[muawiyah]

If you raise your chickens outdoors, they will die by the carload in Winter, they will get the bird flu in the Spring, and you'll be using a backhoe to bury them at the direction of USDA by Summer.

Best to raise your chicksns indoors, or, if you can't, eat those eggs and forget about it.

[tickmeister]

Putting this as politely and delicately as possible, BS. Like all livestock, chickens require appropriate shelter in cold weather. I do not recall that anybody ever heard of bird flu or burying chickens with backhoes until they began to be raised in industrial facilities a few years ago. I’ve raised several chickens and have a vague idea of what I speak.