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Huddle box 2' x 2'. My guys may be fighting temps less than -10 F with a plus wind in coming weeks.

@Armando I 3454 I am combating cold with younger birds than you and employing something you might try until your rooster gets back into good health. I am using a huddle box. Been using them a summer a lot with really young birds to help get them to roost where I want. This is different as...

Is he staying awake more?

Either major improvement or cockerel has passed on?

Simply warming up will promote improvement but cause of this will make so recovery not complete. Keep food and water going into bird. If cocci and just about anything, then the bout of hypothermia this bird suffered will set stage for secondary infection and loss from that. Even if you get...

Any changes?

I would gamble it is cocci. Get it into his water at proper dossage. Contact you uncle about how the medication he sent works. If you have gatorade, then water bird with that. You will learn and be able to head this stuff off next time. Start handling birds more as helps detect these...

Too fast to be worms, if intestinal, then likely cocci. Tight confinement aggravates if cleaning not rigorous. Know any neighbors raising chicks? I have a small back of exactly what need but a few hundred miles away. Boil an egg, chop it up. Do have a can of sardines or canned salmon in the...

I assume you may need to make run to feed store to get medicated feed. If bird has an aggressive cocci infection then be prepared to purchase corid. Medicated feed helps control infection but the Corid laced water needed to knock down an aggressive infection. Dewormer like Ivermectin. Feces...

First we do not know what is actually cause of this so you want make so stress from environment and nutrition is minimal Make so ambient temperature is about 70 F. Make so water is very clean and get some electrolytes into it. Feed bird with fresh bag of medicated chick feed. You may need to...

Do you want to try and save her? Frost is not her problem.

Classic situation where frost bite is secondary. That bird is sick. Frost bite, if present occurred because bird had to struggle just keeping core warm.

I suggest you start working on getting him into a least a 4' x 4' x 4' pen so he can move about, stretch wings and roost up. Roosting on on a wood pole makes so he can cover toes completely by cover while sleeping. Should also see a marked improvement in the appearance of the tail.

He looks a little under weight. Looks it. Face color good. You have two birds in there, too tight. Split them up.

Get heat source back away from pen. Something else wrong and cold is only a secondary issue! Handle sick bird and photograph. Make so bird stands on paper or some clean surface so you can see feces. Are they drinking?

I position wind breaks so the block wind only from one direction. Usually just plywood used. Covers taken off for heavy snow events. How do your remaining games look?

She did not die directly from cold. Feel remaining birds for weight / condition. Check feces for worms.

Something else is compromising health. Use of Guinea Pig cage does not inspire confidence.

Here is how my birds are kept under much colder conditions than your birds experience. Mine so kept are adult American Games in good feather and weight. Currently ground is covered in snow.

Looks mild if frost bit at all. How is she walking? Keep that heat lamp well away from the straw. Show a picture where she actually confined to see if there are ways to make so low temperatures not so problematic. Show picture of dead hen.