Oh, wow, yep! My answer was flavored by the weather in my neck of the woods. I just re-read your posts, I have absolutely no experience dealing with the kind of cold y'all get in Northern Canada.
Well if you think about it, hatcheries take them out of the incubator and drop them in a shipping box and ship them across the country and it could be up to three days before they are in a brooder. If you move several chicks at once in a small box like a shoe box so they can huddle up against...