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Quote: Ya, that's largely what I have in mind. I'm going to create a ceiling over the coop portion of the shed we are building at around 5' or so. That ceiling will be framed strong enough to walk upon. A sheet of plywood will be removable for the warm months, and closed for the winter...

Quote: I figure we will have one of the digital remote thermometers so that we can watch it from indoors. One in the greenhouse as well.

Colleen - there are a large number of posts about DLM. I'd suggest you run a few searches as there is a wealth of information on the board concerning this. Also, please note that I mis-typed earlier. DO NOT use cedar - I meant pine. Cedar puts off fumes that are bad for the chickens. As for...

There was a post a while back which talked about the fact that chickens have a natural ability to withstand colder weather than we humans, and that as she introduced heating (via light bulbs) that her birds gradually succumbed to illness. Her point was that they were just fine before she tried...