Can someone please tell me why I never see roosts in the runs?

[Tala]

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Ditto.

I have "junk" in my runs for them to roost on in the daytime, but my pens are just that PENS with a sheltered area of the pen. I have to make sure that the actual ROOST that I want them to sleep on is the tallest so that they sleep in the area that predators can't reach though --- also I keep the "toy" roosts in the very CENTER so that they are too far from the sides should they try sleeping "outside" sometime. Having junk in the run (old shipping crate/pallet thing for roosting and log rounds, etc) DOES give them something to climb on and they do sit on them a lot in the daytime, but as stated it also makes for a bit of an obstacle course for me to get around in there especially when I have my annoying/meanish roo jumping at me. Yeah it may be a pro to the chickens, but it's definitely a con to me. Oh well, the things I do for my feather kids

 

[annie3001]

i have roosts in my run. all the chickens use it too!!

they can nap in the run comfortably if they want. they put themself to bed as well. good little girlys!

 

[sheps4her]

my chickies have roosts in their run. they like to roost after breakfast and also other times of the day. They never roost out there at night...they ALWAYS go inside for that.

here is a pic from this morning. It was taken from the window, so I appologize that it is not to clear.

 

[GiddyMoon]

Thank you everyone!

It's nice to know I wasn't far off afterall ..it just seemed that every photo I saw with people showing their runs or talking about them, no one ever had stuff inside there for them "to do" I feel much better now!

 

[cottage19]

We have a single 8 foot long 2x4" roost in our covered 6x20 foot run and our 7 hens use it all of the time. We call it the gossip board...