My chickens sleep in the nesting box

Brookliner · Jan 3, 2013

Jules21 said:
Gosh seems like I'm not the only one having problems with my chooks sleeping in their nesting boxes and not on their perch!
3 weeks to retrain, really!!! yikes.
I blocked off the boxes last night, but they somehow managed to scrape, move and upset my invention and slept on the cardboard, plastic heap. So still had chooks not on their perch!!!
I did pick one up and put on the perch, don't know if she stayed there though. Seems like I need to keep doing that. I knew chooks weren't going to be work free, but wow, training them to sit where they should every night is going to be tiresome lol. I didn't know chooks pooped even in their sleep :-(

They mostly poop in their sleep. That's why poop boards work so well.

jbdthompson · Apr 27, 2013

Hello all. New to the site. I got 3 hens about 4 months old a month ago. They had been sleeping in the nesting boxes since i got them. After reading this thread I moved my roost from about 8 in higher than the boxes to about a foot higher. That night I pulled them out of the boxes and put them on the roost. That was about 10 days ago and ever since then they go straight to the roost every evening. Thanks a lot everyone! I just hope they remember the nesting boxes when they start laying.

lulu420 · Nov 18, 2013

I definitely need to move my roost into the house part of the coop--thanks in advance for the tip about moving the girls to the roosts!

Mine are around or approaching 6 months and haven't started laying yet...even though I have other laying baskets elsewhere set up with golf balls in them, and some of their combs are turning red, could the fact that they sleep in the nesting boxes prohibit them from laying there?

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