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Thanks for your input everyone!

Very good. I will.

All very good points! Last winter they were in a section of the goat barn. It was not much warmer than the outside temperature. I tried to keep them at 0 degrees F with the heat lamps. The new coop is already proving that it is staying warmer than the barn. It has a large window, and during...

I am just talking about adult chickens. They have movd to their new coop since last winter. It is an insulated coop within an insulated garage. It has some passive ventilation to the garage side, an exhaust fan (that would be off during outages), and a large window that can be opened.

There is no “typical”. Things are changing as the climate changes. We haven’t had an outage longer than 2 days, but trying to prepare for longer outages.

We are having a power outage right now, due to a wet snow storm. It is currently not very cold (33*F), but it has us thinking about and preparing for when it is real winter weather and this happens. We are in Manitoba, Canada. Our temperatures last winter went down to -36*F, and not just for a...