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The nest boxes are shown in the link. I've just put a hinged flap over the entrance. It folds back onto the "roof" of the nest boxes, and I hold it open with a flyscreen swivel. It's very light, it's just thin melamine...

Yes, it isn't the mechanism that "gets me", it's figuring out the movements. Your ropes go in the direction you want the windows to be in. To open this thing from the outside requires the movement to be the other way....(I could push it, but then it'd need to go UP and then it would need to go...

I'm not going out there late. It can happen at bedtime or not at all, as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to rig up pulleys....

and habit. Every day I let them out and off they go. They're all like "why are we in here?". What I need is some sort of pulley to open the nest box flap from outside. Having to go into the run is just an opportunity for them to bolt. Then I have to entice them back in. I put them on...

I hope so, they can really turn on the emotional blackmail, those chickens. Those faces, those dashes for freedom...... :(

Today they spent all day in their run. I would have let them out if they'd all laid, but only 3 did..... I hope little "nest in the bushes" won't be traumatised by having to stay away from her little hidey-hole.

No, it was the new house that did it. I was warned that they'd try to go to their old house. Most just moved straight in to the new house, obviously one girl felt she needed to make her own arrangements. Quote: I can tell who they are if I really look at them, and their previous people put...

I hope they adjust. They'd have laid (one would lay later on) when I get them up in the morning. They didn't yesterday, the boxes were blocked. Today, only 2 laid. I hope there isn't another secret nest out there started up because the boxes are blocked. If they get the hang of the perch...

Thanks. That's a mugshot of a perpetrator, if ever I saw one :D I think it might just be one of them. I've been getting 3 eggs, I just thought somebody might be a bit "off" with the stress of changing houses. I had thought somebody might be laying in the bushes and had looked, but didn't...

Update: I went out to let them out and there is poo along the side where the perch is, particularly quite a big pile where the girl who hunkered down was sitting. I think she stayed on the perch! I'm so proud.... :D There was also 2 piles along that same side, spaced out, and some in the...

When I adopted them they came with a house. That house does have little perches (removable) but they might not have been used by the people or the chooks. Their other house that they went into is quite small and I don't think they made use of the perch in it. I'm not sure where they were...

Thanks, I'll believe it if I see it

I get boxes of veges and they can leap into the air and grab something out of the box through the holes in the sides of the boxes. If I put the vege box down in the laundry they'd walk straight inside and start helping themselves (until I fixed the closer on the security door which had come loose).

What is with that? Mine have their pellets always there, yet they behave like starving waifs, standing at the door and running like mad women if I go outside. If I give them stuff, they fall on it like they've never been given a square meal. They grab something and run away. Then everybody...

They are 4 isa browns, I'm not sure of their age, I adopted them all together. They've recently moved into a new house from a different one. I don't think they perched in the other house although there is a perch in there. This is their new house, the perch is probably about a metre by half a...

me again.... Today, I made a flap to close off the nest boxes. I just went down there to put them onto the roost and they were all huddled together in the corner next to the nest boxes. I put them on the roost, but most of them jumped off and went back to "their" corner. One of them...

Thanks, it shouldn't be difficult to rig something up, but I've got other things I need to do... The chooks have had their quota of time and effort providing them with the comfort to which they are accustomed. I wish they'd just be like chickens you hear about online, roosting on their perches...

I was trying to empty the cat litter and they were all "ooh, ooh, what've you got for us?"

Nah, I was kidding. If I didn't want them pooing everywhere and tripping me over and grabbing the veges and all of that, I could just keep them confined to a yard. They're cool (except for sleeping in the nest boxes, that we need to fix)

hahaha good one (reminds me of that scene in the movie "Uncle Buck")