Do chickens like snow?

[gtaus]

I thought I might have seen you there. I usually have to look it up in the alerts page. I sometimes get emails but I’m not specially good at checking my email. I think what happens is, you get an alert from a thread but you don’t go to it right away or you don't notice it and it gets buried. If you don’t look at the post, you don’t get any more alerts until you visit the thread. That resets it. I guess it’s BYC’s way of not pestering you.

That makes sense. I get lots of emails everyday and sometimes I don't have time to check into the BYC forum on every alert. Maybe it timed out like you said.

 

[oldhen2345]

My girls seem to love the snow. Granted it is never very deep, but they are out and about the same as always

 

[gtaus]

My girls seem to love the snow. Granted it is never very deep, but they are out and about the same as always

Thanks for nice pictures. My girls also stayed outside when they could see grass and/or leaves in the snow, but today was the first day that you could see nothing but snow on the ground in the chicken run. For some chicken reason, that was just too much for the hens to handle and they stayed in their coop all day.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

My run is half roofed, half covered with HW cloth. We are going to cover the HW cloth with some scrap plywood for the winter, as it will fill up entirely with snow. It’s only about 4’ high and has a steep pitch down from there.

First winter in this setup. Human access to the run is through the roof. If it’s covered, I at least have a prayer of getting in before spring!

 

[sorce]

I'd try to be patient before training them to go out when you cover or remove the snow.

I was reading about trying to get the chickens to use that ratproof feeder, he said if they have something else to eat they won't learn the feeder.

I reckon the same principle applies.

Starve them for space and they'll eventually go out.

Though, mine took it's highest and longest flight yet getting from coop roof to snowless spot!

Sorce