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Do chikens ever freeze? #6446037
01/30/19 09:50 PM
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We had chickens all the durimg my youth. Never knew one to freeze. A friends cat froze one night in his driveway. Cat had never been inside.

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446041
01/30/19 09:53 PM
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I've always had chickens around, and don't recall any freezing. Roosters combs will freeze and turn black, but if the birds have shelter from the wind, feed and water they can handle the cold well.

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446054
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Seen a pig eat a rabbit once that was froze to apiece of plywood.


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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446056
01/30/19 10:02 PM
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The combs on our hens had a touch of frostbite this morning. We have a very well insulated coop but the wind was strong last night with air temp at -25 F!

Chris


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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446068
01/30/19 10:07 PM
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Yes they can. I had one several years ago that froze to death during a winter storm when the temps dropped below -35. The chicken was an older bird and always had her own spot on the roost and did not roost tight with the rest of the flock. I found her dead in the morning.

I now add a few extra heat lamps by the roost just to add a little more heat.


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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446147
01/30/19 10:44 PM
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We use to feed more cracked corn during the cold weathah


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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446150
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There frozen at the grocery store

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: Boco] #6446169
01/30/19 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Boco
Seen a pig eat a rabbit once that was froze to apiece of plywood.



Teaching moment right there.


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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446176
01/30/19 11:10 PM
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We had chickens for years, and they were half wild.....roosting in the trees as often as not. They suffered from the cold as any animal will. Their combs, as stated above, will freeze and blacken, then slough off. We had an old rooster----sort of a family pet, he was found the day after hatching, in the nest of his dead mother that was killed and hauled off by some beast of the night. He had one live sister, plus a crippled brother that survived that night too. That old rooster out lived every one of our flock. I don't remember how old he was, but his spurs were 2+ inches long. I felt sorry for the old bird and would bring him in my shop at night to roost in a corner not far from the woodstove. I may have accidently caused his death by doing that. It seems he became unable to tolerate the cold. I found him one afternoon hunched up in behind a board in the corner of the outside wall of my shop. He was about dead and it took most of the afternoon for him to thaw out enough to act normal. About a month later I was up running a trapline in the U.P. when my All Purpose Boy found him in the same shape up against the barn door. He was done for good that time. I believe he became too used to heat in my shop....sorta de-accustomed to the cold if you will. I actually kept him in my freezer for a few months, them mounted that old bird for display.


Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: amspoker] #6446186
01/30/19 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by amspoker
Originally Posted by Boco
Seen a pig eat a rabbit once that was froze to apiece of plywood.



Teaching moment right there.

That’s no joke.


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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: bhugo] #6446222
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Fowl have high rates of metabolism and most run about 108 degrees as average body temp so if you can keep them out of the wind so their feathers keep fluffed over their body and enough food and water they can take a lot of cold weather. Some of the more exotic breeds that originated in warmer regions of the world may not have evolved as most of the common breeds we know.

Bryce

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446270
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Feet and combs will get frostbite but my girls have heat and I use 2X4s for their roosts that way they can cover their feet with their bodies unlike a round pole roost the exposes more of the feet. With just 1 heat lamp (250w) the upper part of the coop stays around 50 above even at -2.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446328
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I feed my miniature bunny's more corn and they have a heated pad to sit on, bunny barn is sealed from weather with clear plastic and cardboard

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446329
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Ive never lost one to cold, they lay less though.


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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446351
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No, they just chill out.

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446426
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We lost our little bantam rooster yesterday. He was fine little after 3, he came to the back door and my wife fed him some scraps like always. I went outside later and found him dead. Not sure if the wind chilled him too much or if it was just his time. Gonna be quiet around here now.

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446473
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Wife saw where a bunch of chicken-minded folks are bringing their chickens inside the basement and setting up little tents to keep them in. I think I'll bring the cows and pigs inside too.


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Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: M.Magis] #6446479
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Originally Posted by M.Magis
We lost our little bantam rooster yesterday. He was fine little after 3, he came to the back door and my wife fed him some scraps like always. I went outside later and found him dead. Not sure if the wind chilled him too much or if it was just his time. Gonna be quiet around here now.

That's to bad, we have 4 bantam roosters I would hate to loose one of them little guys. They think they're the toughest guys around!

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446485
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The wind and moisture is the enemy when its cold. When we had chickens, in the winter I would make sure the vent wasn't clogged and would close half of the coop up so they would be closer together. They would only go outside to eat and drink. Keeping fresh water un frozen water for them was my biggest worry.

Re: Do chikens ever freeze? [Re: charles] #6446583
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I have lost a few in the winter. Did they freeze to death, who knows? I had a perfectly nice barn for them to get into but they prefered to roost in the trees outside. Maybe they feel safer outside.


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