After reading your article I went out to my chicken run and decided it was a good time to see how the chicks would do outside, we are between 70's during the day and getting down to 50's at night. we had a small coop that that the Big Girls don't use any more. Since we only have the 2 chicks it will be just the right size for them and it is completely secure and it is inside the run so the rest of the girls can see them but not touch.