eevans1213
In the Brooder
- Feb 12, 2024
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Hello all! I need some advice on how to get our chickens to use their roost at night when sleeping. We received these chickens about a week ago. Some are about 6 months old. Most are 1 year old. There are 13 of them. The roosting bars are about 3 feet wide. Unfortunately ever since we got them, only 1 hen sleeps on the roost. Most of them sleep huddled up in corners of the coop floor. And three of them were sleeping in the nesting boxes. We closed them all up tonight except one to help with that issue. How can we train them to use the roost at night? Is it maybe just that they aren’t yet used to the new coop? Or perhaps they are just cold? It does drop to 20 degree F here at night right now. Picture of roost attached! Tonight we went in and placed them on the roosting bars ourselves in hopes that might be a good start in training them. This is the only reason half of them are on the roost in the 2nd photo. The other half hopped right back down into the corner below the roost. Any tips/tricks/advice is much appreciated! Thanks in advance!