Wet Chickens

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lorraine46

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« on: July 16, 2007, 22:12 »
In all the downpours we have been having, my chickens will still amble about in the rain.  A few people have now said to me 'ooo, they'll stop laying ya know'!  Is this a possibility (they haven't yet) or just an old wives tale?  
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Fat Hen

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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2007, 23:21 »
Don't know but I shut my chooks in a covered run in heavy rain to stop them getting waterlogged, worried they'll get hypothermia.  Though mine are silkies and dont have proper feathers.

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alan42

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« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2007, 15:54 »
oh come on people chickens thrushes robins starlings geese ducks turkeys quail swan  there all birds wild birds if given the choice, of course you can let them get wet with absolutley no ill efects at all. feathers are so waterproof its unbelivable even silkies will look wet but you catch them and you will see there skin is bone dry.
no way does it stop them laying if they have somwhere dry to lay now this might be a shed or just as well could be under a bush i take a couple of eggs from under a bush everyday no matter what the weather you must remember chickens at heart are wild birds and behave as such untill we interfear and make them do as we want.
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« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2007, 18:09 »
My hens shake themselves like a dog and the water flys off.  I don't let  them get too wet in the winter though.  It must take some of their body heat to dry themselves off,  but I'm a softy  :roll:



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