How many chickens have you lost due to the winter so far?

[RockyToggRanch]

Well, so far I haven't lost any. I just moved the 7 week olds out there in a brooder with an extra light. There's still several feet of snow on the ground and it's 8 degrees this morning. My front wall is still a blue tarp. It's inside the barn, but the barn is always open. Some of them got a touch of frostbite on their combs during the -20 week, but other than that all is good!

 

[ams3651]

This was my first winter with chickens and it was one of the longest coldest we have had in a LONG time. I had a heat lamp under their roost I turned on when it got in the low teens and a heated water bowl. I havent lost any and my roo is only frostbit on the very tips. I put up plastic across a drafty wall and closed them up tight when it snowed or got windy. At one point they spent several weeks inside. My chickens hate snow

 

[chicken_angler]

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It was the coldest winter because every 11 years, we go into a solar minimum. This means that there is a low level of high energy radiation coming from the sun! Tha last solar minimum awas in 1997 so 2008 was predicted to be very cold! Burrrr!!!

Cody!!

 

[chickenbuddy]

I lost around 9 birds. I lost two on Christmas, and so on and so fourth afterwards. Four of them I don't know when I lost. Those 4 were free ranged so it's sometimes hard to keep track of them. My loses were due to a predator. We think it was a big raccoon we saw ealier last year. It doesn't get very cold where I live.

 

[abluechipstock]

i lost my 2 mottled cochin hens to a darn hawk this winter

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

Luckily, Ive lost none.

 

[Chickenmaven]

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Mine, too. But I blaimed my teen son and his massive quantity of electronics.

 

[Southernbelle]

None of my laying flock, but I did lose a few chicks recently. Mine are hatched and raised by broodies and I had one that must've lost track of mama and got chilled and died. Recently a few of my free-range roos have disappeared, but they were headed for freezer camp anyway.

 

[Feathers Acres]

Numero zero

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

none.