Heating Lamp in winter?

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Heat lamps are a gamble. Are you a gambler? Unfortunately too many folks lose their coops and chickens each year to heat lamp fires.

Chickens in general are okay without extra heat with proper housing, and wind breaks. There are safer products like wall panels and heated roosts if you feel it's necessary.

Adding any extra heat will interfere with the acclamation process, so if they lose the heat they will not be equipped to survive without it.

Chickens will develop a deep thick down coat. They will pull their necks down in cold weather and sit down on their feet more to warm them up, so thick bedding is always welcome in winter. Good wide roosts will help them cover their toes properly on the roosts at night.

I have never added extra heat, and never will here.

 

[aart]

It is of course, difficult or impossible to read any coop venting, but the "safe middle ground" is large enough for the actual numbers to be quite rounded.

So did you use one of those to measure yours?

 

[RoosterML]

You can not accurately use a gauge to calculate the ventilation in a coop via vent openings with windows and doors. Reading will always change with different outdoor conditions. That gauge can only be accurately used for a fan based system which will always have a constant cfm flow.