How to tell which hens are laying?

[SussexInSeattle]

Man, theres always trouble makers! I only ever had one that had that bad habit and she always seemed to choose the stormy nights to do it. If you get a push broom you can get them down and carry them to the barn on the bristle end of the broom.

If it were me, I would watch them and sell the offender on craigslist. Usually the SSH is supposedly a flighty bird but look for which one flies up first. so the options are, you sell the one you observe flying up there first, or you let them stay up there and if a raccoon or possum finds them, they are eaten or you sell both of them. Or you sit under the tree on a garden chair at sundown with a broom and scare them away from that tree by smacking the low branches with the broom and tell them "go to bed!" and you can herd them towards the coop with the broom held out to the side like an extension of your outstretched arm.

 

[NellaBean]

I've had some hens decide the best place to sleep is somewhere other than the coop. it may take a few nights in a row, but as long as I removed them and put them in the coop every night, they all eventually decided to just go in the coop instead. I did have a half blind chicken who was consistently flying up and sleeping on top of the coop. I realized she was getting picked on by the others, so afraid to go in the coop at night. I made her her own little roost area under the table and she was fine...and would even go in early to make sure she got settled in before the crazy girls came in. Now she roosts with the others in the coop like normal.