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I just purchased a solar powered light with a remote from amazon, it will be here Thursday. I will try this idea out. And the coops is 10 feet from my bedroom window so hopefully with the remote I won't have to go outside in the cold weather to turn it on and off :)

Good suggestion. The coop does get some light from the house through that side window. I've been planning to install an identical window right in front of the roost too so they wouldn't be staring at a wall but I haven't gotten around to it.

Good to know this is the case with someone else. I do plan on covering the top of the run in the winter to minimize snow and freezing rain in there.

Lol they totally are. I have tons of stories of how weird they are. I suspect that they had minimal human contact the first 10 weeks of their lives. I got them from a guy 45 minutes away that had a bunch of them in a stall in a barn. I get the feeling he only went in there to feed them and to...

I doubt it. What causes mites and lice? The hens are rarely in the coop so it's spotless. I've never even had to clean out a pile of poo from there....that's how little time they spend in it. No other creatures go in there. The bedding in pine shavings.

you can kinda see the roost spot here. this was taken in april. there is a wider peice of wood as the bar there now

They used the coop roost when i initially got them in April. I put it in the taller end of the coop so they have enough to stand on the roost and even more when they hunker down. When they stand on the roost they can look out into the run through the hardware cloth. But I plan on closing off...

hmm interesting. never thought about that. due to the design of the run it was convenient to put the roosting bar about 2.5 feet up. The coop is actually on stilts so there is 2 feet of space underneath it and the coop itself is about 3 feet tall at the tallest end. So that roost inside is only...

they never go in to roost its about 25 sq ft roost is around 3 ft long, 3.5 inch wide

I have 4 ameraucana that are 10 months old. The only time they go into the coop is to lay eggs and eat from the feed bucket. Otherwise they are in their large enclosed run all the time. The temperatures are starting to get into the freezing range here in upstate ny and they are continuing to...