I tried to encourage them to stay indoors today

[biddyboo]

Cold, windy, awful day, but there they all were, lined up at the gate of their run, impatient to dash out to their free range. Feathers were blowing inside out, but they didn't seem to mind. When I called from the back porch to the cats to come finish up the last of a gallon of ice cream, guess who beat them to container? Yep, the hens. By the time the cats sauntered up, 8 or 9 hens were bobbling their heads up and down, scarfing all the melted icecream they could inhale before I shooed them away. Greedy little girls, they are. Our son Steve and I had to drive them back to their run awhile ago. They didn't mind the blustery cold, but we didn't want to be out there, in the wind and dark, calling "Here, Chick, chick, chick," trying to see barred rocks and black astrolorps in the shadows!" ~G

 

[gritsar]

Mine are still out, wish they'd go in. All the rain and cold today. They look like drowned rats.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

It was really cold out today but I let the remaining 9 hens out anyway, they came out for maybe 5 minutes then rushed back inside and sat on the roosts for the rest of the day LOL wimps!

Though to be fair to my remaining 4 red hens, they're moulting lol

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Yah, My kids aren't the brightest and I didn't trust my two mille fleur booteds to have enough sense to come in and it was -18 so they are soooo mad at me that the pop door didn't spontaneously pop today....

 

[SilkieTime]

The wind is blowing from the opposite direction and was going in the cracks of the walls and snow was flying in. My husband put hard platic on the out side.
This is the first time that the wind has ever blown from the other way sense we built the barn. There is a big barn on the other side to keep the wind, rain and snow out all the other times. Now life is good.
I love my husband