05, 2016
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They can withstand the elements, however I usualy bring mine up on the porch out of direct frost etc and they have done well!
Buster Evans
on Jan 05, 2016
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I leave mine outside the color changes to a dark burgundy during the winter months.
Hyacinth W
on Jan 05, 2016
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OMG, I thought you meant baby chickens and their moms. LOL After reading previous posts, I see I am not the only one.
Charlotte
on Jan 05, 2016
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I had these in cold New York. I mulched them but never moved them. They still came back every single year and multiplied like crazy no matter how cold. Amazing! Wish my mums here in Va. were that hardy. Now I give away the excess.
Dee B
on Jan 05, 2016
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I'd put a heater in the coop.
Grady
on Jan 12, 2016
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I just gotta laugh. I thought you wanted to bring them in to your house. Immediately, I could vision them running around the living room or around your kitchen table. Then again, you could put them in the basement if you have one. It's so cold outside they might just jump in the bed with you.
861650
on Jan 13, 2016
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