Do your chickens enjoy snow 0.0?

[mylilchix]

My flock really don't like the snow! When it snows I go otu and shovel it so they'll come out of the coop. As long as the run is clear they don't mind it, and I've acually seen them eating it. Hopefully, we'll have part of their run covered by next winter so they have a dry place to hang oout all year round.

Sonja

 

[purr]

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mine too they hate it!!

 

[Rustywreck]

We've had snow on the ground for two months. Two days ago the electric heater in the coup malfunctioned and the temp was 100 degrees inside (4 degrees outside). That day was the first day they wanted to get out in the snow.
Since then, they will go out on the packed snow for a little while, but will have nothing to with areas that aren't shoveled.
It may be coincidental, but the day it was 100 degrees inside they layed more eggs than they had until then.

 

[Ricks Chicks]

Mine don't like it at all. I put a roof on there run so they will come out in the cold but no sno. I have a path snow blowede to the coop and let them free range regularly but they stay in the path even when I come up behind them and pass they will not go off the path into the snow

 

[LynneP]

After 10 snowstorms, mine are adjusting. What they really love, though, is their outdoor platform, which is big enough for all 12 to use just outside the pop door whether there is snow or not. They they toss treats around and jump down to the snow to get them. The platform lets me get them out more often than I otherwise could.


These photos are from their first snow, they were quizzical to say the least.
We added snow boards shortly after that, to cut drifting/wind.

 

[CityChook]

My girls have a covered run but the snow still blows in. They won't even go outside in that! Just after Christmas they came out of the coop for the first time (it finally warmed up to the teens-twenties) and they were not very enthused about the snow. They won't leave the shoveled path, which has sections of pretty serious ice. After watching 2 hens haphazardly "skate" across the thick ice (I like the earlier Bambi on ice reference), one girl decided to "fly" over the icy patch to the cleared patio beyond. She didn't make it to the other side and had to make an emergency ice landing with her feet sprawled and clawing and spiral sliding to a halt on her fluffy butt. I thought my DH was going to spit his coffee out he was laughing so hard. I told the girls that they'd better readjust the thinking because it's only December and we're in MN. We have another 4 months to go.... I built them a makeshift roost on my patio against the house where they can sunbathe and not have to stand on the cold concrete. They seem to like it. So spoiled.