Help 19 week chickens won't go into coop

[marcy0718]

That's what I was thinking the enclosure is 15'x15' I am not allowed to have them free range and only 4 no roos.the coop itself is 6' long 41/2'wide 5' high but on 4x4 so maybe higher. It has been so so is hot here I have 8 ft sunflowers planted around half for shade a sun sail and it is smoked corrugated roof they r very comfortable and love to be held and interact with people they r pretty spoiled if I go in there before dark they will Go in if I make them just worried cause they look well the black sex links look like the r gonna lay soon red waddles and combs.the Brahma mix is much smaller then the others can't tell from that pic.

 

[drumstick diva]

I think they are too hot inside and want to sleep under the stars.

 

[marcy0718]

I think so too drumstick diva lol

 

[marcy0718]

Just took that pic bsl way bigger

 

[junebuggena]

That's what I was thinking the enclosure is 15'x15' I am not allowed to have them free range and only 4 no roos.the coop itself is 6' long 41/2'wide 5' high but on 4x4 so maybe higher. It has been so so is hot here I have 8 ft sunflowers planted around half for shade a sun sail and it is smoked corrugated roof they r very comfortable and love to be held and interact with people they r pretty spoiled

if I go in there before dark they will Go in if I make them just worried cause they look well the black sex links look like the r gonna lay soon red waddles and combs.the Brahma mix is much smaller then the others can't tell from that pic.

Is that the measurements for the whole prefab or just the shelter part? Only the enclosed shelter, where the nest boxes and roosts are counts as 'coop' space. And nest boxes should not be included in that measurement. The open air portion is considered a run space.

 

[marcy0718]

Her wattles and comb are very red last couple days does this mean she will lay soon??

 

[marcy0718]

 

[marcy0718]

 

[marcy0718]

Thanks u all for input I'm just worried about them laying will they only lay in daytime? If so they go in nesting box area in the day

 

[bobbi-j]

They will only lay in the daytime. If you can put a fake egg, golf ball, or some other type of egg-shaped, egg-sized thing in the nest (a rock will do, my great aunt used to use the old-fashioned porcelain doorknobs) in the nests, it would give them an idea where to lay. The nice thing is, with your enclosure if they don't lay in the nests, it still won't be too hard to find the eggs.

For what it's worth, I also think they are just plain too hot in the coop at night.