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[the poppster]

I have a little joe tiller I take that in the run they
barely let the times stop before they are digging for
the bug and worms

Somewhere I have a photo of my dear departed husband "Rodeo Tilling" the garden leading up a chicken parade! What a hoot!

 

[birdman55]

Each pen is roughly 8 x 8'.

 

[Sylvester017]

I would still let them out, you can just leave the door open and let them decide. Another thing you can do is cover part of the run so they have a dry area to go or even wrap part of the walls in a tarp so it's dry and snow free and they can go where they want. . .

Good advice for most chickens. However, I have one Silkie that doesn't have the good sense to stay out of inclement weather, gets soaked to the skin, and with her CRD issues as a constant problem I can't let my chickens "decide" for themselves -- the little idiot will be in the thick of a storm running through mud puddles and having a great ole time while I have to pay vet bills to get her well again LOL!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Good advice for most chickens.  However, I have one Silkie that doesn't have the good sense to stay out of inclement weather, gets soaked to the skin, and with her CRD issues as a constant problem I can't let my chickens "decide" for themselves -- the little idiot will be in the thick of a storm running through mud puddles and having a great ole time while I have to pay vet bills to get her well again LOL!

Very true, hadn't thought of that haha if they have good sense and/or are fully feathered then they can decide lol probably not Silkies though especially one with that condition. Depends on the kind of chicken I guess but definitely something to consider. I think EEs could probably handle it?

All my birds tend to hide under the one small coop when it's raining or if it's not raining that bad they'll go out. But sometimes they go out anyways. My Orpingtons are notorious for getting soaking wet while my EEs actually stay fairly dry, at least in the last storm we had. They're pretty smart birds haha

 

[Sylvester017]

Very true, hadn't thought of that haha if they have good sense and/or are fully feathered then they can decide lol probably not Silkies though especially one with that condition. Depends on the kind of chicken I guess but definitely something to consider. I think EEs could probably handle it?

My purebred Ameraucana suffered in our humid climate but fluorished during rainstorms so I would say EEs and Amer's are great for rainy climates. Lost our sweet 3-yr-old Ameraucana this summer in our prolonged heatwave so won't be getting any more heavily under-downed breeds as much as I LUV EEs and Am's.

 

[LJoWilly]

Just added solar lanterns

 

[ShrekDawg]

My purebred Ameraucana suffered in our humid climate but fluorished during rainstorms so I would say EEs and Amer's are great for rainy climates.  Lost our sweet 3-yr-old Ameraucana this summer in our prolonged heatwave so won't be getting any more heavily under-downed breeds as much as I LUV EEs and Am's.

Yeah, I would tend to agree because mine have the sense to stay dry but they do also love the rain in small doses haha one of mine drinks out of the mud puddles. And aw sorry is there any way to get misters or a kiddie pool or something for cooling down? Or it's just too much?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Put 4 pieces of siding on today but my phone died so no picture haha

And last weekend and yesterday we finished putting the tar paper on so we could do the siding

A few weeks ago we got cement clapboard on Craigslist, tons of it so we're using that since I didn't know clapboard was cedar and even though it probably would have been fine and no fumes being outside and painted, I didn't want to use cedar near the chickens, plus it's expensive, we got a good deal on this and it's a lot of pieces

 

[Sylvester017]

Just added solar lanterns

OUR LAMPS LOOK LIKE YOURS ONLY NOT SOLAR!

 

[Silkie2]

Just added solar lanterns

I need lamps in/near the barn lol!