corriemartin
Songster
Hey folks, this is a real question, and I'm kindof embarrassed about it, but how do you get your chickens to go inside at night? My chickens always run over to me whenever I show up, so what I've been doing is going INTO their chicken house, with a cup of scratch, and sit down in the back and most of them come right after me. I have a string attached to the door so I can shut it behind them, because if I don't, they'll go back out when I get up to go out and shut the door. The problem is that two or three or sometimes four of them sometimes take a long time to come in. And some of them will go back out again once they've had their little treat, so I end up opening and shutting the door (via the string) a gazillion times, and sometimes it takes a half an hour for them all to come in (there are 17 of them), and it's all quite ridiculous. I'd like to just have them go in by themselves, and shut the door after them. How can I make that happen????
The few times I haven't gone to put them in until well into dusk, they were all already in, and jostling for prime roosting space, but when they saw me coming, they all ran out again
The few times I haven't gone to put them in until well into dusk, they were all already in, and jostling for prime roosting space, but when they saw me coming, they all ran out again
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