My chickens go inside their coop as soon as it gets dark, and climb onto their roosts. Our coop is homemade and pretty sturdy. When we build the coop and put the pop door in, it closed and now it doesn’t, it’s closed but not locked, so if they really wanted to, they can push that door open. But...
I feel that, right now my boyfriends mom lets them out in the morning around like 9 or 10 because they are at his house and i’m not sure if that’s early enough or not