Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[Alex1010]

You'll do fine

. There are accounts of a chicken surviving for years after having his head chopped off so don't fret.

Lol thanks!

 

[jophus]

Everyone must be hunkered down and dug in for the winter. Hope ya'lls birds are faring well in the colder weather. I've got some large fowl with minor frostbite, a busted pipe on one of my automatic waterers, but so far so good. Ready for spring, and ready to get hatching.

 

[RJSorensen]

LOL! The sun just went down and it is getting cold again, I suppose hunkered down is true. We have been down to minus teens… but it can get much worse. I put a heat lamp in my banty coop to help out the Modern Game birds I have, they looked like they were in need of some help. Large fowl are doing good so far, but I have heard of a few folks in the valley who have lost birds, big and small.

Like you, looking forward to spring,

RJ

 

[Alex1010]

Everyone must be hunkered down and dug in for the winter. Hope ya'lls birds are faring well in the colder weather. I've got some large fowl with minor frostbite, a busted pipe on one of my automatic waterers, but so far so good. Ready for spring, and ready to get hatching.

I am so with you in the spring and hatching, only a couple months to go

 

[Alex1010]

LOL! The sun just went down and it is getting cold again, I suppose hunkered down is true. We have been down to minus teens… but it can get much worse. I put a heat lamp in my banty coop to help out the Modern Game birds I have, they looked like they were in need of some help. Large fowl are doing good so far, but I have heard of a few folks in the valley who have lost birds, big and small.

Like you, looking forward to spring,

RJ

I've never lost a bird to the cold

 

[RJSorensen]

• Alex1010… I suppose you have never seen diesel fuel gel in a fuel tank either? I've never been to Mars.

 

[Alex1010]

• Alex1010… I suppose you have never seen diesel fuel gel in a fuel tank either? I've never been to Mars.

Lol I literally In all my years of chicken keeping never lost one to the cold

 

[jophus]

LOL! The sun just went down and it is getting cold again, I suppose hunkered down is true. We have been down to minus teens… but it can get much worse. I put a heat lamp in my banty coop to help out the Modern Game birds I have, they looked like they were in need of some help. Large fowl are doing good so far, but I have heard of a few folks in the valley who have lost birds, big and small.

Like you, looking forward to spring,

RJ

I don't envy you guys where it's cold. Our winters are mild here compared to what y'all see. I've not lost a bird, but our coldest nights are minus single digits.

How cold does it get where you are?

On a side note, what kind of Modern Game do you keep, lol?

 

[RJSorensen]

At the place, minus forty is the worst I have seen, A couple of minus thirty times, usually we will hit minus twenty every year at least once. These events set in for a week or longer, sometimes two weeks. We keep kerosene on hand for when the fuel sets/gels up in the tractor fuel tanks. It sucks the life out of most everything… About forty miles east of me is a place we call Peter Sinks. This place is one of those freak places where it is often in the top five to ten coldest places in the lower US. The other day it was minus fifty up there, a couple of weather nuts go up to get the readings, I just have to ask why? This cold drifts down off the mountain and we get that.



The temp on the right is minus fifty, but that is as low as this temp probe can or will go… how cold is it really? Dam cold. I don't think it is so much how far north one is, as much as how high up you are. The two valleys to the north and east of me are ten, then twenty degrees each colder than us. They don't keep many chickens up there. I live in Cache Valley, north and a little east of me is Bear Lake Valley, then Star Valley, Jackson Hole and then Yellowstone. About 3.5 hours away. I am in US zone six, I think, the others are in zone seven. Seven is very cold to say the least. Perhaps you have to see the plug removed from a fuel can, then tipped over… with nothing coming out of it to understand that kind of cold. Often we just let the motors run, idling other than risking not being able to start them again. Battery cold crank power is not much of a match to brutal cold.

Stay in, stay warm.

RJ

 

[jophus]

At the place, minus forty is the worst I have seen, A couple of minus thirty times, usually we will hit minus twenty every year at least once. These events set in for a week or longer, sometimes two weeks. We keep kerosene on hand for when the fuel sets/gels up in the tractor fuel tanks. It sucks the life out of most everything… About forty miles east of me is a place we call Peter Sinks. This place is one of those freak places where it is often in the top five to ten coldest places in the lower US. The other day it was minus fifty up there, a couple of weather nuts go up to get the readings, I just have to ask why? This cold drifts down off the mountain and we get that. The temp on the right is minus fifty, but that is as low as this temp probe can or will go… how cold is it really? Dam cold. I don't think it is so much how far north one is, as much as how high up you are. The two valleys to the north and east of me are ten, then twenty degrees each colder than us. They don't keep many chickens up there. I live in Cache Valley, north and a little east of me is Bear Lake Valley, then Star Valley, Jackson Hole and then Yellowstone. About 3.5 hours away. I am in US zone six, I think, the others are in zone seven. Seven is very cold to say the least. Perhaps you have to see the plug removed from a fuel can, then tipped over… with nothing coming out of it to understand that kind of cold. Often we just let the motors run, idling other than risking not being able to start them again. Battery cold crank power is not much of a match to brutal cold. Stay in, stay warm. RJ

Thanks for that. I'd be interested in hearing how you guys help your birds deal with that kind of cold. Would also be interested in hearing about your modern game. I know this is a OEGB thread, but what do you have?