I use lots more absorbing bedding in the winter. I have a mix of hemp straw and paper shreds at the moment, my bedding is 35 cm deep and i have poop boards, which i clean daily.
My humidity is the same but it's only -3c.
She has calmed down a bit, but when she was a chick she would atack me, try to run from me and decides she is safe om my head, always screaming bluddy murder, annoing her sisters by thowing them of the roost. She does her name credit.
Jackass as my tax.
To reply on cold hardiness.
I have Dutch bantams. It is believed we brought them back with the VOC. Established as Dutch bantams around 1850.
Could we say they are cold hardy for here and equal circumstances?
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