I Thought My Coop Was Too Cold....

[miss_jayne]

hey, now that is classic funny!

my thermometer does read 10F today in the coop. all the chickies and turkeys are toasty as can be!

 

[Catalina]

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Even if it was only 10 F, that's still not too cold for chickens. Actually, in Minnesota here, I would think 50 would be too warm for them. Do you let them outside at all? I know my chickens HATE snow, but they will sometimes still go out where I shovel the snow away. I have oeg bantams. My coop is not heated and they are just fine as long as I put vaseline on combs and wattles.

Yeah, I let them outside.
Last week Honey had frostbite on the tip of her comb, though, so I bought a thermometer to check the temp. One for outside and one for inside the coop.
I couldn't figure out why it was warmer outside than inside the coop!

There's a lot of passive solar energy in my coop.