night return to coop

Five pullets, second night as a chicken keeper. Night #1 I had to grab each girl and put her in the coop by hand, and I sat there until the auto-door closed. A little stressful for all of us. So I did my internet sleuthing and read that putting a small light inside the coop before dusk will...

Hi all, I have 3 hens all the same age, however 2 or the 3 have started to refuse to roost in the coop at night while the other one stays in there all night and half the day, she also isn’t broody at all. The other 2 have decided to roost on the dogs bed. I also cleaned the coop out and...

Hi all, New member here! We have two hens, a gorgeous New Hampshire and a lovely little leghorn. They’re the sweetest hens and always come home to their coop at night. Now, about 2 months ago our neighbours rooster started visiting us, And of course, our hens and the rooster now adore each...

My ducks normally would go to their coup in the evening on their own however lately since they’ve been hanging out in the pond all day, they refuse to go to bed. I try to coax them out of the pond but the won’t get out and I swear they even mess with me by swimming up like they will and then...

My chickens aren’t automatically going up their ramp to sleep. Is there anything I can do to help guide them? First and second night we ended up physically putting them in therir nesting box.

Hello- We are raising our first flock of 13 guinea fowl and have raised them from keets alongside 14 chicks. (Same coop but separate pen). Our guineas are now 6 weeks old and we are trying to figure out the best way to release them and insure that they will return to the coop at night. I have...

My polish chicken started, a few days ago, putting herself to bed on the roof of the coop. When I go down to close them up at night I have to grab her off of there. Why would she be doing this and how can I deter her? She seems to be pretty low in the pecking order, could it be a result of...

Hi all, First time BYCer, got the beginner jitters. So it's coming up to two weeks and I'm still struggling to get my two girls to go back into the coop on their own and to roost. I've searched the super helpful advice here; I've put on a light for the past few nights, changed the ramp to...

Hello! I have a quick question... I've been integrating 3 new pullets (now 16-17 weeks old) to my existing flock of 3 chickens. I've been following the recommended steps and today has been the first day I put them all together in the same enclosed run after free ranging. Things are going very...

Morning, Chicken Friends!! We are putting up a new fence to house large animals on our new farm. I decided that I could use the same energizer for the chicken netting and the new electric fence if I moved the chickens down the hill. So, Monday evening, we did just that. But, when it came time...

My chicks have been out in the coop since Wednesday and everything has been running incredibly smoothly... until it’s time to go to bed. On 3 separate nights now my RIR pullet has made distressed peeps during sunset, which is the time we’ve chosen to close the coop door from the run. She paces...

I originally had a problem and none of the chickens would go into the coop in the evening. I read some threads and have now put a lightbulb in their. The older 6 birds (about 4 mos.) now go into the coop at dusk. The younger (birds 3 mos-2 mos) huddle under the coop and I have to put them in...

Hi, We have 2 welsh harlequin pet drakes that were born in April. They are full size now and are handsomely sporting their big boy feathers. We have an 8x16 foot fully enclosed run - 1/2 wire cloth sides and top with buried or aproned cloth surrounding the run. The run includes a pond (with an...

My 5 beautiful chicks are just about 4 weeks old. I have tried everything to get them to go from run to coop at night on their own but they won't. They will just start to sleep down in run. I move food water up into coop, but they don't seem to care. I tried turning off outside light and...

An hour or so before it gets dark, I go out to put my 50 or so free-ranging chickens in their coop for the night. Some go in fine, others have to be chased/caught. It’s getting ridiculous. I have a bright red scoop for scratch, I shake it and toss the scratch in their run to draw them in. The...

The main reason we haven’t been free ranging our hens is because we have a family with dogs in our neighborhood (who would definitely eat our chickens) that basically roam the neighborhood as they please, but we just found out that family is moving! :ya So we would love to try to teach our...

I have 5 hens, one Cornish X and 4 future egg layers about 7 weeks old. I splurged on an automatic door for my coop and overall it is great. However, it is not working 100%. When first moved into the coop, I kept them there for 3.5 days. At the end of the first free day, I shooed them in the...

Okay so looking for reasons to their craziness or help. I have 3 older pullets and Martin who always slept in their coop with no issues. We do now have 6 - 6 week old chicks who we have recently divided off a section of our run (its huge we expanded for them) so that they can all get used to...

Hi all, I have two 20 week old Call Ducks who have a house on an island, which is situated in the middle of my pond. I've had them for a week now and every night I have to walk over to the island to put them into their house. They come out on their own in the morning and go in and out during the...

I need some advice. All my silkies go to their coop each night, except one. Louise paces by her run door, making lots of noise when the others go into the coop. Open the run door and she'll hop out, pecking bits of grass, not going anywhere. When I place her on the ladder, which we do...