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Diane
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All my hens are refusing to come out of their run - to free-range in the lovely freezing cold white stuff. They are insisting on breakfast (and lunch and tea) to be delivered by their servant..straight to the foot of their ramp :shock:
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Ha! Mine did that when we had a lot of snow a few years ago. There was a very narrow pathway through the snow to the drinker (and back again!)
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My hens and ducks have been out and about the field in the snow all day today. I kept them inside yesterday while it was snowing and blowing. Must be tougher than your soft southern English birds :wink:
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I have three welsummers in a flock of 10. They are real primadonnas and won't go anywhere near snow, in case it messes their fine plumage I supppose. The others hens, hybrids, don't mind at all but they are beginning to look a bit scruffy.

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Dear Alan, you are quite correct, and they also have rougher hands.... :wink: :)
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Hi OH

Remember Grock & Lizzie :shock: :shock: :evil:

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Our (literally) free range hen which roams all the gardens in the neighbourhood and roosts in a tree has been striding through the snow without any discomfort, it appears. In this weather, her only food are the pickings below the hanging bird feeders.
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I do indeed, and i still haven't managed to get rid of them. :)
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My hens have tried, not very successfully to fly from their bob hole to a covered bit of the orchard about 20 ft away without putting their feet down on the snow. One nearly made it which was quite impressive.
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Wow...loved to have seen that heroic effort :D

Mine are still lurking in their run in spite of my having cleared a big area all around...just to prove that grass still exists.
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