How many of you let your chickens free range in the wintertime?

[gritsar]

A.T. Hagan :

All year round. Snow is not a problem in Florida.

Yeah well, at the rate y'all are going and winter not being over yet....

Sorry, being Florida cracker born I couldn't help myself.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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Yeah well, at the rate y'all are going and winter not being over yet....

Sorry, being Florida cracker born I couldn't help myself.

Let's not GO THERE, ok?

 

[Inkheart]

Mine are free range all year - tho they rarely leave the barn to go outside in weather like this and with the winds we have had and single digit weather i havent let them out every day - but today they could go out but i bet they havent! LOL Spolied brats

 

[mississippifarmboy]

What's the temps like there today A. T.? It's in the 50's here today... a regular heat wave!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

At four in the afternoon it's a pleasant 66 and a bit breezy.

Another front coming through tomorrow and Saturday then it'll cool off again, but so far they're not predicting anything as cold as the last couple. Looks like I may not have to do the water thawing thing for a few days.

 

[somissemilyy]

I let them out a lot in the winter ONLY when it's a nice day outside. If it's below freezing it depends, but mostly not. But if the sun is out, you can count on it!

 

[LeezyBeezy]

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Ditto. Mine hang out in the barn, but they *could* go out if they wanted. We had a weird warm day the other day- like 50- and rain, and they were out all day in it, happily scratching in the leaves. Today ist was sunny and about 24, never saw 'em!

 

[NarleevilleClucks]

My chickens won't come out of the coop if there is snow on the ground. This a.m. they came out to free range int he a.m. like always, and then it snowed! They hung out under the deck, but wouldn't cross the snow to go back to their coop at dusk! I was out there at dusk wrangling hens and putting them up on the roosts so they could benefit from the communal warmth of each other (there are only 4 standards and a bantam). Other than these weather interferences they come out in the a.m., free range all day, and then return to their coop at dusk like good chics should!

 

[annie3001]

ours free range till night time... or i go out.... i lock them up in the run...at night when us humans go to bed, they are locked in their coop. they come very easily to the coop when called.

 

[Beekissed]

I free range all year and my chickens do go out in the single digit weather and in the snows unless it is deeper than they are. They don't, however, like subzero winds and will stick to the coop when the frigid winds blow.