Advice for telling new chicken keepers

[CoffeeintheCoop]

Yeah, and I told her that chicken diapers probably need changed often, she keeps the front door open and they go in and out but are mostly out in the yard all day and roost over a washable matt at night

I asked about this very idea on another thread and was told that this is a bad idea. I'm in Illinois USA where we get true cold winters. And I was asking about 3 month old chickens who have been in the house brooding until a week ago, at which point I started putting them into an outside porch during just the day to start moving them into their outdoor run and coop.

So is it possible to have chickens sleep inside, in an unheated utility zone, but a house heated to 68 degrees, and allowed outdoors with shelter during the day during winter?

It is frosting at night. I just checked them on my porch because I left them out there last night, and only 1 of 4 was laying down on her feet. This is a flock of small, slow developers that want to be coddled, and I'm happy to do it.

But I was told no on my thread.

They would still have the exterior porch as a playpen this winter, no matter what, for extreme weather. We can get days far below zero, and they have about 4 or 5 square feet per hen indoors for those horrible days.

 

[Emma_Bruffy]

I asked about this very idea on another thread and was told that this is a bad idea. I'm in Illinois USA where we get true cold winters. And I was asking about 3 month old chickens who have been in the house brooding until a week ago, at which point I started putting them into an outside porch during just the day to start moving them into their outdoor run and coop.

So is it possible to have chickens sleep inside, in an unheated utility zone, but a house heated to 68 degrees, and allowed outdoors with shelter during the day during winter?

It is frosting at night. I just checked them on my porch because I left them out there last night, and only 1 of 4 was laying down on her feet. This is a flock of small, slow developers that want to be coddled, and I'm happy to do it.

But I was told no on my thread.

They would still have the exterior porch as a playpen this winter, no matter what, for extreme weather. We can get days far below zero, and they have about 4 or 5 square feet per hen indoors for those horrible days.

In my area winter dosent get that extreme. It goes down to 55 degrees F max, but I will let her know about this though