Learning to roost

[clickncluck]

When will my chicks learn to roost and stop sleeping in a pig pile getting all poopy? THey are 7 1/2 weeks now and have had exposure to a roost since day 5-6. They definitely stand on it during the day?

 

[Garrison]

Do you have a light on them? I raised my light over the roost and they started using it. Probably trying to stay warm.

 

[clickncluck]

No light. They are outside now. But they live in Hawaii. So generally 75 is as cold as it gets right now.

 

[SheilaTheBrave]

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aHA! Maybe that's what mine are trying to learn how to do! When they go into the coop for the night they spent a good 30 minutes pushing and shoving one another around all 4 trying to fit on the same 6" section of the 4 foot long roost. They fall off, sqawk at one another, wings flap and they get all loud....then they settle down and start it all over again!

 

[bkwurth]

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I have always wanted to come to Hawaii. You just made me want to be there even worse!

 

[calliecutiepie]

None of mine will roost either but what they will do is all 5 sit on the lip I placed at the door of the coop to keep the shaving from falling out and watch the night world go by. They're 6 weeks old, It's too cute. My husband thinks he figured out why they do this. We have an electric pole with a light on it and they can see out into the backyard. Going to have to get a picture to show you.