TerriChad2020
Chirping
- Jul 13, 2022
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So I've got a question for some of y'all that are a little more experienced as chicken parents. I had gotten 3 gold laced sebright bantam hens and 3 youth chickens last spring. I found 2 of my youth chickens were roosters and had found them a new home. I can and have visited them and they are being well cared for. My youth hen is such a sweet girl. I hadn't put all the girls in the coop immediately when we got them, so I have 2 bantams that I've never been able to get in at night, 1 bantam that after putting her in a couple nights started going in on her own every night. Then my other chicken who had always gone in started having me pick her up and put her in every night. She's been ok with this until recently. She has been laying eggs since September and just recently the bantams have all started laying. I have one that has laid her eggs in the cat shelter and every couple days they have changed a nesting box to lay in... three one bantam that goes on on her own sleeps in one of the nesting boxes. Could this be why my other been is not wanting to go in the coop with her anymore? The coop is clean and when they are out foraging they always return to the pen between 4 &5 everyday. I'm also thinking that maybe they all think the pen is their coop. & the coop is only for laying eggs. By 5pm they are all on top the coop except for the one who sleeps inside on her own. I go in once the sun has gone down and put the other chicken inside and close the coop up. Last night she was not happy about it and today she really was unhappy about it but I can see she is already settling down as I'm closing the door. I have let her stay out a couple of really nice nights. The pen is partially covered from the elements so where they stay on the roof of the coop they are covered. Should I just let them stay out? The 2 bantams have been all along. Oh and the pen is completely safe from any predators it's like fort knox in their pen.