Ah so making sure she was ok.
Yep that’s right up there, with pooping in a clean waterer. Particularly chicks. I’m not even sure how they manage to do that!
Edit: no that’s not right up there with trudging through freezing weather. But it still drives me bananas lol.
I have light brahmas and lavender cochins who are a light silver. They do the exact same! The last giant storm we had with a baby tornado, tore down their front run, so we had to move them to the back. It rained for a week straight. Never a light mist, but always full on rain and the lows were in the mid 30'sF. I swear they refused to take cover. There's hiding spots all over the large run, but no! Rolling in the mud puddles and standing in the rain soaking wet. I kept putting them in the coop to dry off, and they refused to stay and dry off. Finally I gave up. They are still alive, so that's good.
I gave up on washing my lavender cochins butts. They are not fans of it, and it gets poopie angain right after. Sometimes the other chicken get that way, but in the morning they've cleaned themselves. Not the cochins. Such diry birds for being so beautiful. I do verbally shame them, but they don't care.
That used to be a big issue for us, too. We put the fake eggs in the nest boxes, and they finally figured it out. We also use old 2 drawer file cabinets with the top drawer removed. They really like those a lot. I think because they are big, but also make them feel secure. I spent a lot of money on the fancy nest boxes with the roll away bottom. The kind where the egg rolls into a box with a lid. Nope. They hate those. My husband got the idea for the file cabinets at a yard sale. Got two of them for $8.
Lol. And they peck at the spray foam insulation on the inside of the metal barn door.
