Parallel roosts or ladder roost? What's best?

[Eden83_haaretz]

So I was wondering which is best? Putting them all at the same level... Could it help reduce bullying when they go in for the night? Of course considering that they have enough space for each individual.

We have about 30 individuals an they free range all day long, then they go in the coop at night but we have one post that is lower than the others and they rarely ever want to use it. They always "fight" for the taller ones.
Also thinking of making a run because we have problems with the girls making nests wherever they please and not using the ones we leave for them. Any recommendation so they will not be stressed out when we do confine them to a "smaller" space?

 

[aart]

Could it help reduce bullying when they go in for the night?

It could.
I have single level roosts over poop boards, they still bicker a bit.
I prefer it so I can reach all the birds easily to examine them off the roost after dark.

How big is your coop in feet by feet or meters by meters?
Dimension and pics would help immensely here.

 

[Eden83_haaretz]

It could.
I have single level roosts over poop boards, they still bicker a bit.
I prefer it so I can reach all the birds easily to examine them off the roost after dark.

How big is your coop in feet by feet or meters by meters?
Dimension and pics would help immensely here.

In meters it's 6.5mts * 4mts. But it's kind of provisional, it's supposed to be a storage room, it has a cement platform and in all honesty we were thinking of making a new coop for the chickens and roosters with a run and divisions for the adults, another for cockrels and pullets, and another division for the chickens raising chicks; doing the deep litter method (just not sure if it'd be best to leave a dirt floor or put a cement floor beneath the deep mulch.

 

[Raptor Chicken]

I only have 6 hens but I did this in my coop and run. Granted its only been about a week and a half it seems to be working just fine.

 

[WI chickens]

I have 6 roosts in a ladder formation starting about 18" above the floor and up to 4' or so. I do it that way because chickens seem to prefer to roost high and it's easier for them to get up and down with a ladder. They settle in for the night on the top roost or sometimes the top two.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I currently have laddered roosts but am reconsidering doing them at the same height, as everyone wants to be on the top roost so I end up with 9 birds shoulder-to-shoulder on 5 1/2' of roost, and 1 bird on another 5 1/2'.