Do Your Birds Like Wet Weather?

[Dawnclucks22]

Hey everyone! This is a completely random question as it's actually pretty hot outside, but I want to hear from you guys. Do your chickens like rain? For mine, it depends - if it's sprinkling a bit, they don't mind, but if it's pouring then they all go run for cover. When it's hot sometimes I try to mist them with the hose but they run away... So no more of that. What're your thoughts?

 

[GC-Raptor]

My girls are part duck, they love to splash in a muddy puddle, actually scratch around and peck.
A shower they don't mind too much and they mosey around the pen, shaking off and dunking under cover occasionally to dry.
I hang my garden hose on the fence during a heatwave, and set it to mist and the girls hangout underneath. . It took around 15 minutes, but, one by one they took to it. GC

 

[AleighaAcre]

My girls are playing in the rain right now actually. They didn't get a chance to munch on the kale I threw in before it came down. -FL

 

[cow whisperer]

For my ladies it all depends on the weather and what kind of mood they are in except for Boo who stays out in the rain even if it's a heavy downpour and throws a fit if I attempt to dry her off.
If I'm using the outside spicket and hose to clean stuff or give them fresh water and I just give the crowd of ladies a slight mist they don't mind but if the water touches Mr.Rooster he throws a hissy fit and goes running for cover. Such a chicken (Lol)!

 

[cow whisperer]

We just got over having heavy rain and a thunderstorm- just before it ended I stepped outside and who did I see playing in the rain- none other than my BO rooster, Roo while everyone else was either inside or hiding under the coop.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Mine don't seem to mind the rain. But in a downpour they hide. And they take cover if the wind picks up even if it's not raining.lol

 

[cow whisperer]

Mine do too but right now the storm has picked up again and it's worse than when it began so I have a feeling that at some point the power and wifi are going to go out(thank goodness I didn't take the good heavy duty flashlight back out to the tool trailer where it belongs) so I best go lock in the chickens and gather any eggs.

 

[Wilmer Gehman]

I have a few brave hens who venture out in the rain, but most of them try to stay dry. in their run there are a few low places where rain often collects and creates small mud puddles. The hens will walk through them, but thats about it.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Mine do too but right now the storm has picked up again and it's worse than when it began so I have a feeling that at some point the power and wifi are going to go out(thank goodness I didn't take the good heavy duty flashlight back out to the tool trailer where it belongs) so I best go lock in the chickens and gather any eggs.

Hope the storms not too bad. Keep us posted....

 

[cow whisperer]

I will as long as I have wifi.
When the snow began to melt earlier this year, I had a big lake in the yard that was kind of deep even by the house so I had put down a couple of pieces of slab wood end to end to make a small footbridge. Well, to make a long story short when the chickens were out they would form a line and follow me to drier ground. It was a sight, I was a "Mama Duck with her hatchlings"!!!