PoppasGrill
Songster
Our 8 chicks have been in a store coop for 5 weeks or so. We let them out during the day to interact with the other hens, and at night they go back to the coop like good girls will do.
I need to clear that coop for the next clutch that broody hen is setting on. What’s the easiest, if there is one, way to get them to go to the big coop at night. I can’t lock them in the new home during the day to get used to it, like we’ve done to previous clutches, since there are older hens currently housing in the bigger coop. I don’t want to displace them if we aren’t out there to open the coop before they say it’s bedtime.
I need to clear that coop for the next clutch that broody hen is setting on. What’s the easiest, if there is one, way to get them to go to the big coop at night. I can’t lock them in the new home during the day to get used to it, like we’ve done to previous clutches, since there are older hens currently housing in the bigger coop. I don’t want to displace them if we aren’t out there to open the coop before they say it’s bedtime.