So I don’t have a fancy timer, but I plugged my brooder light up 2 nights in a row right before dark. The 2nd night (tonight) they were all in the brooder waiting for me to close the hole and make them secure for the night. Thanks for the suggestion, it worked perfectly! As soon as they are...
They’re just being hard headed chickens. I’m fighting the same problem with 3 week old chicks. They run up and down the ladder all day and play in the brooder and all around the mini run. At night they huddle up on the ground. My wife and I waited until dark and scooped them up one by one back...