chicken doesn't sit on perch at night

[Rushdoggie]

Some do like wide and flat.

Where are you located? Do you get frozen ground? She may still eventually go to roost. Some take longer than others.

The weather here in the PNW is still pretty nice, not even close to freezing. And teh coop is elevated. So thats probably not a factor.

Its nice to know that other people have birds who like the ground!

 

[Rushdoggie]

so here's the whole set up, coop and run

the outside of the a frame

 

[Rushdoggie]

Miss Ricky posing inside, you can see the 3 roosts

3 girls on a roost

 

[Rushdoggie]

this is where Miss Bubbles likes to sleep, down between the post and the roof...

 

[ChickNanny13]

I got a similar "issue" .... My 4BO are 27wks, prefer to roost on the lowest roost that has no poop board under it The highest (above the nest box) is the one with the Poop Board, my other girls roosted there at night. The past 2wks I've been going out & putting them up on the high roost as it gets dark, they're at the door waiting for me Lazy Girls, keep hoping someday soon they'll get it.

 

[aart]

this is where Miss Bubbles likes to sleep, down between the post and the roof...

Two sleep on this roost and the 3rd gets down on the floor?
'Head room' is tight when roof is closed, surprised they don't use the middle roost,
tho the feeder and waterer is kind of in the way there.

 

[DuckingLost]

My silkies all lay in top of one other on the floor of the coop. I don't understand it but I have read some Silkies are knows to huddle on the ground. However, when are Aust. "Little Sister" started we found a sore on her toe. It's healed and she still piles on top of the white fuzz ball to sleep.

 

[Rushdoggie]

Two sleep on this roost and the 3rd gets down on the floor?
'Head room' is tight when roof is closed, surprised they don't use the middle roost,
tho the feeder and waterer is kind of in the way there.

Yep. Its odd. They all smoosh together on the one side and always choose the end where the door is.

I've been quietly opening the door and putting her on the perch now but I have no idea if she stays there when I leave.

Mostly who cares except she is kind of laying in her own poop...

 

[aart]

I would take out all but middle perch and move feed and water away from middle perch.
Also turn roost so it's wider side up.

More than a few of my birds sleep in the poop board under the roost, but I clean it everyday.

 

[Shepshill]

I have three Golden Comets that are about 8-months old. As young pullets, they always used the roost at night. One even hung out there for part of the day. Recently, I noticed that one was spending some nights in a nesting box. I thought she might be intimidated by one of the other two. Another night, at least two spent the night on the floor. I have two chickens in another coop, about a year older than these three. The two go in to roost at the first hint that it is growing dark. The three stay out in their run a lot later. I am starting to think that they go into their coop too late to see the roosting bar some nights. Other nights; they are all perched as they should be.