Hello everyone, Sam here.
I have around 45 or so chickens as to date, with about six or seven broody hens sitting maybe 20 more. Now, we had kept most our chickens in two coops, one big another small, and our houses storage unit. Of course, not liking how it kept getting dirty in there, we made an add-on to the big coop. It was basically like our others, one door for us to go in and them to come out, three or four different sized roost, and about four nest boxes. Now I remember that I heard somewhere that if you lock your chickens up in their coop for three days and nights, they will think of it as home. I had done this when we made our other two and it worked great, they go in at night every night. So we put the 19 or so chickens into the new coop, and locked them up with food and water for three days. We let them out this morning, same time we did the others, and they went about the day like they normally would have. But when night came, everyone else went in, but any of the chickens in the new coop.* We ended up having to catch them and put them in there again. Once they were in, they got on the roosts at stayed, but we could never get them to go in themselves.
*They went to the door where their old home was. But it was closed so they couldn't get in and they just waited by it.
Long story short, sorry, is there any way to get our chickens to go into their coop at night, without having to go through the painstaking process of catching them all? Any idea is welcome.
Thank you.
Sam
I have around 45 or so chickens as to date, with about six or seven broody hens sitting maybe 20 more. Now, we had kept most our chickens in two coops, one big another small, and our houses storage unit. Of course, not liking how it kept getting dirty in there, we made an add-on to the big coop. It was basically like our others, one door for us to go in and them to come out, three or four different sized roost, and about four nest boxes. Now I remember that I heard somewhere that if you lock your chickens up in their coop for three days and nights, they will think of it as home. I had done this when we made our other two and it worked great, they go in at night every night. So we put the 19 or so chickens into the new coop, and locked them up with food and water for three days. We let them out this morning, same time we did the others, and they went about the day like they normally would have. But when night came, everyone else went in, but any of the chickens in the new coop.* We ended up having to catch them and put them in there again. Once they were in, they got on the roosts at stayed, but we could never get them to go in themselves.
*They went to the door where their old home was. But it was closed so they couldn't get in and they just waited by it.
Long story short, sorry, is there any way to get our chickens to go into their coop at night, without having to go through the painstaking process of catching them all? Any idea is welcome.
Thank you.
Sam
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