Chicken education

[Poupoulles]

I have a five month old flock of mixed hens with three roosters. Unlike my first batch, I dont really "hang out" with these chickens as much so they are not as friendly. I have to catch them for inspection as opposed to my older chickens who climb into my lap.
My coop has a front door and a back door and rotating yards enclosed by moveable electric netting. its on a hill so the back door is high off the ground and has a ramp. I recently switched the yards for the first time letting them in and out the back door at dawn and dusk.
In my flock there are three Hamburgs and two Buff Rocks that are not exactly MIT grads. All the chickens but one have adjusted to the new back door. The one is a hamburg and she is no bigger then a pigeon. What she does is worm her way around to the front of the building, through the front door and then just lays by the netting window of the coop, looking sad. No amount of carrying her around to the back ramp has helped. I have stopped up the holes that allowed her to sneak to the front. What she does now is force her way THROUGH the electric fence gaps (she is just small enough) to get to the front where we have to pick her up and put her inside.
Why is this chicken so "special"? What can I do? Even the other non-MIT grad chickens EVENTUALLY figured out that the ramp led to the back door. The rooster who seems to be in charge of this group stands in the back door clucking at them to come up and eventually they do- all except this one...
She is lovely and sooooo cute but getting shocked every night, not to mentioned snatched up by a grumbling farmer and stuffed through the door cant be good for her...
How to I teach this chicken to use the door?

 

[Judy]

Maybe she's not stupid, just stubborn.

Is she perhaps bonded with a chicken in the coop she keeps returning to?

Only motivation I know of that works is bribery with food. A bit of fruit or chopped tomato might do it, or a bit of any sort of meat or fish.

 

[briana1975]

My silkies were like that when I started letting them out into the chicken run at about 6 weeks. I chased them around the coop so I could put them out the chicken door to the ramp. After about 3 days of this and a feeling that I looked like an idiot chasing these silkies in circles in the coop, I gave up. It took almost 2 more weeks before they started to go out every day on there own.

 

[Zuesdude]

Thank of them as childern, dose your child away do what you want them to do. Also sounds like she lonely in a flock of birds, is she on the bottom of the peeking list. Good luck with her!