They sleep outside in the coop. When I got my first four chicks, I bought them at a flea market and brought them home with no coop or knowing anything about chickens. I put them in a dog cage with the heating lamps and they stayed indoors for about four months.
By then I bought a small coop...
I bought four baby chicks in October of 2013. Of the four only one, Sweetie, is still with me. She is six years old and is still laying. Sweetie sleeps in a dog cage in the house. She is the queen of the flock and goes out every morning and spends they day with the flock telling them what to...