I'm a BAAAAAAD Chicken Mommy!

[baymule]

A heavy rain storm was predicted for last night. It got dark and windy as I put the hens up. I shake a can of scratch and call in a high voice, CHICK CHICK CHICK! It is comical to see them swarm around my feet, sometimes I have to shuffle to keep from stepping on them. I got the girls put up all safe and sound, them Mom said she saw a chicken. I looked, but didn't see one.

It stormed all night. 4 1/2" of rain, wind, tree branches fell, power went off..... you get the picture. Weeeeelllll...... this morning there was a very bedraggled hen that spent the night on top of the nest box that juts out from the coop. Poor thing, she spent all night in the storm, exposed to all the wind and rain. I feel so bad. I put her in the coop and gave them all some scratch. I'll just have to look harder next time. Poor hen.

 

[canesisters]

I bet that by now she is the cleanest, shinest hen in the flock....
It happens. Instead of feeling bad for her one bad night, think about the luxery that your girls enjoy every night instead of roosting in trees like the wild cochins and faverolies have to do.

 

[journey11]

Poor thing. I always wonder how the wild birds get by in bad storms like that.

 

[baymule]

She sure was glad to get in the coop!

 

[AMKuska]

Poor thing. I always wonder how the wild birds get by in bad storms like that.

I can't speak for all of the wild birds, but a large number of them perch where ever they can find space under the covered part of the chicken run here.

 

[mydogdory]

It could be worse! I don't have chickens anymore because I got a puppy (yep, the one in my avatar) and she almost killed one. I decided to give them to a family I knew wanted some hens. Anyways, one time I went to give the chickens water, I dumped the water out and I don't remember why but I got distracted and put the water bucket back in the coop and forgot about it.....Over the weekend...Yep, the chickens had no water over the hot weekend. I felt soooooo horrible!! Maybe that's equivalent to leaving one in a storm...I dunno!

 

[buckabucka]

On the colder nights, I close the pop door. I missed a hen one night, and there she was on the roost in the run at -13F. I thought she would be frozen, but she survived the ordeal just fine.

 

[so lucky]

It's amazing just how tough chickens are.

 

[baymule]

Yes, they survive and thrive despite what we do to them.