Chickin' in the rain

It seems that everyone in Tokyo enjoyed snow yesterday, but here in Tsukuba we had something better! An impressive rain- and windstorm.

As always, the farm turned into a huge pool of water.

Row row row your boat
gently down the puddle ...

.... merrily merrily merrily merrily
chicken will give you a cuddle.

Chickens didn't mind the rain and their bad looks due to a ruined hairstyle. 

Chickin' in the rain.

But at some point, even chickens got tired of the endless, cold rain.

"Can you hand me a towel please?!"

So after a while, their playground looked a bit empty.

"Life sucks."

The run was empty because chickens gathered under the quasi-roof of the old coop, now used as a barn, to endure the rain. (They could have gone back to their coop, sit on a perch and have a nap, but for some mysterious reason they didn't.)

The Boss with his harem on the right side, The-Not-The-Boss alone on the left side.

That was yesterday. By today morning, the situation was much better - a huge water pool shrank into a small puddle.

Look, my feathers are fluffy again!

That was a glimpse into the less glorious moments on the farm. You would hardly find this kind of pictures in promotional pamphlets (or websites or blogs). So these pictures in fact have some documentary value. But chickens would kill me if they knew I published photos of their rain-ruined looks.