Chick is scared to walk the board

[Zah-zah]

I haven't had the time to work on the coop this last week. But Charlotte seems to like it that I pick her up and put her in the coop every night now. When I go into the run she comes walking up to me to be picked up.
She's my favourit chicken already from the start. Clara and Joséphine don't like to be picked up. They are moer like 2 friends and Charlotte's my friend. I always put some food on the ground for them and Clare and Joséphine start to eat right away but Charlotte prefers her dinner in the bowl. But that's actually a good thing becorse it gives her a chance to get some more food, she's the skinny one, and when Clara's coming and I'm going she doesn't get much food anymore.

 

[mlheran]

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I think that's it too. My coop is also raised about that high and has a pretty long ramp, but the lowest chicken in the peck order always jumps down from it going out, and jumps close to the top when going back in. I think I've only seen her walk the full ramp when she goes in to lay an egg during the day -as long as the other girls aren't around!

When I first started letting them out of the coop to forage I would pick them up and kind of "walk" them up the ramp when it was time to go in for the evening. Some of them took a few days to catch on, but now they all go inside just before dark.

Good luck!