whats the hardiest winter breed of standard chicken?????????????

[punky rooster]

buckeyes and chanteclers can't go wrong

 

[phasianidae]

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dont worry about mud in cold weather...it freezesso do eggs here, so nest boxes arent needed in the winter.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Wyandottes!

 

[phasianidae]

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i just read the article about them on here and maybe they would do well, at least the rose combed ones.

 

[lcw1995]

thanks everyone for the suggestions.
i got some thinking to do.

 

[Chris09]

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I agree with Bob,
My Rose comb Rhode Island Reds don't care about the temperature one bit.
I had seen them out and about when it was -5 and about a foot or so of so of snow on the ground.

I will say American game are some tough little birds also.

Chris

 

[PeakyBeaky]

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Ditto!

 

[michickenwrangler]

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i just read the article about them on here and maybe they would do well, at least the rose combed ones.

Despite the "Ice" in Iceland, the north-central US and Canada are FAR colder than Iceland, surrounded by ocean warmed by the North Atlantic current. While cold there, they don't get the bitter continental cold of -30 like U.P. of Michigan, Maine, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Even southern Alaska is warmer than those areas.

Just looked it up

Avg. high in Iceland in January is 30 degrees F
Avg. high in Michigan/Sault Ste. Marie in January is 22 degrees F
Avg. high in Duluth, MN in January 15 degrees

Water makes a big difference

 

[stoneunhenged]

I believe hedemora are by a stretch the most cold hardy chicken in the world.

 

[lcw1995]

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wat do them look like. never herd of one.