Live in AZ desert. LOVE my girls. They love to dust bathe in the sand. We use straw in the coop (deep bedding) and nesting boxes, and let the ladies run around the yard for a couple hours a day. We get below freezing only once in a blue moon, so we only hv one solid wall on the coop to block...
We are new to chickens. Have had 2 bantams since July who are just fine and housed outside. Got 3 day-old barred rocks on October 18th. One of the babies was a little unsteady starting a week or so ago. Kind of like she had a leg that fell asleep. This morning she was very wobbly...