Bone Bunny
Chirping
- Mar 16, 2022
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I am at a loss and a little frustrated with the vil-hens and anti-heroos!
They are over 12 weeks now, all feathered out except for the cockerels tailfeathers, which are still fuzzy (even though one of them has been crowing for 2 weeks now. Previously, when they foraged I was with them outside the whole time and they were put up when I left or bad weather was coming in.
Over the past 2 weeks they have been allowed to forage from sun up to sun down, they barely even touch their chick grower and prefer what they can find instead. They all look, act, and sound healthy so I let them do what chickens do.
Hoowever...
For the past 2 weeks we had no rain until yesterday (its also been in the 90s). And I don't mean it sprinkled, the sky damn near fell out. Thunder/lightening the works. Since they randomly come and go out of their coop and run regularly during the day, I had expected them to do that when the weather started to get bad.
I was sooooooo wrong. Like the kind of wrong that makes you think you might be stupid yourself for thinking otherwise. They were, literally, 6 feet from their run huddled in the corner in the downpour yesterday. THEY WEREN'T EVEN UNDER ONE OF THE SEVERAL FRUIT TREES THEY LIKE TO STAY UNDER ALL DAY WHEN IT ISN'T RAINING!
I have learned two things:
1) Wet chickens do not smell good at all
2) Tryin to catch a wet hen during a thunderstorm is like tryin to turn a snot covered door knob
Should I just let them stay out in the rain when they do this? Was I supposed to train them to do this? If I am supposed to train them, how?
TIA!
They are over 12 weeks now, all feathered out except for the cockerels tailfeathers, which are still fuzzy (even though one of them has been crowing for 2 weeks now. Previously, when they foraged I was with them outside the whole time and they were put up when I left or bad weather was coming in.
Over the past 2 weeks they have been allowed to forage from sun up to sun down, they barely even touch their chick grower and prefer what they can find instead. They all look, act, and sound healthy so I let them do what chickens do.
Hoowever...
For the past 2 weeks we had no rain until yesterday (its also been in the 90s). And I don't mean it sprinkled, the sky damn near fell out. Thunder/lightening the works. Since they randomly come and go out of their coop and run regularly during the day, I had expected them to do that when the weather started to get bad.
I was sooooooo wrong. Like the kind of wrong that makes you think you might be stupid yourself for thinking otherwise. They were, literally, 6 feet from their run huddled in the corner in the downpour yesterday. THEY WEREN'T EVEN UNDER ONE OF THE SEVERAL FRUIT TREES THEY LIKE TO STAY UNDER ALL DAY WHEN IT ISN'T RAINING!
I have learned two things:
1) Wet chickens do not smell good at all
2) Tryin to catch a wet hen during a thunderstorm is like tryin to turn a snot covered door knob
Should I just let them stay out in the rain when they do this? Was I supposed to train them to do this? If I am supposed to train them, how?
TIA!
