Seems like a lucky break with your buddy's tool.

My uncle in Minnesota paints his boat shed every fall when it's below freezing. He uses an alkyd enamel and adds a Japan drier, those little metal tubes from the hardware store. He thins it just a bit with mineral spirits and it cures rock hard. The key is you have to use oil based products, not that water based latex stuff. Cold makes latex dry weird because the water can't evaporate right, but solvents don't care as much. So I'd say you can absolutely paint in the cold, you just have to pick the right paint and know how to tweak it.

That point from @jana_price about hens living longer back then is huge. Makes you wonder if we're basically running them into the ground for eggs.

So you're saying all that wild spray paint magic is just a fancy paint by numbers? Guess I'll go tell my cousin his graffiti career needs more "good color blocking" and less soul.

Forget the goat, the flags cost how much?