Last night was the first night our girls got to feel what it is like to sleep in freezing temps, (we live in KS). Well, they would have gotten to feel the cold. Instead, I did yesterday what I had been meaning to do since I built the coop. I ran electricity to it and plugged in a brooder lamp for heat and set it on a timer. Also, it is secured three different ways to the coop so there is virtually no way it can fall into the wood chips on the floor and start a fire. I was concerned a heat lamp bulb would be a little much and knew the girls just needed to have the edge taken off the cold so I just used a 100 watt bulb instead. The light came on at sundown and stayed on till about 9:30 then it came on for thirty minutes every hour and a half until about 5:30 this morning when it came on and remained on till the sun was fully warming their run at about 9:am.
Haha, yay me! Small victories make me smile.![]()
Hi kinda neighbor!

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