Extreme weather in RGV 🥶🤔

[Eldon956]

Due to extreme weather and power outages here in deep south texas and possible snow, I moved my small flock of 8 chickens, 8 quails,9 juvenile chicks, 6 chicks less than 1 month old, and 2 baby quails indoors and turned a vacant room to their temporary chicken coop/quail breeder/chicks brooder temporarily. Oh, and moved all the incubating eggs i had outside in the garage from my diy fridge incubator to a fixer upper styrofoam incubator to the kitchen countertop. Temp is down to 31 this morning and supposed to be in lower 20’s tonight, we just had 1st power outage this morning that lasted 2 hrs and I have my 12 home quail eggs in day 1 of lockdown. Damn roosters started crowing inside the house real early .

 

[chickachicka12345]

sounds bad.

 

[Island Coppers]

26°F here, this chilly morning. The power was out last night so the newly installed chicken door didn't close on it's own. I wish this was unusual here but you're not alone having to deal with extreme weather and power outages
What a kind heart you have, to invite all the critters inside.
It's also practical, all the effort and expense to get the flock going well could be lost overnight.. so whatever it takes! Best luck.

 

[Penpal]

Temps dropped here, too.

Glad you had the foresight to put them on lockdown.

 

[chickachicka12345]

yeah. here in Texas we have 19F temps.

 

[CBaron]

I'm in Central TX and a relatively new chicken owner (my first winter). But most of my researched, based on those that have chickens way up North US, state that 'generally' the chickens can be fairly hardy in the winter. Just keep the drafts out of the coop, keep humidity down, and make sure they are fed & watered. I'm going to let this be my plan unless we get down to maybe single digits.

To be honest, I'm much more concerned about helping them get through the triple digit summers.

If anyone finds holes in my logic, please feel free to chime in. I'm still learning.

Cheers,
CJB

 

[OYhobbyfarm]

I'm in Central TX and a relatively new chicken owner (my first winter). But most of my researched, based on those that have chickens way up North US, state that 'generally' the chickens can be fairly hardy in the winter. Just keep the drafts out of the coop, keep humidity down, and make sure they are fed & watered. I'm going to let this be my plan unless we get down to maybe single digits.

To be honest, I'm much more concerned about helping them get through the triple digit summers.

If anyone finds holes in my logic, please feel free to chime in. I'm still learning.

Cheers,
I am from WI and have a hobby farm in northern MN. I guess I like winter. If the birds are past the heating lamp stage they are fine in the coop outside. Just follow what you wrote here this past winter we hit -36. Chickens were fine. If they are not past heating lamp stage I would install solar panels to insure that you have electricity for those outages.

 

[Dominique King]

I'm in Central TX and a relatively new chicken owner (my first winter). But most of my researched, based on those that have chickens way up North US, state that 'generally' the chickens can be fairly hardy in the winter. Just keep the drafts out of the coop, keep humidity down, and make sure they are fed & watered. I'm going to let this be my plan unless we get down to maybe single digits.

To be honest, I'm much more concerned about helping them get through the triple digit summers.

If anyone finds holes in my logic, please feel free to chime in. I'm still learning.

Cheers,
CJB

I live in NH which is a New England state and I have had sub zero temps with strong wind and none of my flock has died, so yes our flocks can be very hardy