I opened the door (for the first time) to the coop this morning, it's a STEEP ladder down to the ground and they had never been outside before. Only 6 of 28 thought it was worth it. I had to go into the coop and catch them all and move them back up when it started to cool down. I thought I'd find them cuddled together, but they were way too interest in exploring the new enclosure.
I now have a five week old Sebright who doesn't seem to like chickens.This is my sole February hatchling.
She is afraid of the young Silkie and Brahma pullets. She hides from them and cries.
She despises the two-day-old chicks I introduced her to. She stays far away from them, and shoos them off if they approach.
All this bird wants to do is sit on my shoulder and talk to me all day long, like a parakeet.
Now what?
I now have a five week old Sebright who doesn't seem to like chickens.This is my sole February hatchling.
She is afraid of the young Silkie and Brahma pullets. She hides from them and cries.
She despises the two-day-old chicks I introduced her to. She stays far away from them, and shoos them off if they approach.:/
All this bird wants to do is sit on my shoulder and talk to me all day long, like a parakeet.
Now what?
I have been every evening putting my pulleys in the coop because she hey are at the door of the run crying for me! This is day 3 and still they look for me every evening I'm hoping to rid that asap7 days. That's my chicken rule. It always takes my chickens at least 7 days to change anything!!! If after 7 days it's still not working, then you might have to find a creative solution. Best of luck to you - be strong!! (That crying and stink-eye they give is like kryptonite!)
I figured I would have to do that a few days lol but when I built the new coop and run last year the old coop was nothing left but the base and they sat on that thing for days i took and put them in that new coop many a night before they would stay same with the new nest boxes I made new ones they still wait in line for the old one to be vacated!!
It's funny, but my old coop and run which was an A-frame structure. I took the 2 sides and the front off and covered it with wire- I just attached the new coop to the old run with a little tunnel. I never took down the nesting boxes. We just use it as a covered part of their run. But the older chickens that spent the most time in the old coop - still lay their eggs in the old free standing nesting boxes (which are just Lowe's blue buckets). We built them really nice nesting BOXES in the new coop. They won't lay in there unless we put a blue bucket inside the nesting box. It's been close to 8 months. When we first dismantled it, we took the blue buckets away, but left the frame. They continued to lay in the frame - so we gave them back their buckets. During the rain, we put up tarps to cover the A-Frame.- coop section - to try to keep it a little dryer.
