Newbie Roosting question

[2DogsFarm]

I just got my flock - five 9wk old pullets.
I brought them home Saturday 5/30.

The first 2 nights I had them home they all roosted where I intended - on some branches set in the coop.

One branch is set at angle so they can walk up or roost low - from about 2" to 2' off the ground. The 2nd branch is set at 2' and is accessible if they walk up branch #1 or I have seen them fly up to #2.

Starting with night #3, 4 of the 5 are roosting on a partition set at right angles to the roost branches - it is made of narrow wood - maybe 1X2 and they are perching on the narrowest side.
I find them there in the morning and at night when I do a last "bedcheck".
I can tell from the poopage they spent the night on the narrow "roost".

Should I move them from this perch back to the roost or just let them be?
#5 - my littlest hen, a Houdan - roosts in the corner made where the 2 branches meet at the coop wall.

Y'all can expect me to be posting lots of nonsensical questions as these are my first chickens and my only experience with any bird before this was the parakeets I had as a little girl

 

[highcountrychickens]

As long as they are inside and safe from predators, they should be alright. It's funny how they vary from flock to flock. My hens last year couldn't get high enough to roost - the 7 Jersey Giants I have now are completely happy on the perch 8" off of the floor, and some roost in a small access door jam with their faces in the grate of a small ventilation fan.
As long as they're safe, I just chuckle. Someone else here may have more wisdom about it.

Have fun and Congratulations!!!!

 

[lisahaschickens]

chickens are notorious for perching on anything and everything they can find, and most definitely where you don't intend! I am a relative newbie too (four months into my first flock) and I have a coop full of perches as many varying heights... well, some use them, and some somehow get all the way up into the rafters about 7 feet up and roost up there. I still don't really know how they even get up there! Mine also perch on a window sill and in front of the nesting boxes and anywhere else there might be a ledge. I read to make the roofs of my nesting boxes at a steep angle or they would perch there too and poop all over the boxes!

Anyway... point is - they're fine! They'll find a happy place to sleep. Your job is just to make sure they're safe and happy. If you find they are roosting somewhere you don't want, then you should try to block that perch somehow. Otherwise, all is well