CHICKENS in WINTER | How Cold is Too Cold for Chickens
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- A complete care guide to raising backyard chickens in the winter. There are 8 key point you must know on how to properly care for your chickens in cold weather. How cold is too cold for chickens?
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0:00 Introduction
2:00 Chicken Breeds
2:39 Water
4:04 Drafts & Ventilation
5:16 Feed
6:40 Bedding
8:04 Slowed Egg Production
9:32 Boredom Busters
10:53 Predators
im in northern Maine. ive had leghorns here for years and they survived -40 3x's last winter with no heat or insulation in the coop with no harm. i supplement with manna pro and cracked corn during the winter. as long as they are dry and protected from wind they will be fine.
Thanks for sharing your experiences 😊😊
We have -40 right now and our poor girls are having frost bite on their combs. So sad.
Thank you for including entertainment for the chickens. So many folks don't realize how smart chickens are. They really do enjoy toys and all the perches that you showed.
Add natural cider vinegar to their water..the acidity first counteracts hard water, and then it keeps their digestive system in good pH for good probiotic health in their gut and may prevent a good environment for worms. 1-2 tablespoons per gallon, bit more for very hard water.
We try to do this every Sunday, keeps the waters clean & great preventative idea! Sometimes we'll add garlic to the water as well.
not always
Will Apple cider vinegar help as well?
if I have a PVC pipe with drinking nipples, would this clog the system?
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Raised them as you know in Nokesville VA and had over twenty five of them as a kid. They lived in a man made coop, that was 8 x 8 foot that I made when I was 13 years old, they loved it and did well in the cold weather.
Would have loved to see them!
Thank you for all the winter info. First time chicken owner here in NJ and was stressing because it’s getting colder. Your video helped. I agree with you about giving them a egg laying break in the winter. They definitely deserve it. Thanks again for the great info.
Our pleasure!
NJ here too… We’ve had chickens here for 20 yrs… and they thrive..
NJ here, I've had my chickens for a couple of years. I just put in their run, leaves to create a 2-4 in bedding. In their coop I lay down fresh bedding building it up so that there is a layer of insulation as it gets colder. They never have a huge build up if poop, because I just put another layer of bedding. Has worked well.
A regular hen only has about 500 permanent eggs in their ovaries just like human females.
I have watched a few videos on winterizing for chickens... and this is the best one yet. Thank you.
That video contains wonderful tips! I’ve only got 6 mos experience with my chickens. They’ve been doing a great job at training me….the girls walk up into my deck in the late afternoon and knock on my door. Mealworm time! 🐓🐓🐓 I’ve got heavy tree and shrub plantings for hiding spots. Always happy to hear the crows around me although we have some hawk pressure too. I’ve got sandy soil, so the girls love to dig out lil sand bath areas and usually pile in there 2-4 birds at a time. Chickens are amusing - I was NOT prepared for that aspect 😜
I’ve had crows come to my house to tell me a predator was stocking my coop! I can not let them roam due to bobcats and hawks that hunt during the day:(
They are so silly and fun aren’t they! They always put big smiles on our faces. Thanks for sharing
@@toneenorman2135 that’s impressive - tuning in to the crows! They are not always around my home, tho I am grateful to hear that “caw” rather frequently. No bobcats here. Just wandering housecsts….ugh.
@@joannc147 LOL! Thanks..I’m bewildered by the change in numbers last 3-4 years.. We used to have huge “ Murders “ of crows. Dozens and dozens. That’s what a bunch of crows is called..Anyway, 2 or 4 birds,maybe less, this year…where’d they go?🤷♀️
So glad I found your channel. Looking forward to digging into it! This video addresses my two concerns this time of year, them being cold and possible fire. Thank you!
Welcome to our channel & thanks for tuning in! ❤️ So glad this information could be of help to you it’s one of our top asked questions
I love that your chickens are calm with you touching/petting them. ❤️
We try to hand tamed them when we raise the from baby chicks. Lots of love for our babies.
Thanks Kelly for the information!
thank you so much, I've been feeling so horrible about the chickens in the cold.. your advice is deeply appreciated 🥶
Great video, very informative! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for sharing all of this great info! I’m a first time chicken owner, have 3 ISA Browns and love them to pieces! I live in Georgia, was in the 30’s last week and I was stressing lol.. my girls are in a small coop temporarily until we can build a bigger one. Your video put my mind at ease, I was so worried they’d be too cold. Looking forward to checking out more vids! Thanks again!!
This is such great information! There are so many opinions about what’s best for them during the winter months it can be very confusing. But I love your taking it back to the old days approach and I agree 100% Especially in regards to letting them enjoy their own winter solstice! 🛌❄️⛄️🙏🏼
Thank you! I always like to lean towards the natural side of things =] I know we all love to spoil our babies, but its easy for people to lose focus and sacrifice their safety with heat lamps. So glad you enjoyed the video!
The tips where so good. Especially the winter tips.
Thanks for this. Reassured me a little. I’m in Arkansas now (was in central California until last year) and we got three snows! Then we got chickens 😂❤ we will see what this first winter brings.
Great advice! My first year with chickens. I love them and learning so much.
Very cool! They are so fun
I've watched a lot of chicken videos ,this was one of the best. Well designed coop. Cant wait to watch more ty.
Awesome! Thanks so much for your kind words and tuning in!
Love your videos and love you coop / run area. … thanks for sharing all your great ideas 🙏 😊
Aw thanks so much!! Welcome to our channel ❤️
Thank you for all the education. I started late in life with chickens and gardening. Love my girls and boys, so entertaining. Hugs from Bama. ❤❤❤
This was so helpful and informative! Thank you - I learned so much and will continue to follow your channel for more!
This is honestly one of the best vides that I have found that explains what steps to take for the winter. Thank you so much for the information!!
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It also depends on the breed. Silkies cannot tolerate cold like regular chickens. After two winters of losing silkies to cold or pneumonia without heat, I started putting a heat lamp in and didn’t lose anymore. Never had sick chickens because of using heat. It just takes the chill out. Since my silkie and non-silkie birds are together I put a heat lamp in my coop during winter. I’ve had chickens for 20 years. If you’re careful about how to hang your lamp, you won’t have a fire danger.
I put heat lamps in mine when it got down to 19 degrees. They heat lamps kept it about 40 in the coop. They did fine. They do get cold because they go get in my green house on cold days.
They sell one that shuts off if it gets bumped. It has halogen bulb. Keep the lamp free from dust. And hang with something safe so it can't fall or ignite anything.
It matters not that you had chickens for 20 years. I don't know how long you have used a heat lamp, but you are just tickling the dragon's tail. If you must use heat, use infrared screen or one of those pads (like the rubber ones used to warm the feet) or mount a chicken heat panel on a wall of the coop and use a cube with it, - set to go on when the temp goes below 35. There have been untold fires from using a heat lamp. Don't do it!
@@debbino4249 I’ve been using heat lamps for 20 years. Never had a problem. I will continue to use them. You do you ok?
@@joycenesselhauf1220 willful ignorance is bliss right?
what a wealth of information all in one vid. Also I liked the slanted shelf to keep the chickens from pooping on top of the nest box, oh and the curtains were cute privacy curtains!😀
New subscriber here! Great video! I just learned more in your video about how to take care of chickens than all others combined I have watched.Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
Wow you have no idea how much you’ve put my mind at rest. You’re analogy of back in the day actually opened my eyes once & for all. We do get extremely cold weather during winter here in New England as cold as 4-10 below and that is when I’ve put a chicken heating device on in the coupe. I supplement in the winter with crickets & sardines, oatmeal & additional chicken or other forms of meat. I’ve found using a deep litter method has worked best for my coupe especially in the winter to insulate the floor. Thank you for the great advice
I was questioning how to keep chickens in London and you just answered that. Chickens have been livimg outdoors for centuries. Great vid saw you on the fb.
Glad we could help! Greetings all the way from California! thanks for watching =]
This was very helpful! Thanks for sharing 💜
Thank you . I am new here I owning chicken in the winter area . This helps a lot
My dad and his parents didn't have electricity and back then had a dairy farm. They also had chickens. They wood put peppers in their water and it would keep them warm in the cold wintery months here in Missouri. I liked your video and I am subscribed now. Thank you. Take care everyone. 😊🐓🐣🐥🐔🐾
Thank you so much! My dad grew up on a farm in Missouri as well
Thank you! Excellent tips!
Great info. Thanks!
Great info, thank you!!
Mostly agree - especially about being careful regarding heat lamps and fire in the coop. However, we literally went from summer to winter in a week's time this year from 72 degrees F to freezing. The massive change in such a short period triggered a crazy molt in most of my birds. It is FREEZING at night and they are mostly without their feathers! We try to bolster them with sunflower seed snacks at night for the fats (energy) and protein (feather production.) The only ones still laying (two birds) have not yet molted. Yes, they get closer to each other and fluff up what little feathers are left. In the meantime we've carefully secured a heat lamp in the coop away from flammables and anything that could injure our birds and have it on during the night to take the edge off the cold. They are (thankfully) getting their feathers back. Poor things look like big 'ol pincushions with all those pinfeathers going on!
its weird how they do that! wtf its cold! I use a metal wall mounted space heater..
Great video. My egg lady is letting her hens rest this winter.
Your chickens look so happy and healthy. So do you! Happy holidays!
This is very informational thank you!
Great Information! Researching information for this is my first winter with my 17 chickens/guinea fowl flock! Thanks for the information!
Thanks & we love guineas! Our flocks are starting to get quite happy with the seasons change. They are much more playful and frisky in the mornings. They are glad summer is over
Well done. Mrs loves the chicken pinata idea.
You’ve provided a lot of great information here. Thanks so much! Our Leghorns are molting - a first for us. No eggs for weeks now, and bare chickens in very cold weather.
You’ve calmed me so much. Also re winter desperate predators. We’ve got them and yes it’s wintertime when they try especially hard. Poor things, too, but so far so good. We only have a few girls. No rooster yet. 5 in all, plenty for 2 humans. They’re very sweet and so sociable and come running when they see us, they don’t hurt each other, but I’m trying the piñata deal and other entertainments for them. Again,
Thank you! 👍😍🐓
Most informative and in-depth video on chickens I've ever seen! Going to retire in 2 years and have off grid house and animals; this information will definitely come in handy! I really like the way I saw the chickens, ducks, and horse all living together.
Glad it was helpful! Best of luck! 😊
The most informative post about chicken care!!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much! Glad it was of any help
Great video!
Thanks for the wonderful video !
Lots of great tips and extra tidbits of useful information I didn't know :)
Thanks for watching ❤️
I love your video, well explained. Love it.
Thank you this was perfect I’m also in California and you’ve eased my nerves on doing the best for my first pack of chickens 🙏💞
Useful video. Very much better words than anyone in the TH-cam’s. Ty
Great video. I was wondering about the supplemental heat and there was your video. Thankyou.
Excellent job. The flat perch, the combs (cold weather breeds), the feet are all things I had not heard before and I have been watching chicken videos for a few months now. Thank you and Thanks to your mom for nudging you to make this video. I am still going ahead with building an insulated coup in Maine but you confirmed my thought that I need to have good ventilation. I am going to increase the amount of ventilation I provide. A friend plans on putting a brooder lamp in her coup. I will make sure she sees this video.
Yes, chickens would rather roost on a fence or a branch in freezing weather than be "cooped up" in a tight coop with no air ventilation! That will make them sick!
Glad we could be of help! 😊😊
Appreciate chickens more now. Cool info. Looks like the are handled with love and care love seeing the kindness of people's hearts in the littlest of things. Great. Crazy didnt really expect a chicken topic to be thought provoking.
What great and informative information. I'm new to your channel, but I'm very happy I found it.
Great info we just started raising chickens last spring and I was lost on how to care for them in the winter we live in Eastern Kentucky so the winters are for the most part very mild but we can get some very cold snaps so now I’m ready thanks so much
Glad to help
Good content, love the way the video flowed, fast straight forward. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed!
Informative, great video. I only watched one other on this issue and the guy said they don't like winter winds sl plastic up as a windbreak and the light still gets through.
Thanks for watching! We hope these tips help 😊 that’s a good idea as they do not like drafts and winds but it’s still good idea to make sure there is enough ventilation for the moisture to escape. Just not where the winds and drafts can hit them so they are not exposed to that to bother them where they are roosting and sleeping at night
Excellent info! Well done.
Awesome video. Delivered good info with a flow (no umms ) making it easier to watch. It’s been 4 years since I’ve had chickens & thinking about getting a couple of hens. I miss the eggs & joy of having chickens. I call it “Feather Therapy”.
Great video. I'm in Northeaster Pa. Winters are pretty tough. My chickens have no problem. I never use supplemental heat. I even have the breeds you mentioned to avoid. No problems. Like you said acclimation is the key. Cracked corn in winter and a good sealed up coop for them to go in at night. I meet people who loose birds in winter. Then I see there coops....bunch of chicken wire and perches. No protection from the weather. That just won't work here. Must have a enclosed coop with a door that you shut at night. Fresh warm water in morning.
Thanks for sharing. I found this extremely informative.
Also, if anyone is thinking about using wood ash, just make sure it's never been wet with rain or anything. When it gets wet it makes it caustic and will burn their skin. This was very informative though. I learned a few things I didn't know. Thank you
This was a very good video. It answered all my questions. I live in West Virginia.
Great video. Thank you. I’ve been wanting to get chickens. This was a very helpful video. Keep up the great work. God Bless you and your family. 😊
Thanks so much! Having chickens as pets is the best, wish you luck!
Great video very informative
most excellent video, covered many important points. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This is the most helpful video I’ve found. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, very informative way more than the 1000 others I've seen. Thanks, sincerely Zack!!
Wow, thanks! Glad it was helpful
Thankyou for so much great information.
Great video! I have banties and live in Maine. Even at 40 below they do fine. I've known too many folks who've lost their flock because they had a heat lamp that caught fire.
Thanks for your comments about not having heat in the coop. I had been doing that when it got below 25 deg.. I will no longer do that.
It may seem cold to us but the chickens don’t mind that temperature 😊
Very helpful!
Thank you for clearing that up for me young lady. Regards.
Awesome, thank you so very much. That actually makes sense 🐓 great helpful information 🙏
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Lot of good points to recall
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Good morning, I just subscribed, thanks for posting this video.
Great video.
Your spot on young lady 👍
@62 it's great to see the younger generation with the correct knowledge
Something my mom used to do was put " bag balm" ( your local farm store or feed center should have it) on their feet, waddles and combs to help prevent frost bite. You can also feed table scraps as treats ... and contrary to popular belief...chickens are carnivores..in my area we have copperhead snakes and I've seen my ladies take them down as well as other small critters
Great tips thank you 😊
I cook for my chickens.. lol ..they love oatmeal, cornbread, and fruit.
Great! Thanks so much. very well done.🐔🐓🐓
Great advice, thanks it helped us a lot
love this video TY!
Good information. I had a leg horn that got very sick when we had cold temperatures here in Florida but the rest were fine.
Sometimes stress can lower their immune system. Good time to give them immune system building treats to eat, and supplement vitamins in water
we’re in Nebraska zone 5. We’ve had rhode island reds, Buff orpingtons, barred rocks, and currently have easter eggers, olive eggers, French black copper marans and welsummers. Haven’t had issues in 14 years except year # 1 when we DID use heat and our buff orpington rooster got frost bite on the tips of his comb. So haven’t used heat since
The heat could have added more moisture and condensation in the coop possible. Hard to know or say. Glad things are going well now!
@@everydaysurvival157 lots of people in Alaska have chickens with zero heat. Ventilation. is the absolute most important- ABOVE their heads so there are no drafts. Where in Nebraska are you? 😀 We’re in Bellevue.
Thanks. I'm a beginner with the chickens and I'm going into my first winter.
Glad to help, you’ll love raising chickens
Excellent Report - Very knowledgeable about chickens 🐓
Thank you!
Really good video and the nicest coup I've ever seen. Thankyou.
Thank you! We show our coop some more and talk about what we think chicken coop must haves are in this video here 😊
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Very informative. Thanks for the great tips. I just lost a chicken to a bobcat even though I had an electric fence. She had hopped the fence and became his next meal unfortunately. I've had my chickens for about a year now and I'm still learning a lot.
Aw so sorry for your loss! ❤️❤️
Thank you. I’m going to be getting a few chickens of my own very soon. Merry Christmas 🎄
That's great to hear! Happy holidays!
Aw Ty for this amazing video I really needed it cause it so cold we’re I live run
This is just about best video ever on chickens! I mean... sand? More like cat litter. Easy to scoop daily! Will be moving to Pennsylvania and have been wondering "what about the snowy winters!" Been building my beautiful chicken abode in my dreams for decades. This us going to be so useful - so many ideas... love your decor. And ways to keep them from danger and boredom. Swing - pinata- places to hide? Priceless. Thanks a bunch, Cutie. 🧡
Thanks so much & glad to help 😊
great tutorial..i did not know about the ravens...im upstate NY and feed my local wild birds...bluejays,,chickadees, ravens..etc...i live on a river which attracts wild canadian geese by the hundreds in my back yard...very informative video..good job
Best information on these topics, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video!! Many highly valuable tips shared! I agree on not adding heat or light to the coop. Keep it natural 👍
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed, leaning towards natural is always best =]
My chicken is going through a hard molt right now, (started losing feather 3 days ago) Shes a Rhode Island Red and has been through one winter already and did fine except very mild frostbite that I know how to treat now, she’s going bald already on her chest, back, under her wings and her tail and wing feathers. I live in Illinois so it’s pretty cold here, the other chickens I have are an Easter egger, blue laced red Wyandotte and midnight majesty maran. I was thinking about putting a light in the run considering she will go bald, should I bring her inside in a cage or? I just feel like it will be to cold for her without anything. I am also going to put up a tarp on both sides of the run to limit the wind, I don’t know really what to do considering I’m 12 me and my mom and dad didn’t consider she would go through a hard molt this late in winter. It would mean a lot if you could respond I need help!!
Heating a coop isn't always a no no. There's dozens of Utube videos on chicken coop winterizing. Always take into consideration the climate and location. If winter temperatures dip into single digits or below °0 like the Upper Peninsula of Michigan frost bite is a real problem even for hardy winter breeds of chickens. Proper ventilation and coop build is critical. As long as the heat is managed properly and air quality is a priority it works fine.
@@delaneysmrz5176 I hope your chickens made it through that winter!
Loved all your great advice! Beginners here in Florida! We have 6 young Jersey Giants!
That is awesome! Love jersey giants
Great video so I can prepare my chickens for the winters
Thank you!
Great insight. First winter with my flock. May also add cayenne pepper to keep them warm for laying.
Sounds great!
Another great, informative video, thanks!
So glad you found this helpful! :D
I live in Alberta where it can get -45c in the winter so I do supplement heat when extremely cold
Wow great video, we are going to be getting chickens in the near future & this question had been on my mind. New subscriber
Glad it was helpful!
Very good job young lady, best video I have seen on chicken care, thank you 💕
Aww thanks so much!
You’re such a huge help. We got some chicks today. There are lots of cats around the neighborhood. Any suggestions or videos?
You were great you helped me a lot
Very nice video and you did cover chickens not needing heat in the Winter
Thank you
Great info! Awesome channel!
Thanks so much! ❤️🐔😊