ty, this is an old post and everyone has worked out their sleeping. Attaching a cute pic of my 3 new 8wk Opal Legbar pullets tho. I'm so proud of them! They are eating (with a little screeching and running) with the flock and last night I found they had abandoned their safe area below and...
Ya it's a little weird. It's supposed to be 2 bars, and they are 8 inches apart I believe. But they are in a frame and the outer boards of the frame ended up being closer. The "frame" ones are stood on end and the "roost" ones are sideways to be wider. They do seem to settle down on the...
I'm wondering about a new behavior I'm seeing and if it's pretty normal and also what I can do to change it. I have 3 ages of birds in my coop: about 18 weeks, about 7 weeks, and about 3 weeks. The 3 weekers are on the floor in a brooder, but they've been increasingly coming out through...