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Thank you to all of you who posted your advice and experience and photos. All of your input regarding how hardy chickens are in cold weather is reassuring, because although I've heard it before, it just seems so odd tromping up to the coop through the snow after donning a parka and winter boots but treating the girls pretty much the way I did when I was delivering them their food in shorts and a t-shirt. I think part of my problem adapting is that Colorado has such wild temperature swings. We've had a few nights with a light frost followed by days in the high 60s and then suddenly WHAM, it's in the teens. I didn't have much chance to say, "OK, they seem fine at 30 degrees, I guess they'll be fine at 25 degrees." "Yup, they were OK at 25 degrees, they should be fine tonight at 20 degrees." And so forth. One day it's warm and the next day WINTER HAS ARRIVED!
I will follow your advice and let them out as much as they seem to want to be out. I do need to invest in some sort of heated water bowl, but otherwise, I guess I'm set.
I will follow your advice and let them out as much as they seem to want to be out. I do need to invest in some sort of heated water bowl, but otherwise, I guess I'm set.
