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**** UPDATE***** So after two nights manually placing them inside and then checking up on them a few hours later, they’re going in at night. Yesterday and today they went inside all on their own. Hopefully it keeps up.

Of course! Don’t apologize. I always appreciate people’s experiences and comments. The Only way to learn! This forum and the people on here are so helpful.

I don’t think it’s fear since only the older ones are starting to lay. I had another soft one like this in the nesting box last week. But starting to get some nice production. Been busy the past few days… hopefully tomorrow I can get them out to free range. They seem to really love digging...

I just placed them in… a little off topic but it looked like one of my chickens laid an egg on the droppings board but the shell looked really soft. Clearly the egg broke but the shell was like jelly? Does that happen when they first start laying? My chickens just started laying a few weeks ago...

Yea I heard at night you can trick them since they’re in a sleepy state… and place the new birds inside I dunno I think I read that somewhere . I’ll check them a few times and see what happens.

The older ones are always tucked in nicely on the top roost. I’ll check later tonight after I place the newer ones inside manually.

We wanted to add only one new one but the farm we went to had a 3 bird min. The original 6 were 7 but one was a rooster. Figured maybe one of the new ones would end up a rooster but nope… lol. You think once it gets colder they would want to go inside at night for warmth? I could also try that...

Kind of like this.

I don’t have any pictures of the roosting bars. Basically I have a droppings board and then about 12” up off that on a diagonal I have one 65” roosting bar. The. Approximately 12” higher than that I have another 65” roosting bar but perpendicular to the first one. Kind of like an “X” pattern.

So I recently introduced three new hens (approximately 16 weeks old) to my existing flock (23 weeks old). I kept them separated at first by placing a large dog crate inside my run. I kept them separate for about 4 weeks. I then slowly introduced them together by letting them free range outside...