Cream Legbars

[OKVet]

Mine seem to be thriving in the cold. It was below zero the other night and obe of my pullets slept outside amd did just fine. The next morning she was just fine and stil! up in the tree.

Roosting in a tree during a Minnesota winter. That is a hardcore chicken.

 

[WVduckchick]

Roosting in a tree during a Minnesota winter.  That is a hardcore chicken.

Agreed. I thought I had hardcore chickens!

I have Seramas that refuse to go inside, so I let them sleep on a branch in the open-air run. Last night it got down to 10F and this morning they were running around, happy as little larks.

And...they are laying the best of any of my breeds! Go figure.

 

[holm25]

Roosting in a tree during a Minnesota winter. That is a hardcore chicken.

Lol yes it is. But not as hardcore s my Guineas who slept out when it hit -30 below zero!

 

[duluthralphie]

I can beat the hard core rooster story!!


I had a legbar rooster. KEY WORD HAD>

One of our nasty blizzards we have in Dec, it was 30 below and the wind was blowing from the NW. Not a night for anything to be outside. The next morning, being a responsible chicken Rancher, I went to feed water and collect my frozen eggs.

I got to the rooster pen and there was a rooster sitting on the roost about 3 feet in the air. just sitting and not moving. I thought I would throw the idiot into the coop. (Each pen has a coop). I went to grab him and he did not move. He was dead frozen to the 2x4 roost. I had to yank him off to get him into the incinerator. Every other rooster made it inside but this rocket scientist of the chicken world.

 

[windyridgefarm]

I can beat the hard core rooster story!!


I had a legbar rooster. KEY WORD HAD>

One of our nasty blizzards we have in Dec, it was 30 below and the wind was blowing from the NW. Not a night for anything to be outside. The next morning, being a responsible chicken Rancher, I went to feed water and collect my frozen eggs.

I got to the rooster pen and there was a rooster sitting on the roost about 3 feet in the air. just sitting and not moving. I thought I would throw the idiot into the coop. (Each pen has a coop). I went to grab him and he did not move. He was dead frozen to the 2x4 roost. I had to yank him off to get him into the incinerator. Every other rooster made it inside but this rocket scientist of the chicken world.

What breeds were the other roosters? Seems to me like he was probably one of the low/lowest ranking roosters, as suck he was reluctant to go into the coop with the other roosters for fear of getting beaten up. He decided to take his chances with the weather instead but lost. If so they were probably keeping him from eating as well so he burned through his reserves. I try to avoid this by having food available in several locations within each pen

 

[duluthralphie]

What breeds were the other roosters? Seems to me like he was probably one of the low/lowest ranking roosters, as suck he was reluctant to go into the coop with the other roosters for fear of getting beaten up. He decided to take his chances with the weather instead but lost. If so they were probably keeping him from eating as well so he burned through his reserves. I try to avoid this by having food available in several locations within each pen

I do have food in two places, four feeders this was actually a double pen, it had two coops in it even.

I think I had legbar. Maran, mixed breed birds and that is about it.

 

[windyridgefarm]

I do have food in two places, four feeders this was actually a double pen, it had two coops in it even.

I think I had legbar. Maran, mixed breed birds and that is about it.

With the cold you described food consumption may not have mattered. You would think he would have been able to make it into one of the two
coops but that is chicken logic for you. Perhaps it got dark before he could make his way in so he hunkered down. In any case sorry you lost him. It is never easy.

 

[ChicKat]

Yesterday in a pen of 5 legbar hens, I got 5 eggs. I'm quite proud of these hens, although they were total slackers through the winter. They are laying even better than my Isabel Leghorns.

One of the hens in that pen is just over 5-years old! She has been a fantastic layer ever since she started.

Sometimes, I think that they try to out do each other, so productive hens stimulate their room mates to be more productive.

 

[Bantambird]

I wish my slackers would get the memo!

 

[duluthralphie]

I wish my slackers would get the memo!

Maybe you could CC my slackers too....Please.