Not using roosting bars

[Three Stents]

I picked up 4 pullets yesterday, they are 3-4 months old. They are huddling and sleeping on the sand covered floor. Seems to be like sleeping in a cold bed to me. Should I remove sand and put down pine shavings, just put the shavings on top of the sand or leave it the way it is?

 

[ChickQueen77]

I have just shavings in my coop and when I get new chickens they will sleep in the corner of the coop all snuggled together but shavings work good enough for me without other types of bedding

 

[InsideOut59]

My chickens didn't know how to roost in the beginning either - they huddled on the floor in a feathered heap! No adult birds to train them...they didn't know what they were supposed to do.

So, I went into the coop right after dark for a couple of nights, picked them up and placed them on the roosts. It only took about two or three times of doing this, then they figured it out.

Shari