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That stick-on thermometer on my coop wall was lying to me for two years.

I kept wondering why my hens stopped laying every winter despite the thermometer saying the coop was 40 degrees. Then I borrowed my neighbor's infrared thermometer and found the actual temp near the roosts was 28 degrees. Anybody switch to a digital probe with a remote display or just hang a regular thermometer at bird level?
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craig.tessa
Grabbed a probe thermometer from the hardware store and my hens laid all winter once I put it at roost height.
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the_karen
the_karen1mo ago
Interesting. Could be the wind chill factor nobody mentions.
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