It’s been raining all day today. Half the run stays properly dry and half the run gets wet from rain coming in at the sides and dripping in from above in a few spots.
All the girls managed to stay dry except for Butterscotch. She must have spent some time standing under a drip because she looked a mess. Her usually bouffant hair style looked more like a punk rocker. Her feathered feet were muddy. She looked ridiculous.
Butterscotch
A punk hair style and muddy feet
What do think of my hair do?
My good side
what are you looking at?
My not so good side
I was a bit concerned for her but my husband pointed out that I couldn’t follow her around with an umbrella. All the other girls managed to stay dry so why is it the one with the fluffiest hair do that insists on standing under a drip!
She has no idea how ridiculous she looks but I can’t imagine it can feel very nice either. I hope she learns to stay out from under the drips in future.
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She looks brilliant!
One of my Pekins, Shelley, is as thick as two short planks. When it rains the others run for cover while she stands there going ‘Where have you gone?’, then ‘Why are my feathers all wet?’
It is funny isn’t it, how most girls get out of the wet but some just don’t seem to get it.
What a character! She looks so comical; it’s a hair-do I recognise well, as Cotton never keeps cover in the rain – and heavens, has it rained here today. I read a guide on keeping silkies, which said that you have to provide good shelter for them for when it rains – unfortunately, no one shared that with Cotton. She, too, looks ridiculous today; whilst Galaxy hasremained under cover for most of the day, Cotton has been scratching in the back border with the more adventurous of the chicks; not only is her top-knot a ridiculous sight, but she is absolutely filthy, her normally pristine white feathers covered in various shades of black and grey!
This absolutely gladdens my heart. These girls will be what they will be. I wonder why the most complicated girls with top knots and feathered feet just have to gravitate to the wet and the mud while more simple feathered girls seem able to stick to the dry areas.
I broke one of my rules with Butterscotch as I had always avoided feathered feet because of mud in wet conditions but couldn’t resist her and now we have muddy feathered feet! However her top knot is more sad than her feet.
It is as you say, you provide the dry area that should be good for them but they are the ones that decide that they will ignore that and go try the one wet part that the rest of the flock would avoid. Why? Because they are chooks of a certain character and they will decide to do what they will do and not go down the equally available sensible path. As you say it is all about character and isn’t that why we love them so. So what can we say!
Those sussex, always taking their own path!
She makes me crack up in these photos, as I too have seen weird hen doos.
Peach, my cochin, often tries to hide when it rains, but has tried to stand under a ladder for shelter. This resulted in one wet unhappy girl. Meanwhile speckles has taken dust baths and strolled around in the rain. She’s brown, so the mud isn’t noticeable on her.
I couldn’t resist putting quite a few photos on because she looked so hilarious. I can just see your girl standing under a ladder for shelter and wondering what is going wrong.
She looks like blossom on a bad hair day.
Oooh, I think she beats Blossom on a bad hair day. A much worse style.