Chickens didn't come out of the rain?????

[cmom]

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Mine too.
I have a couple that will go out in the rain if it's not raining too hard, but for the most part they head for their run which is covered and get on their ladder or head for the coop.

 

[jacyjones]

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Mine are the same - either back in their shed or under the stable overhang!! Mind you - we get a lot of rain!!

 

[the1much]

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put food in there, a "trail" and ONLY in there, may take 1 or 2 days, but they'll go.,, or scare and chase em in there,herd them along till they get inside, then walk away, if they come out, chase em back , they'll learn that coop = safety.
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my rooster stayed out in the rain for 3 days,, just like a kid,,oh, ya,,, he also has a kid COLD now

 

[leasmom]

I think because it was so traumatic for them to move from the small coop to the larger one with us using fear because the smaller run was enclosed even to us and so we were banging on it to get them to head in the direction my daughter could scoop them up in a net and so they are associating the inside with it because that's where we put them originally, in the inside of the coop and one in particular looks terrified of the inside. We had to force her to go to the run part of it. I think I'll pick up some corn cobs tomorrow and put it inside to intice them. And I may go out tonight with a flashlight to see where they are roosting.

 

[JayBird+16]

My birds love a light rain. I didn’t think it was weird at all – aren’t these birds decedents of chickens that use to run around the jungle? I’m pretty sure it rains there.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Yeah! Mine I thought were just too dumb to come in out of the rain

Until I found them IN MY CAR!!!!

Warning! Do not leave your car windows down -- in case of rain of course....

 

[Darin115]

My girls love the rain. They will be out scratching and doing what chickens do and then it comes a shower or hard rain. They do not pay it any attention at all. They play grab a worm and run with the others hot on their heels. Then suddely it thunders!!! They all look up. Then at each other and then go back to scratching. Then a more prominant thumder!!! Off to the coop they go. One behind the other. Lickity split.

They will sit around the waterer and then one will stick it's head out of the door to see if all is safe to come back out. If it is, one by one back out in the yard they go. If not they generally get a belly full of laying pellets and go to roost.

Got to love the girls.

Darin

 

[the1much]

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sounds like my girls,,,( wife and 2 daughters) hahaha