Yes, lots and lots of layers!!! Sometimes three layers for me (not including outerwear)! My poor daughter has a backpack full after you pack her everday school items and then the snowpants and winter boots. Morning temps have been as low as -1 degrees in my area recently. It has warmed up to the low 20s during the day, though. It is quite frigid!
My birds don't have a heater or anything. They do just fine. They generally don't like going outside the coop when it's this cold and usually windy. If February brings even colder temps (like -10), I may plug in the heat lamp for them.
My aunt and her family live in Huntington Beach, CA (very warm winter temps -- like 65 + degrees). So we always laugh when they visit in the winter. The last time they were here, we had a heat wave. Daytime temps hit 40 degrees -- a few days prior the temps had been in the high teens/low twenties. They were freezing and we were all singing "we're havin' a heat wave, a tropical heat wave."
Stay toasty!
