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I took the outside roosts out for now. I'm going to put them back up, but lower. They are back inside at night now! Thank you to everyone on here so much.

Thank you! My boyfriend and I built it from plans that I purchased off of mypetchicken.com. It's the first thing I've ever built and our first project together! Super happy with it!

Don't laugh but I repainted the inside of the coop thinking maybe it was too light in there.

Good question. Eventually I want to put an automatic door on the henhouse. I just thought it would be convenient and if we are out of town, I feel like I'd feel better. But the coop does have a skirt to protect from digging predators. I just assumed they were safer inside at night.

Thank you. Sounds like removing the outside roosts is the general consensus. I hate that though. I really like them. Lol.

Coop design

We built a new coop for our three year old chickens. This one has roosting poles in the enclosed coop area as well as the henhouse. Every night they fall asleep on the outside poles. I've tried shutting them in the henhouse for a few days (with food and water) but they still want to roost...