Odd my girls are outside the moment its dawn.they stay outside all day and until its past dark which I think is really strange..vampire chickens! They are only in the coop to sleep, lay eggs or make sure there are no treats in there that may have been missed.summer or winter they are hardly in...
Ohh they aren't all adults. I have five adults and (had)three four month olds in there w out enough down feathers to keep from getting too cold. (We lost one blown out in a storm at night and she just sat inches from the door back in and got hypothermic...struggled for wks w the vet to save her...
:/This is our first winter with our chickee doos! We live in oregon the weather can go from mild and raining to ice storms and severe winds. My girls have a coop with a heat lamp pointed one direction so they can either be under the heat or in the cooler parts of the coop.it hovers around 50 ish...