You don't need a Sweeter Heater, get a safe infrared panel like the Cozy Coop if you like, which goes on sale once or twice a year, besides being 1/3 the cost of a Sweeter Heater anyway. It can help raise the local temp just enough, and those that need it can snuggle up
https://www.chewy.com/cozy-products-flat-panel-chicken-coop/dp/169444?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Cozy Products&utm_campaign=20395141803&utm_term=&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA7t6sBhAiEiwAsaieYlrEkza3WGF0ENhogFl-vv_q3rqmS1-E3uO6RXrviGEuCOdRMgjWBhoCwZMQAvD_BwE
That is what I use. Perfectly safe. It will not set anything on fire.
 
I'm going to guess, and truly it's a guess, but one based on observation, that chickens go into a trance of sorts while dustbathing, like they do with a broody trance. If so, then the physical-mental bond of doing that activity takes a few minutes to undo if it's interrupted. When they dustbathe, it seems to develop into a focus that appears so intense sometimes! I see it in their expressions, they are feeling / thinking just the physical experience, they're not really "looking" at anything.

P.S. Human pictures for tax, we are in a mirror-image world now!
So you’ve seen them go totally trance-like! I wonder what would happen if a bullied hen were in the bath and another came to peck at her… would she just avoid going into too deep of a trance so she could run away as needed?
 

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