Hey Northerners: What is the absolute coldest air temps your chickens have experienced happily!

[YourEggs]

I live on the North Dakota Minnesota border and my coop thermometer says 0 Fahrenheit but my roosters combs are frostbitten. What can I do about it? 

You can put Vaseline on his combs and wattles to help prevent frostbite, if he will let you.

 

[Pancholoco]

You live in Sinaloa Mexico? I thought the San Joaquin Valley was in California??

Right now I'm in Kalifornia

 

[Pancholoco]

Thank you!!

Here is this amazing page.

http://www.pic4ever.com

 

[Pancholoco]

I'm in Alaska and we've hit -27, birds were fine, water got a little thick though, not quite frozen but getting there.

I have a friend there (Anchorage to be exact

) talked with him a few days ago and temperature was -20˚F

 

[OneCountryChick]

Well, this morning when I went out to feed it was -25.  The girls were up and moving around in the coop,  I doubt they will go out in the run though.  I don't have a heat lamp on them.   I am just having a hard time keeping the water from freezing up.   And I am not a northerner,  I'm in Southern Utah! 

I went to the feed store to buy a heated waterer but it was too expensive for just six birds, so we made one using a cookie tin. Drill a hole on the side to put the cord and metal piece of your light socket thru. Use a 40 watt bulb. Place the cookie tin on a cinder block. It gets warm enough to keep the water from freezing and no fire danger since its all enclosed. It was a do-it-yourself project on the ChickenChick website. It takes all of 15minutes to build. I

 

[ozexpat]

My girls will feel the chill tonight - it will be 77

But I guess its all relative

 

[BrickWall Honey]

When I was still in Maine we had two consecutive nights with -36 & -37. Everything was cold, inside and out. Lost a lot of livestock.

 

[LoveChickens123]

sorry wrong thread

 

[Scrambles55]

I do believe I am jealous right now....

My girls will feel the chill tonight - it will be 77 But I guess its all relative

 

[Kernel Cluck]

Just got the wood stove stoked and waiting for it to get get nice and hot because it is a balmy 1 F this morning. I resisted the urge to put the heat lamp in the coop. The girls appear to be OK.