Can hens predict the weather?

[ajacskr]

I have noticed that a couple of days before a cold snap or a snow (way too many of them this year), my girls seem to hold their eggs.
I have somewhere around 150 chickes (ages from 4 weeks to Scruffy, we have no ideal how old she is, but we keep her because she is very good at taking one day olds that some of the others reject.) The girls get added light every day.

On the average we get about 30 eggs a day. But occasionally when we go to the hen house all we get is 8 to ten eggs. A couple of days afterwards here come the snow or cold. Most of the time it is snow. Even in the cold usually get our normal egg count.

The low count before the snow has happened at least 4 times now. At least that is when we started noticing a pattern.

I was just wondering if anyone else has girls that can predict the weather.

 

[Baymule]

No snow here, so don't know about that. But my hens beat the weatherman................if they are wet, it is raining, if they are dry, it isn't raining.

 

[ajacskr]

Maybe the TV stations should hire chickens to do the weather. After all they work for scratch. Or so I have heard, mine get alot more than just scratch.

 

[msdoolittle]

I wonder if the low pressure from the storm affects the egg production. Hmm. I'll have to take note next time we get a storm. We don't usually get snow, so I can't report on that!

 

[SunnyAlberta]

This morning my girls are very agitated. Nothing has changed in their coop or run, however the weather prediction is for a 30% chance of a thunderstorm later today. I wonder if the girls know that the nasty weather is a sure thing.

 

[kcfuerst]

Very interesting now that you mention it. My eggs went down two days ago by 30% and it is supposed to rain today. Might be something to it.

 

[kingsfarm]

Its very hot in Louisiana and egg production has surely gone down ...