Do your chickens have enough sense to come in out of the rain?

[kayri]

Every time it rains hard here (and it has been doing that a lot), my chickens get soaking wet to the bone. Their feathers are all plastered down around them. It is usually about 36 degrees out and we have to take them inside, put them in a small coop and build a fire in the wood stove to dry them out before I put them in their unheated coop.
They can go under the covered porch, or under their own small coop or stay in their coop to stay dry, but they don't seem to.

Does anyone else have that problem, or is it just my chickens?

Kay

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

when it rains my moms barred rocks hop into the coop. if its a drizzle they stay out in the rain for a lil bit or hide under the laddder

 

[tpantali]

Ours do not come in out the rain. We have been known, to the amusement of the neighbors, to chase them around trying to get them into the coop and out the rain.

However they do not come out when it is cold or if there is snow.

 

[hsm5grls]

It has been pouring here all day and the chickens have been pecking around in the mud having a good ol time. They look horrible ( dripping wet) but they are enjoying it. I just figure if it bothered them they would run into there coop. I think it's kinda cute. Silly chickens!!!

 

[Ga Chicken Mom]

My chicks - RIRs, Doms and BOs - stay out in a drizzle but go under the porch if it rains harder. They do not go in the hen house except to lay eggs or eat during the day. They are free range all day and locked up tight in the hen house at night

 

[Pelican49]

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They sound pretty smart to me. Get wet = come in the house and sit by a roaring fire.

 

[seminolewind]

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They sound pretty smart to me. Get wet = come in the house and sit by a roaring fire.

Yes, sounds like they have you pretty well trained

 

[mom'sfolly]

No mine don't come out of the rain. They stand outside the back door, bedraggled and sad looking, and beg for warming treats. They do their sad and pathetic look and hope someone will give them food, they have it perfected. They have even been known to tap on the door.

 

[Henrietta23]

The ones I have now do although not all of mine have in the past. The two hens I have right now either go into the coop or under the deck.

 

[chickiebird]

No, mine stay out and get soaked. They're silkies, so they end up looking like drowned rats, with the tufts on their head going all spiky. They absolutley refuse to go out in the snow though. They peek out the door and will not touch a toe outside if there is snow on the ground.