Help with ideas for cluttering a run:

[Traffie Chickens]

Thank you everyone! I really wish I could make like a (portal) kind of thing, but the chicks are the same size as most of the older flock now. I really think the best option is to cage up the meanies, but the thing is, I just don’t have a big enough space to keep 3 birds separate from the rest. My run is 8x16 and I have an attached fence that goes around the coop for an outdoor space for while they get used to each other. (I'll put pics down below.) but I only open access it when I wake up, and then close it when it starts to get dark. I have been putting the juvies in with the older ones for the last couple days, but they just sit on a high roost in the run and are too scared to eat or drink.

 

[Krugerrand]

Thank you everyone! I really wish I could make like a (portal) kind of thing, but the chicks are the same size as most of the older flock now. I really think the best option is to cage up the meanies, but the thing is, I just don’t have a big enough space to keep 3 birds separate from the rest. My run is 8x16 and I have an attached fence that goes around the coop for an outdoor space for while they get used to each other. (I'll put pics down below.) but I only open access it when I wake up, and then close it when it starts to get dark. I have been putting the juvies in with the older ones for the last couple days, but they just sit on a high roost in the run and are too scared to eat or drink. View attachment 3855676

When integrating pullets, I found that they managed better at night time than at day time. So I used some fencing ... what you have pictured here is perfect, to divide the run in half. Setup their own food and water and let them share the run. At night time you have let them come back together.

I did get some night time troubles of the meanies blocking the roost from the newbies. I put up a piece of carboard to divide the roost in two. At first my 2 meanies each took a half of the roost. But, I'd shove one off and she'd eventually join the other meanie.

 

[Sally PB]

I like having things that chickens can get up on. This gives them more "places to be." I have a log that I put some "legs" on, and it's a favorite place to hang out on, and dust bathe under.

Also, the smaller birds can hop/jump higher than the full grown ones. When doing my last integration, some of the new girls got up on top of the shelter I have over/around one of their feed stations. The older hens couldn't do that.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I like having things that chickens can get up on. This gives them more "places to be." I have a log that I put some "legs" on, and it's a favorite place to hang out on, and dust bathe under.

Also, the smaller birds can hop/jump higher than the full grown ones. When doing my last integration, some of the new girls got up on top of the shelter I have over/around one of their feed stations. The older hens couldn't do that.

x2, this is so true. It's not that older hens can't get on things, they're often too lazy to do so. Every group of chicks I've had spend much of their days on various roosts or the jungle gym, and I'll often put a feeder or waterer up on top so they can eat/drink without being harassed.

 

[Traffie Chickens]

x2, this is so true. It's not that older hens can't get on things, they're often too lazy to do so. Every group of chicks I've had spend much of their days on various roosts or the jungle gym, and I'll often put a feeder or waterer up on top so they can eat/drink without being harassed.

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I have realized that! I have the chicks fenced brooder in the run that I have another food and water station on, and when a chicken goes after a young one, the young one will jump up on it, but the older hen is always too lazy to do the same.

 

[Suzz]

My chickens just got a new enclosed yard and here is a few clutter ideas I came up with an old ladder I sawed the top off of with 2 by 4s attached with bungee ball ties and a stump pulled from elsewhere they love them