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Even though as babies they sleep "piled up" their instinct should push them to roost, especially if you have introduced it to them. I think it is the street light. I have a light in my coop that I never really use but one time, it was late and we were getting in from bible study so I went to...

The flat side of the 2x4 is actually not good for their feet. In fact the Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening says that their perch "should not be thicker than they can grasp with ease, as that would occasion them to be duck-footed". If you watch, many chickens who have to roost on...

Definitely, I would put them to roost in the evening after dark. When dusk arrives my girls, no matter where they are, march into their coop and hop up onto the roost. I think if you place them on the roost a few times they will get the idea and their instinct will take over. I would place them...

Roosting is instinctive behavior so if they are not roosting something made them stop. It could have just been they got spooked or something. Their roost needs to be elevated above the level of their nesting boxes or anything else they might roost in or on. Their roost also needs to be...