I think I have a problem. Silkies. Someone needs to take charge of my money. Chick pics.

ronkonkoma · Apr 17, 2021

RooStar Chicken Gang said:
Cool silkies. Are silkies cold hardy, the silkies with full fluff? Have read that they are cold hardy but then also they aren't, seeing as they are fluff not feathers Yad think if they got wet wouldn't get dry as easy ect..

That’s a great question. I’ve had Silkies since 2014, but really got into it in 2018. Im in NY, growing zone 7, and we sometimes get below zero. I’ve never lost a bird to cold and because their combs are close to their head they’ve never had frostbite either. When it’s snowing most of my birds don’t come out until it’s over. The only issue that sometimes worries me is those odd days just above freezing when it rains freezing rain. They stand in it and end up looking like wet cats, and then it’s going to dip well below freezing at night. It rarely happens but when it does I either don’t let them out of the coop during the rain, or add like a stand up heat plate to their coop which honestly doesn’t do much. Just cold does not concern me.