One of my chickens is molting HARD and the weather is well below freezing tonight. The coop has a heater that keeps it above freezing, and I've put her between 2 other hens at the heater end of the roost, but she's got hardly anything to fluff, and I'd feel horrible if she froze.
Today she stayed inside the coop while the others free-ranged; I don't think we got above freezing today.
I can move her into my back room overnight, but I'd have to stick a heat lamp over her or give her a space heater because otherwise it's basically the same temp as the coop. It's not such a big cage that she'd have much choice of how far away to move from the lamp, so I'd want to get the temp right.
So what temperature is comfy for a naked chicken? Is she better off snuggled with her sisters than alone inside?
Today she stayed inside the coop while the others free-ranged; I don't think we got above freezing today.
I can move her into my back room overnight, but I'd have to stick a heat lamp over her or give her a space heater because otherwise it's basically the same temp as the coop. It's not such a big cage that she'd have much choice of how far away to move from the lamp, so I'd want to get the temp right.
So what temperature is comfy for a naked chicken? Is she better off snuggled with her sisters than alone inside?