Chicken wrangling!

[BackyardinWales]

Is there a skill to catching your teenagers to put them to bed? Besides the chase! The older girls are grain oriented, the babies too, but the teenagers enjoy the freedom when the big girls have gone to bed lol. Chasing teenagers is tiring, though to his credit, tonight it wasn't the young cockerel, it was the girls lol.

 

[RadEggs]

Treats when they go in the coop, scold them when they dont. It works for mine most of the time, but when I do need to wrangle them I walk slowly behind them in the direction of the coop.

 

[aart]

Are you trying to get them into the coop before dark?
Are there enough windows in the coop so it is fairly light in there so they can see to go to roost?
I've used a battery operated puck light in the coop to draw them in, turn it on and houre before full dark, then turn it off when you lock up.

 

[MountainWoman73]

I use canned corn when I need to move my chickens back inside their fence. It's a very special treat and I only throw one kernel at a time until they follow. As far as teenagers needing to be stuffed in the coop at night, that's a phase all mine go through. Sometimes it's easiest to let them roost wherever they choose (hiding underneath the coop usually for mine) and then go out in the dark and move them inside. I usually have to do this 3 or 4 nights in a row, and then they figure out how to go in.