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If you haven't seen any pecking order issues yet I doubt they'll magically appear from roosting. They may have "roost time rumbles" - squawking and arguing over who sits where, sometimes even climbing over one another to get to a preferred spot, but that's a very normal thing.

For a roost bar I'd aim for 12" from the wall at least, maybe more, since these are bigger birds. OR run a single roost bar (probably fairly low, since as you mentioned these are bigger birds) shortways across (maybe 14" from back wall) and move the nest box where the 24" high roost bar...

Since they're 10 months old, do you know if they have ever roosted before (like did the farm/breeder have roost bars that looked to have been used)? Were they ever handled before? How dark was it when you tried putting them on the roost? Also since it's hard to gauge size/distance in the...