New chicken tender, and have a question…
My fluffy butt babies moved in to their coop at 7 weeks old. For the first couple nights they kept bunching up in the lay boxes for the night. I decide to block those off with a sheet of plywood for now as I didn’t want them to confuse those for where they should be sleeping. I figured they would figure it out about the roost as I had put mini roosts in the brooder early and they used those fine. Two weeks later they are still bunching up on the floor of the coop and not using the roosts. Should I not worry and they will eventually figure it out or should I be concerned, does that mean that they are cold and bunching up for warmth or do they just prefer to sleep this way? I do see them roosting in there during the day so I know that they can all get up on them. After about the third or fourth night out there they put themselves in the coop so all I have to do is go out and close their door.
My fluffy butt babies moved in to their coop at 7 weeks old. For the first couple nights they kept bunching up in the lay boxes for the night. I decide to block those off with a sheet of plywood for now as I didn’t want them to confuse those for where they should be sleeping. I figured they would figure it out about the roost as I had put mini roosts in the brooder early and they used those fine. Two weeks later they are still bunching up on the floor of the coop and not using the roosts. Should I not worry and they will eventually figure it out or should I be concerned, does that mean that they are cold and bunching up for warmth or do they just prefer to sleep this way? I do see them roosting in there during the day so I know that they can all get up on them. After about the third or fourth night out there they put themselves in the coop so all I have to do is go out and close their door.
