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Not trying to start an argument AT ALL, but I wonder if you have considered this. In our rural area black outs or power failures are common twice a year - winter and late summer. If I had to guess I'd say we've had at least a dozen power outages since early May. I've lost three hens this summer. As sad as that is, they simply weren't equipped to handle our record high temperatures. The rest of the birds are now doing fine, though two struggled.
Had I air conditioned their coops and got them all used to being cooled off, they would have been ill-equipped to handle the heat during a power failure. Same thing goes for wintertime and artificially heating the coops. I miss those hens, two were absolute favorites, but I've learned it's a matter of survival of the fittest.
Just my take on things.
Not trying to start an argument AT ALL, but I wonder if you have considered this. In our rural area black outs or power failures are common twice a year - winter and late summer. If I had to guess I'd say we've had at least a dozen power outages since early May. I've lost three hens this summer. As sad as that is, they simply weren't equipped to handle our record high temperatures. The rest of the birds are now doing fine, though two struggled.
Had I air conditioned their coops and got them all used to being cooled off, they would have been ill-equipped to handle the heat during a power failure. Same thing goes for wintertime and artificially heating the coops. I miss those hens, two were absolute favorites, but I've learned it's a matter of survival of the fittest.
Just my take on things.
