How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] rain and silkies

Friday, September 21, 2012

Re: [CHICKENS-101] rain and silkies

Oh no, I can't allow my chickens to converse with yours!!! That's be horrid! You with a jigsaw...cutting chickens out of pallets....huddling in front of doors in cold soaking down pours of rain....among all of other antics they've pulled! That must explain the tonight's behavior. I am going to watch for their carrier bird who is passing messages between them. Bet you are right, there are eggs under the shade shelter.  I'll get them back, ...I'll ....eat the eggs I find in the shade shelter. I haven't sprayed them in quite awhile and the eggs will be safe. That ought to teach them. 
You think they'll plan a rebellion?  
Cathryn     rainbowsilkiesTM Michigan

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                           Maybe they got a phone call, text, or email from my chickens telling them how hilarious it is to watch the owner get soaked trying to get them in. 
I bet you have eggs under that shade shelter. Lol
Marla
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Subject: [CHICKENS-101] rain and silkies

 It started lightly raining so I told the blue pen silkie girls to go bed. They ran behind their shade and rain shelter and tried to hide from me. You know what?  I think these stinkers thought they were going to spend the night outside, rain and all. There's a little feed and a water dish outside, 2 rain/shade shelters. They like to climb in under their grass and make nests and scratch. Wonder if they think they are wild chickens in the jungle grasses and weeds? In their double and triple fenced, covered, buried fencing pens. LOL!  I should have looked for eggs under the shade shelter with a tarp.
My whites have been trying to hide eggs from me outside in their shade shelter too. What is it?  I don't take their eggs from their nests inside unless they   are not   fertile.
The teeny weeny reds from the Netherlands hide so they can stay out too, I have to go get them. They come in when it is not raining. Do you think they are smart enough to know when it is going to rain the next day and that I shut their in and out doors at night to keep them in? 
Cathryn     rainbowsilkiesTM Michigan