how cold is too cold for 6 week old chicks?

Yes they are now 6 week old chicks. All are fully feathered accept a few,maybe 3 or 4,they don't act cold. I have really worked with them to keep them going. I lost 14 the first four days I had them. I have had bantams since I was a child , raising my own and buying from others or hatcheries and never had this problem.

OF65 said:

Yes they are now 6 week old chicks. All are fully feathered accept a few,maybe 3 or 4,they don't act cold. I have really worked with them to keep them going. I lost 14 the first four days I had them. I have had bantams since I was a child , raising my own and buying from others or hatcheries and never had this problem.

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Probably best of you start a new thread in the Quail forum:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/quail.48/

chicks in NH said:

I have been wondering the same thing about cold temps and my 6 week old leghorns and golden comets. It has been in the 50's and a cold rain...they huddle together in a corner under their coop. Question...when will they learn to go into their coop to get out of the chill? or maybe they won't? It has been 4 days and nights in their pen and I still have to pick them all up at dusk and put them in their coop. What is the "learning curve" on them going to the coop by themselves?

We are going camping for Memorial day and I have people coming to chicken sit, but had hoped they would just start putting themselves to bed

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I have 11 chick's ranging in age from 6 - 7 weeks. They have been in the coop for almost 2 weeks. The first three days in the coop, I never let them out to the run. Day 4 I let them out, and now when the sun goes down, they put themselves to bed in their coop.

My 4-week-olds have been outside since they were 3w6d and it has been highs in the high 50s to low 60s, and lows in the 40s. I don’t think you have anything to worry about with chicks the age of yours.

animalcule said:

My 4-week-olds have been outside since they were 3w6d

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So for just 1 day so far?

We have Had the chicks out in the coop for 2 weeks now. They are 6.5 weeks now.
(They stopped using the heat plate around 3 weeks.)
We had to leave for two nights so they have enough food/water and left them locked in the coop.
We left the 2 windows open a bit (4ft above the ground where they currently are sleeping. The breeze will not be direct.
Of course since we left a cold snap came through. It’s getting down to 5 Celsius tonight and I’m looking for comfort that they will be ok. The coop is insulated but with the windows open I’m sure it will keep the air crisp.
There is 16 of them and they all have their feathers. The always huddle together at night and clearly have had no supplemental heat for 3+ weeks.
Any words of comfort?

irlybird said:

We have Had the chicks out in the coop for 2 weeks now. They are 6.5 weeks now.
(They stopped using the heat plate around 3 weeks.)
We had to leave for two nights so they have enough food/water and left them locked in the coop.
We left the 2 windows open a bit (4ft above the ground where they currently are sleeping. The breeze will not be direct.
Of course since we left a cold snap came through. It’s getting down to 5 Celsius tonight and I’m looking for comfort that they will be ok. The coop is insulated but with the windows open I’m sure it will keep the air crisp.
There is 16 of them and they all have their feathers. The always huddle together at night and clearly have had no supplemental heat for 3+ weeks.
Any words of comfort?

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They'll be fine...as long as they are dry and out of any direct winds.

I put 4 week olds out on 40 degree evenings with a rentacoop hot plate. They all decided to sleep ONTOP of the hot plate.. so i removed it and they did just fine. It’s in the 80s now and next week is going to be highs in the 50’s and rain.. they’ll be 6 weeks and 9 weeks and they will be JUST FINE. Not moving heat back into the coop = they dont need heat. They have little down coats on.