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When my chickens were little, I moved them out of their pen in my laundry room into a nursery pen I'd made for them outside (right by the back door, snug up against the house). The pen consisted of a big, wooden box and a bunch of old wood-frame windows, all encased in chicken wire to make it...

In my opinion, it matters because roosting up off the ground is a natural behaviour of chickens, something they do to feel safer when they sleep. One might argue that there's no need when the coop fully encloses them. But mother nature is rather like city hall, and you know what they say about...

Quote: Any chance of some photos of their nesting area or nesting boxes? Might be a clue to be seen from afar?? And are your pullets laying yet? I couldn't tell from your post. At the risk of stating the obvious, I'm wondering whether they might not want to go near the nesting boxes because...

Maybe there is something you can do with your coop design to make the nesting boxes "unfriendly" for sleeping? For example, my pullets were roosting in their nesting boxes when I first got their big-girl coop, so I did two things that encouraged them to use the roost area instead: 1. added...