Can Chickens survive the Texas cold?

[Shiningfeather]

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Don't forget we're talking about Texas here ... bigger, harder, Hotter, colder, wetter, drier, windier.... You know texas..... (yes t not T) I've known too many TexASSians

prejudice much?

I think jealous is more like it

 

[texasbartrambaby]

Up in the Panhandle, its does actually get below zero quite a bit. Not a ton of snow, but just the lovely lean forward into the wind to walk kind of stuff.

They are saying its an el nino year so we might see lots of the white stuff!!!

Just make sure that they are protected from the blowing wind. I know during the winter I am constantly breaking ice from the waterers and what not.

 

[Sharylva]

I live in the Central Texas Hill Country and we don't normally have cold weather but recently we stayed below freezing for several days. My chickens are only 16 weeks old and have not been exposed to the cold weather, we were 80 degrees the day before the front hit. Do you all think they would still be OK outside with freezing weather being that they are as young as they are and not use to the cold? I wimped out and put them in my hallway and in a large dog kennel that I had on hand. Am I going overboard? I don't want to kill them.

 

[Fred's Hens]

My! You resurrected an old thread.

First, at 16weeks, your birds are late teenagers, if you will, not fragile chicks at all. Like the crows and sparrows of the field, chickens are birds and adjust to temperature changes. Folks raise chickens in Northern Michigan, like me, and Alaska!!! We have temps to 30 below zero. 30 above would feel like a heat wave.

The quick swings are tough, but your chickens do not need a constant 75 degrees. They can and will adjust to temps, if you let them.
The worst of the cold is passing now. Next winter? Just allow them to be chickens, highly adaptable creatures they are. Best wishes on your flock.

 

[tornado8070]

I think you should be ok. I also live in MI and this mourning it was -5 outside with a nasty wind! The girls certainly didnt look happy (neither was I) but they do ok as long as they are not exposed to a draft and kept dry. Good luck with your chickens and lets all pray for WARMER weather.

 

[ScotianChick]

Texas gets cold? I have 6 chickens in Nova Scotia, Canada. In American terms, the other day it got to -13F. My pipes froze but my chickens didn't. Yours will be just fine living that close to the equator

 

[jarcoo0153]

I have close to 50 chickens, 3 guineas, and 4 ducks that live outside in a cotton trailer chicken coop with a little leanto to block the wind, and they are doing fine, except for frozen eggs and most of the roosters have frostbite on their combs,

I am about 30 miles from lubbock, and it has been close to zero several days last week! I haven't lost one yet , Knock on wood!

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

My birds are doing fine so far . It has been below 20F a few times now.