Snow and Chickens....

Ditto^^^^

 

Most chickens don’t like any change. Snow is a change. It’s really normal for chickens to avoid it like the plague when they wake up to it. I always open the pop door and let them decide what to do. Normally they stay inside a couple of days, but eventually some venture outside, especially if grass or weeds are poking through it and they can forage. I’ve had some do that in 9” of snow on about the third day of snow.

This photo was taken last spring. It snowed about an inch during the day when they were already out. They never bothered to go in.



I took this photo a few years back when it was 4 degrees above zero. You can see what they decided to do. As long as a cold wind is not blowing, mine choose to go outside regardless of temperature. They don’t like a cold wind at all. A warm breeze in summer is fine but not a cold wind.

You can handle it any way you wish. Different people do it different ways. But I always let mine decide what they want to do.

 

If I know snow is coming, I make a pile of hay in my run, then after the snow, I just flip the hay on top of the snow, and mine come right out!