As someone who gets cold easily and now lives in Montana, I pondered this same question a ton when I first got animals. My chickens and ducks have a snug coop but this week has been consistently -15 at night and hasn't gotten above 10 degrees during the day. I put down an extra thick layer of...
I always read threads like this one to reassure myself that my peeps will indeed be okay. Logically, I know they'll be all right. I know that they survived just fine last winter. I know that they're capable of handling cold and that the pioneers let their chickens fend for themselves and they...