Early to bed?

[Faith Hope]

What time do your chickens go to bed?

My chickens have a large pen, but I also let them free range on my property in the afternoon/evenings. They usually are all back in the coop ready to roost by 6:30 or 7 at the very latest even now when it is not getting dark till 8 or 8:30! Do your chickens go to bed that early?

 

[Fritatta]

I think it is the cutest thing that my mom hen takes her 3 week old brood into the coop 2-3 hours before the big girls go in.

Momma and chicks go in about 6pm est and others are in by 8:30. depends on the sun!

 

[andalusn]

Here it's the old hens and the rooster that head back to the coop by 4:00 pm .. of course they are up by 5:30 am usually

Now, the younger chicks that the broodies raise are inclined to roam the barn like a pack of leather clad hoodlums and go to bed just before dark like any adolescent trying to stay out past curfew.

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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Mine have been packing it in by 7:30-8:00 at night. I guess all that fresh air and sunshine is tiring!

 

[PHILMAN]

Mine are in bed by 8:30 latest .

 

[Faith Hope]

My adult go in the earliest (like 2+ hours before dark). I think maybe they are trying to get the favorite spots on the roost! They keep going in earlier and earlier.

Crazy chickens

 

[Eggcessive]

My 7 week old chicks have been out in their coop for 2 weeks and in the run for about 9 days. They are all outside at 7 AM, but 1/2 of them want to stay out in the coop till dark--9PM here. I usually have to round up the stragglers, but the other half already have the top spots on the roost. They have 4 levels and everyone is on level 4 , so the late-comers have to go to the lower levels.

 

[BigBird99]

This time of year it's about 8:45 without fail. Though the dominant buff orpingtons have to 'make' a younger black australorp go to bed almost without fail every night.

 

[eggsontoast]

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[kathyp3]

Hi its coming into winter down under and the girls put themselves to bed by 5pm when the sun has gone down but not quite dark.
We have a chook cam so if they have gone in I quickly turn on the tv and watch the girls settle down and go to sleep.
Don't you just love chickens!!!! I do.