flight attendant help

[JMBern]

We have an electronic pop door and the batteries died so all our settings were off.. Hubs went to let them out in the morning and noticed that many of them flew out the door and into the screen wall at the end of the ladder... I'm not sure if this happened because they were cooped up a bit longer than usual or because this is just how they roll. There are a lot of feathers loose (I just thought it was from them growing.)
Is it normal for them to fly in the coop and smack into the walls?

 

[3KillerBs]

Mine fly down instead of walking down the ramp as often as not. One day one of them caught some unexpected lift and landed on the outside of the 48" fence.

Hopefully they'll learn that the wire is there and not fly so far.

 

[RainbowHen]

We have an electronic pop door and the batteries died so all our settings were off.. Hubs went to let them out in the morning and noticed that many of them flew out the door and into the screen wall at the end of the ladder... I'm not sure if this happened because they were cooped up a bit longer than usual or because this is just how they roll. There are a lot of feathers loose (I just thought it was from them growing.)
Is it normal for them to fly in the coop and smack into the walls?
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Yep. Mine are 6 weeks and do the same thing!

 

[bhp]

I call it “Learning the Boundaries”.

Very nice coop, by the way.

 

[rosemarythyme]

If the roost doesn't have enough landing space in front of it, yes they can smack into walls. I have just enough to avoid that but I've nearly had hens fly right into me off the roost in their hurry to get out in the morning, if the auto door doesn't work or has been disabled on purpose.

 

[ChickenFriends234]

Wow a nice coop you got there