What do your chickens do in the snow?

[Chikyboy]

I was wondering what peoples chickens do in the snow. Mine HATE it, and my three top hens (in the pecking order) always go to the top of a swing set I have in my backyard. A pic of them doing so is pictured below. Do yours stay in the coop? Do they go outside? I forgot to mention, mine stay in the coop but at 10:00-12:00 a.m. I kick them out.

 

[Mrs. K]

Well the first snow, they are horrified. I flip hay on top of it, in as big of space as I can, and out they come.

After that, they are just fine, and ignore it.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Mine eat it like crazy. They don’t really like it, but they’ll walk in it.

 

[Sun dancing chicken]

My chickens eat it until they get cold and hide in the run

 

[neo71665]

Mine just stayed in the covered run out of it last year. All their feed and a waterer in there so they just stayed.

 

[The-White-Elephant]

I was wondering what peoples chickens do in the snow. Mine HATE it, and my three top hens (in the pecking order) always go to the top of a swing set I have in my backyard. A pic of them doing so is pictured below. Do yours stay in the coop? Do they go outside? I forgot to mention, mine stay in the coop but at 10:00-12:00 a.m. I kick them out.
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Beautiful picture! But why do you kick them out of the coop in the middle of the night?

 

[Chikyboy]

Beautiful picture! But why do you kick them out of the coop in the middle of the night?

I said a.m.

 

[The-White-Elephant]

I said a.m.

Yeah, but 12 am is midnight!

 

[Chikyboy]

Yeah, but 12 am is midnight!

Okay, 10:00 am-12:00 pm.

 

[3KillerBs]

It didn't stick on the ground but on Monday, while I was at work, it was snowing big flakes for a couple hours.

It was my husband's day off and he reported that all the chickens stayed under cover either in the coop or in the brooder (which is sitting in the run and which I leave open to give the chickens shelter options), except for the "rooster" (7-month cockerel), who was either watching the strange phenomenon to make sure it wasn't dangerous or was just too dumb to come in out of the snow.