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RE: Baby it's cold outside - the house is full of animals
Adorable silkie babies. How old are they? It's cold here too, -11C/ 12F but my chickens are still out in their coop :) I give them extra scratch and extra bedding to snuggle up in if they want but they usually still sleep on the roosts. Chickens are surprisingly hardy!
Ditto for chickens being hardy...this is my first winter owning them and I asked my sister (who lives in a state much colder than ours) how she heated the coop. She said she didn’t because then the chickens acclimated to the cold and would still want to get outside every day; her neighbor has a heated coop and his chickens won’t budge. She has hilarious video of her chickens and ducks plowing through deep snow! We’ve had temps dipping toward single digits lately and mine are still trying to bust out the coop door, haha.
With all that said, the silkies look a bit more delicate to me, especially since they’re young.
Yes :)
These babies are younger and have been more sensitive to the cold, I have lost 6 from
This group of babies due to the cold. :(.
I have lots of older Silkies out in their coop. They do great in all weather conditions.
These babies are 3 months old.
Oh no, sorry about your losses! Good thing you are able to bring these ones inside :) I have some 4 month olds and the cockerel has yet to try out his voice.
Are they hatched from your own older silkies? I would love to homegrow our own chicks, but won’t get a rooster so it’s not happening here ;-)