Several years ago, just a few days before Christmas, a powerful cold front dipped down from Canada and sent most of the country into the single digits. As a cherry on top, it also brought with it howling winds, ice and heavy snow.
On our Tennessee homestead, we knew it was coming. We prepared with extra feed and bedding for our livestock and lined our coop with empty feed bags to cut out drafts.
However, despite everything we did to prepare and keep our flock protected from the winds, which hit negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit during this storm, a few birds developed frostbite.