for chick coop

Typical week here in Virginia weatherwise. Shorts and tee shirt weather one day and a frost the next night. The garden is booming and I'm picking tons of salad greens every day for us and for the chickens and ducks. I go back and forth from closing up the chicken coop windows at night to opening them wide on warm days. The animals all seem to take the wide temperature swings in stride, although our horses and ducks have grown in very thick fluffy coats this fall....hmmm, I'm thinking they know something we don't and we're in for a longer colder winter than usual.