Seven week old silkies and rain

[AM10]

Hello!
I have two almost seven week old silkies and I just moved them into their outdoor coup (a pre-fab I picked up off Amazon with a covered run). It’s raining pretty hard on and off today and it looks like for the rest of the week and I’m concerned. I let them out into the covered run for only 45 minutes and they’ve managed to get soaked. They don’t really use the ladder to get into the dry coop where their food and water is and I’ve put them back in the coop so they don’t get anymore soaked. Should I just let them hang out in the cover run or am I doing the right thing by keeping them in the coop?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Hello!
I have two almost seven week old silkies and I just moved them into their outdoor coup (a pre-fab I picked up off Amazon with a covered run). It’s raining pretty hard on and off today and it looks like for the rest of the week and I’m concerned. I let them out into the covered run for only 45 minutes and they’ve managed to get soaked. They don’t really use the ladder to get into the dry coop where their food and water is and I’ve put them back in the coop so they don’t get anymore soaked. Should I just let them hang out in the cover run or am I doing the right thing by keeping them in the coop?

I use a prefab, & none of my Silkies have gotten soaked. I also have a tarp that covers the backside, of the run.

Can you post a picture of the coop itself?

 

[Swbertrand1]

It's a coin-flip in answer to your question. We've had Silkies for years, and if there is on thing I'm certain of it's that they're not the smartest birds when it comes to seeking shelter from the weather. I don't know why that is, but it just is....

Our full-size birds will gather under their run's rain shelters during rain, but the Silkies just stand under the bushes and get soaked. There may be a silver lining though:

Two chicks we kept from this spring's hatch seem to be learning a little better. They actually go in the coop if rain gets too heavy, and we even put a shelter over the area of their run where they usually seem to be most of the day. That has helped, but they still get wet far more than our other birds...

 

[MysteryChicken]

It's a coin-flip in answer to your question. We've had Silkies for years, and if there is on thing I'm certain of it's that they're not the smartest birds when it comes to seeking shelter from the weather. I don't know why that is, but it just is....

Our full-size birds will gather under their run's rain shelters during rain, but the Silkies just stand under the bushes and get soaked. There may be a silver lining though:

Two chicks we kept from this spring's hatch seem to be learning a little better. They actually go in the coop if rain gets too heavy, and we even put a shelter over the area of their run where they usually seem to be most of the day. That has helped, but they still get wet far more than our other birds...

Mine are smart enough to go inside during the rain. I've had silkies for years.

The smarter ones tend to be the more less friendly. More wild personality types.

The SQ type silkies are alittle less intelligent due to their friendly personality, so they're in a coop with a covered run to stay dry. I'm not concerned of anything bad happening to them if they get wet, they do dry off pretty quickly by themselves if they do get wet.

 

[AM10]

I use a prefab, & none of my Silkies have gotten soaked. I also have a tarp that covers the backside, of the run.

Can you post a picture of the coop itself?

Yeah of course. I think it was the wind that wet them down.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yeah of course. I think it was the wind that wet them down. View attachment 2803885

I have one of similar design.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Wind may have done it.