I am in Western N.C. in the Smokeys, which seems to be a cooler part of the state. The first year I went overboard with red heat lamps, and other non-sence like worry about snow and cold rain. They did fine. Now I gave up on hear lamps, snow shoveling, and all that stuff. Fresh water, fairly clean coop, and a light to give some more daylight when production goes too far down, and they do fine. They live in a solid uninsulated coop, no heat, no nothing but reasonable good care. I do have a box/silkey garage for babys and silkey that seem to not do as well in the cold. (mostly for non-roosting birds) They have hatched chicks on Christmas day with 100% survival and no intervention or heat from me, except chick starter and water close to the babys.
