Snow day in Portland

[Xtina]

My ladies finally ventured out of the coop and into the snow! Here's an example of the "squatting" I was asking about in another thread. I do believe those ladies have been trying to seduce me!



*I don't know why Photobucket made those so small and the new version won't let me make them bigger on the fly.

 

[Mahonri]

I imagine that you are getting eggs or will shortly.

Fun hens.

 

[SterlingAcres]

OMG I'm laughing at the 50 Cent reference to chickens. Girl shake that thang.

 

[Xtina]

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Yeah, the Orp has been laying for about a month, and I'm expecting the other two girls to start laying any day now!

 

[ZooMummzy]

My chickens do that squatting thing all the time for me. They gather around me and do it, wanting to get a pet or two. I don't know if there is another reason for it, but that's why they do it.

 

[aiwetir]

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i think they are waiting to be mounted by a roo

@Xtina
do you heat your coop ? i don't and mine have been out of the henhouse all but the first 2 really cold days and one of the heavy snow/wind days. they haven't ventured out into the snow much though. when they did i took some photos myself, posted them here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=114859

 

[ZooMummzy]

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i think they are waiting to be mounted by a roo

@Xtina
do you heat your coop ? i don't and mine have been out of the henhouse all but the first 2 really cold days and one of the heavy snow/wind days. they haven't ventured out into the snow much though. when they did i took some photos myself, posted them here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=114859

Really? Well, lol they are out of luck because I don't have one!

 

[Xtina]

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i think they are waiting to be mounted by a roo

@Xtina
do you heat your coop ? i don't and mine have been out of the henhouse all but the first 2 really cold days and one of the heavy snow/wind days. they haven't ventured out into the snow much though. when they did i took some photos myself, posted them here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=114859

I did start heating it during those really cold days. I hadn't planned on doing it at all, but then the "arctic blast...dun dun dun!" came through and they just seemed so miserable that I took the lamp I heated them with when they were chicks back out there. I think today they're waiting for me to let them out. I just saw them all on their outer perch, away from the heat, making low noises like they were bored...or at least that's how I took it. But I don't want to let them out again, because yesterday they pretty much stripped the only non-snowy part of the yard of everything green in it! I hope some more of this snow melts soon!

 

[Xtina]

Oh, and I knew they were "presenting," I just didn't know the term for it