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    Using a Light to keep production up? Pros/Cons

    the last two winters I had a light on a timer during winter. Seemed to work great. I was about to hook it up for this fall/winter and wondered... does keeping the production up hurt the birds. Should I allow Mother Nature to work and just take whatever eggs we get during winter? Does keeping...
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    Chickens don't seem to like the roosts and sleep in egg boxes

    Thanks Jed. I have actually replaced the branches with some 2 x 2 (I just ripped a 2x4 with a skill saw). It is less wobbly now. I wonder about the draft issue. I have a vent up there and have been leaving a window open in summer but maybe since it's cooling off I should shut it.
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    Chickens don't seem to like the roosts and sleep in egg boxes

    I've done that but maybe not late enough (they are still wide awake). The design of my coop doesn't make it really easy to put 8 hens up on the roosts. I've tried to put 4 up there thinking the others will clue in. I am sure they will get it. They are still teenagers I guess.
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    Chickens don't seem to like the roosts and sleep in egg boxes

    Thanks. I do have straw in there and pine shavings in the rest of the coop floor, but I don't think the straw would be a draw for smell. The thing is they love the nesting boxes, but they think it is their bed / gathering place. I think I am going to continue to not allow them access to it at...
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    Chickens don't seem to like the roosts and sleep in egg boxes

    The roosts are above the nesting boxes. I generally followed a design that we liked on a youtube video, although I customized a lot of it due to living where we get a lot of snow. I don't have any photos of the inside of my coop but the attached photos are identical to my set up. You can see...
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    Chickens don't seem to like the roosts and sleep in egg boxes

    Hi, We have 8 hens that are just coming into laying age (we literally just got two eggs this week). I am not sure which hen(s) laid the eggs because they were just on the ground in the run when I went out to check on them on two consecutive days. Here is the issue. I have two roosts inside...
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    Hi!

    Hi everybody. First post for me. My name is Rob. If anyone is wondering the origins of my login name, Carlos Zaragoza is a fictional character from a folk song about a fighting rooster named "Gallo del Cielo". My wife bugged me for years to build a coop so we could raise chickens. I resisted...
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