7C (45F) and "feels like" almost the same. Wind and gusts both <10mph, hazy blue skies with around 30-40% cloud cover. Air feels unusually dry for 90% humidity.
Tomorrow's forecast is the same.
I have a pullet raising chicks in the winter here. I've intervened a bit more because my chickens survive more due to lack of danger than actually being good at survival but I would've let a more feral hen crack on and do her own thing if she seemed half sensible.
(Mine sat in a coop nest box...
Almost - days will get slightly longer every day after the solstice, but the earliest sunset happens before the solstice and the latest sunrise doesn't happen until after.
This is one of the premade types you can buy - depending on the size of mesh it might or might not be possible to fit it with the water tank on the outside of the brooder, without unscrewing the arm the nipple is attached to.
You can buy just the nipples themselves and fit them to any type of...
Just the standard vertical poultry drinker nipples are fine for chicks. You can either buy readymade waterers with them, or just buy the nipples to diy your own.
I HATE those things, it's the clicky needle that gets me 🤢 I always refuse and insist on drawing my own venous sample if the person doing the test can't or won't.