Hen roosts alone

[leighks]

Does anyone have a hen that prefers to roost away from the others all alone? My barred rock Willow is the low hen in the pecking order. The other 4 hens and rooster all sleep on the roost in front of a window, but over the winter Willow started roosting alone on a roost at the back of the coop. Since it was a very cold winter I would move her next to the others after dark every night. Now that spring is here, I wonder if I should keep moving her with the others each night, or leave her on her own?
I’m sure she got sick of being pecked off the roost each night and just decided to go where no one bothers her, but it seems strange for a flock animal to sleep alone by choice.
They are all about a year old and have been together since they were a few days old. This has been going on for at least 4 months. I don’t mind moving her each night but I don’t want to bother her if she’s happy that way.
She does get a little picked on by the other girls, but nothing excessive. She’s the roosters favorite, but he doesn’t seem upset when she’s on the back roost by herself.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

I have a hen who prefers being alone.She forages alone,and I can’t her by herself a lot.Probabaly not a good idea for her considering she goes places no one else’s goes,but manages to come home alive all the time.Shes pretty solo solo since she was a chick and she isn’t even that low in the order.

 

[leighks]

I have a hen who prefers being alone.She forages alone,and I can’t her by herself a lot.Probabaly not a good idea for her considering she goes places no one else’s goes,but manages to come home alive all the time.Shes pretty solo solo since she was a chick and she isn’t even that low in the order.

Does she sleep alone too?

 

[TheTwoRoos]

No,at night she is typically with the others,and if they are stuck in the run she roosts with the others,but foraging wise she’s alone quite often.

 

[RWise]

2 of my older girls have started roosting alone, right after I introduced a new rooster. Once they accept him, they will go back,, I hope. There is plenty of room for them, the weather is ok, I am not worried about it.