I know, another cold weather question...
LOL!
Anyway, the temps will be reaching 15 degrees tonight and I'm naturally worried about my birds being cold. Since where they are housed is a little off the norm, being it's not actual coops they are in, I was hoping for some insight.
My chickens (53) are kept in an old dairy-converted-to-horse barn. So they have their "coops" in concrete block stalls (with concrete floors). The block goes up to about 4.5ft and the rest is open. They share the barn with 7 horses. Now I'm not too worried about the flocks of 4-14, it's the single cell (LOL!) boys that live in large metal dog crates, directly on the floor that worry me the most. I have put in extra hay with the one I'm most concerned for (a Silkie) and the others have hay too. Do you think they will be okay? Any other suggestions? I do have heat lamps but I'm neurotically paranoid about fire....

Anyway, the temps will be reaching 15 degrees tonight and I'm naturally worried about my birds being cold. Since where they are housed is a little off the norm, being it's not actual coops they are in, I was hoping for some insight.
My chickens (53) are kept in an old dairy-converted-to-horse barn. So they have their "coops" in concrete block stalls (with concrete floors). The block goes up to about 4.5ft and the rest is open. They share the barn with 7 horses. Now I'm not too worried about the flocks of 4-14, it's the single cell (LOL!) boys that live in large metal dog crates, directly on the floor that worry me the most. I have put in extra hay with the one I'm most concerned for (a Silkie) and the others have hay too. Do you think they will be okay? Any other suggestions? I do have heat lamps but I'm neurotically paranoid about fire....
