How to get new flock to use the coop instead of the tractor.

[BigRedRoo]

So I incubated 22 chickens and raised them to 6 weeks when they were put into a trator and moved around the yard. At 8 weeks I parked the tractor beside the chicken pen, cut a whole in the fence of the tractor and the pen and allowed them to mingle. now theyv been mingling for 2 weeks and still every night the new girls go to the tractor and the old girls go to the coop.
I need all these girls and boys to go to the coop at night so I can use the tractor for the next group of birds.
Any sugestions on how to get the new (10 week old) chickens to go into the hen house and start to sleep in their so I can start on the next group?

 

[Den in Penn]

I keep hoping mine would understand that the coop was to be thier home when they are big enough. Let them mingle sometimes for weeks, but they still don't move into the coop. End up haveing to move them into the coop at night and removing the tractor so they can't see it, so they have to adopt the coop.

 

[rc4u]

put a big brown rag on the end of a 6 or 8 foot pole and wave it behind them at nite to get them into the coop ...they will think its a hawk or owl and want security....

 

[bobbi-j]

Do you have a run attached to that coop? If you do, that would be your best bet. Lock them in the coop/run for a few days, a week, whatever, move the tractor away and that should help acclimate them to the coop. If you don't have a run, I don't know what's the best answer.