Ok, here's the deal with the low temp, the innermost fowl will be sitting at unsafe temperatures for many hours if you try to smoke it low, so most people will smoke it at higher temps to get the inside out of the danger zone as soon as possible...I have a Digi-Q type temp control hooked to a fan, so it's easy for me...I start at 300 until the inner thermometer gets to 140 (typically a couple hours), then I take it down to 225 to finish (another 7-8 hrs) until the thermometer reads 165...if I recall the last one I did was about 30 pounds, so adjust accordingly