I created havoc @ roosting.
I wanted to move Ceres but I didn't want her in the little coop on her own. Ideally I would have moved everyone after dark but my set up isn't ideal for night manouvres so I did the next best thing; I moved those I wanted to move right on roosting when I still had enough light to see & they didn't have time to go completely tropo. Just the same you'd have thought I'd asked them to strip naked & dance on the bar top!
I moved my Wyandotte bantams 1st, fairly sure they'd go ballistic. And they did. You'd think they were being murdered. I'd moved the spare eggs & made sure the bedding was really deep then I grabbed Ceres & her eggs & moved her holusbolus onto her new nest. While I was checking those left behind the shrieking from the little coop reached a thunderous cresendo. All 3 chickens were running round the little coop screaming like banshees & cursing me to Annwn & back. I sighed hoping I hadn't inadvertently broken Ceres. My timing was pretty good because all 3 girls realised they were about to lose the light & headed reluctantly into the coop. Alpia didn't want to go & hopped onto the roost to sulk when I dropped the pop door. Wrold, as I had hoped, spotted the 2 spare eggs & happily settled over them & after some fussing Ceres got back on hers.
I'm sure this isn't optimum but having thought carefully about it I decided the big coop wasn't somewhere I wanted chicks. It's just not safe enough, waay too open & quite difficult to acces so hard for a new mum to shepherd chicks out & about. Much easier to do it all from the small coop. This meant I had to choose when to move Ceres @ least. I decided sooner rather than later. If she broke then I'd know in time to pull out of eggs. However chickens being social beings I knew Ceres would be happier if others were in the small coop with her. I chose Wrold & Alpia in the hopes 1 @ least would go broody with her & be sitting for @ least a week before the eggs arrived. As hoped Wrold chose the spare eggs over the roost. Ceres, as the junior hen, took the rejected eggs.
I will know how we're going in the morning but then we will have the rest of the flock squwarking because they can't get into the little coop to lay.
It could all be so simple if the silly girls would just do what I wanted.
Anyway, here's a roosting of frizzles. Everyone loves to cuddle a frizzle when they're going to sleep.
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