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Maybe take a few days and train them to a fun signal. Mine recognize the cup I feed scratch from. If they aren’t already following me when they see it, rattling it gets everyone’s attention. Setting up a cue like that before ranging might be helpful. Also, I heard this advice and followed it...

Those are really attractive prefabs. I like them both! So here’s another option: now would be a good time for free ranging your younger set. My chicks are free to leave the coop and run starting at four weeks. Often they don’t work up the nerve until six weeks, but that’s where you’re at...

I do. When I open the doors, it’s entirely up to the chicks to come out and they do, but they always have their brooder to go back to if they want. Sometimes older chicks still slip in there, but never adults. (Rogue banty rooster lives in another pen now.) I would definitely make the...

Bantams especially can use teeny tiny doors. My bantam rooster made it into my outdoor brooder: the door is only 2”x4”. Take a piece of cardboard and attach it to the door with a much smaller hole cut that only the bantams can use. You still have to integrate if that’s your goal and convince...