BonnieBlue
Songster
- Apr 20, 2022
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This may be a stupid question, and is out of sheer curiosity. (I'm a chicken noob, and their behavior fascinates me.)
I have 5 pullets, 11 weeks old today. Their two roosting bars are a little over 4 feet long. When I peek in at them at night after they have gone in to get settled on their roosts, all 5 are taking up only maybe a little over a third of the top roosting bar. I literally have to count their feet to see if they are all there. They are so close to each other, it is just one big squish of feathers.
Is this normal? Even before it started cooling down into the 70's at night, they were roosting on top of each other. Do they start spacing out as they get older? It doesn't worry me, but I was surprised to see that they still just want to be so close to each other, and not have more "personal space".
I have 5 pullets, 11 weeks old today. Their two roosting bars are a little over 4 feet long. When I peek in at them at night after they have gone in to get settled on their roosts, all 5 are taking up only maybe a little over a third of the top roosting bar. I literally have to count their feet to see if they are all there. They are so close to each other, it is just one big squish of feathers.
Is this normal? Even before it started cooling down into the 70's at night, they were roosting on top of each other. Do they start spacing out as they get older? It doesn't worry me, but I was surprised to see that they still just want to be so close to each other, and not have more "personal space".