DO YOU LET YOUR GIRLS GO OUT IN THE RAIN?

[SpringChickens]

I let mine out... they love it! They have a spot where they can go to be dry, but they choose to play. I think the choice is important, though. Don't force them to be out there.

 

[Andora]

Mine love to go out in the rain. My crested birds look so pathetic when they are soaking wet, but they don't seem to care! A few of my birds even love to run through the sprinkler with my ducks and my toddler on hot days...

 

[gritsar]

Today is the first day since last Thursday that I've seen my chickens with dry feathers. They truly looked like a bunch of drowned rats yesterday afternoon. They do their preening and drying off when they go to roost at night.

 

[countrybum]

I chickens come out rain, sleet, snow or hail, if they want to go back in is up to them. There is really no way to get them back in until they are ready. If they get tired of getting wet, they will retreat back to their shelter. Just do not let them get into the swimming pool.

 

[JennsPeeps]

I live in WA State. If we didn't let the girls out when it's raining, they'd be inside much of the year.

My standards don't mind the rain. My banty cochin hates HATES it.

 

[consdrs]

I live in Vancouver WA and if I didn't give my girls the option to go out in the rain if they wanted... they would seldom get out!! Rain or snow they go out!

 

[ga*chick*]

This post reminds me of when I put my first flock in the hen house...it started to pour, and they were all outside in the rain (in the run) just standing at the bottom of the door...I thought they forgot how to get in, so I ran outside to "throw" them in the house. No sooner would I get them in, they hopped right back out.

Since I could see they knew how to get in I figured they liked the "shower"....lol
Its raining here now, and they are all inside hiding.

My big Buff Orp Rooster looks very funny when he is sopping wet..

Margaret

 

[ams3651]

mine can come and go as they please into their run. They will go out if its sprinkling but generally dont like the rain. They didnt like snow either which this winter ment they were inside for weeks even though the door was open.

 

[joebryant]

I sure do, anytime they want. It gets them cleaned up. I've seen them out in a thunderstorm with high winds when all they had to do was go in under the run's covered, dry section or into the coop.

 

[gkeesling]

i leave my coop door to the run open all the time. they can come and go as they please. I've noticed that sometimes they are out in the rain, but if it gets to storming really badly they are back in the coop.