LyleVertigo
Chirping
- May 28, 2025
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It's been about 3/4th of a year since I started keeping chickens.
One thing that always boggled me is that they never want to sleep in their coops.
I had to place a bench in their run because they were all climbing on top of one another to sleep on the gravity feeder than to go in the coop to sleep.
Since they started laying eggs 2 hens showed broody behavior, but every time night falls they leave the eggs to sleep with the others on the bench than to stay on them. Next morning they would go back up in the coop with eggs and sit on them.
I even tried to add red lights in one that lights up at night to encourage them to go in but it didn't make a difference.
For christmas, my brother gave me a silkie pullet. It slept alone in a coop while the others didn't trust it, but after they accepted it the pullet stopped sleeping in the coop and now sleeps with the others on the bench. They even preferred to sleep in the freezing cold than to go in the warm coop! I don't get these birds.
One thing that always boggled me is that they never want to sleep in their coops.
I had to place a bench in their run because they were all climbing on top of one another to sleep on the gravity feeder than to go in the coop to sleep.
Since they started laying eggs 2 hens showed broody behavior, but every time night falls they leave the eggs to sleep with the others on the bench than to stay on them. Next morning they would go back up in the coop with eggs and sit on them.
I even tried to add red lights in one that lights up at night to encourage them to go in but it didn't make a difference.
For christmas, my brother gave me a silkie pullet. It slept alone in a coop while the others didn't trust it, but after they accepted it the pullet stopped sleeping in the coop and now sleeps with the others on the bench. They even preferred to sleep in the freezing cold than to go in the warm coop! I don't get these birds.
