Silkie and Weather

Due to ther looks the silkies often get missunderstood as "delicate". Only to be used and some sort of ornaments. In fact they are more hardy than they look like.

Many think the silkie will crumble at just the sign of cold. In fact that they can handle as much cold as any other chicken breed.

The Silkie do not have big as combs as other breeds makes them less susceptible to frostbite.

Due to their fur like feathers the only thing they are more sensetive against is the wind.

A wet silkie, in windy weathercould actully make your bird really sick.

In fact that its shown that silkies handle cold better than they handle the heat. Meaning they are more sensetive for heatstrokes.

My experience: My chickens where outside in -20 celsius one winter with no issues. Then I had the heatlamp on in the coop. 
I have never seen mine silkies shown signs that they are cold (they have shown that they LIKE the heat from the heatlamp) but they where misarble during our hottest part of the summer. Panting and lifting their wings.
I do only turn on my heatlamp when it drops below -10 celsius. This is cause any chicken can get really sick if they are not that used to the real cold.