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So far, my flock has not voluntarily returned to the coop at night - we end up having to catch them. Hopefully, this improves over time, as they have only been in the coop a few nights, but they are using the roost bars. We plan to install an automatic pop door sometime in the future, when we...

Sounds great! My spouse is willing to change up what doesn’t work or improve where needed. I wanted to paint interior too. We will electrify the coop later, so there will be light! Our flock is almost 11weeks old!

That’s great! My spouse has been great with the building.....BUT... he spent some formative years in the rural south with some chickens providing eggs and meat for their family. He thinks all of this is overkill (even though west central Ohio is much colder than the south), but he did put down...

We did discuss the option of covering the back wall due to ummm *splatter*. We figured we would wait n see. The plastic sign board sound like a good idea, though, so we will keep that in mind! Thx.

Thanks! I told spouse, whose had this idea, and built this coop, and it made him smile!

Here is our current solution to the roost question I posted a few days ago. Here is the previous post: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/roosts-need-help.1244073/ and several offered up useful ideas: @jthornton, @kesrchicky16, @Ridgerunner, @paneubert, @deepbluesea. Here are two...