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Good response, but this thread died in 2020. Mary

The birds need enough space to fly up to their roosts, and to fly down, without hitting walls or doors. The roosts need to be above your nest boxes, and below winter ventilation. Here our two lower windows are covered in plastic sheeting during the winter, so blizzards aren't blowing on...

We have roosts at several different heights here. The babies sometimes start on our ladder roost, at 1', 2', and 3.5' off the ground. Nearby, there are two roosts about 3' high. In another section of the coop, there are roosts about 4' up, and then the rafters, 8' up in that section, and 9'...

We have branches and saplings as roosts in our coop, bark on, and they work fine. For our standard and bantam sized birds, the diameters rang from 2" to 4". We also have birds roosting in the rafters, where they are 2"x 8 ' boards, narrow side up. It's more about location, height, and social...