What time do chickens go to bed!!

[Little Jerry]

Hey there,

this is my girls first night out and it is now 8:30 and dark and they have not gone back into the coop yet. Do I need to kind of show them the way? They are in the run right now, but i'm not sure how predator proof it is yet!

Thanks

Dana

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Since it's their first time I would show them

 

[frogs n chickens]

If the ladies have been sleeping in the coop for a few days they will go back at sundown.
I locked my ladies in the coop for a week while I went on a cruise and let them out when I got back. They return to the roost every night befor dark.

 

[Little Jerry]

Great, thanks guys. I will go tuck them in now!

 

[Rebekah]

It took about a week of me literally pushing my 6 chicks [then aged 3 weeks and 6 weeks] up their ladder into their coop before they magically just got it. They've gone up on their own every night since. Right now, they are going up every night between 7:45 and 8:00... like clockwork.

 

[Little Jerry]

Thanks Rebekah,

I checked out your page great coop and great pics! I also checked out your website AWESOME music pics that is so cool!!

 

[andrea98]

mine have always put their selves to bed right about 8:00 every night

 

[backpack09]

I had to put a nightlight in my coop for a week so they could find there way back in.. now they go in around dusk every night.

 

[skeeter03]

right now it is 9pm every night - they all just wander into the coop and the roosters do one last run around the run to make sure everyone is in. but I had to teach them that kind of funny cause it was 9pm everytime I would go out and shoo them into the coop and lock them up. and now they just take that as their bedtime - wish the kids could be that good about going to bed!

 

[hikerchick]

Mine go to bed in shifts. I have different groups that were brooded together and they all sleep with their broodermates in different places and go to bed at different times. One group starts at around 7 and the final group doesn't go in until almost 9. They get up at different times as well.