A trick to use in snow

[Mrs. K]

Yesterday, I did not get down to my chickens until about 10:00. We had received snow in the night of a couple of inches. Not a single track in the snow. Chickens hate change.

I walked into the run, and found my mini haystack that I had pitched up before the storm. I flipped the hay out on top of the snow and immediately my birds came out. Then the silly things ignored that they were standing in snow as they tromped around to see what was to eat.

Just a trick to make them more comfortable in the winter, not with the cold, but with the strangeness of new snow.

Mrs K

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Same here. Mine generally won't walk on snow. I put down hay too. A few brave young ones will venture out in the snow, but I believe they are still in denial about the whole snow situation. They keep trying to do what they did all summer and fall, but there's no grass now, only white everywhere.

My bantam hardly ever come outside even with hay down. Good thing their coop is a good size.