Roost in run?

[Kaneke]

as a newbie I was fascinated to watch the newly-hatched fluffy butts as the banty hen raised them (free range)

those chicks walked and scrambled and flapped their way up to the tallest "fallen" branches they could, as soon as they could, and seemed most content to sit on the pruned-off branches of the kukui tree, when they weren't actively digging and scratching around the yard

even after they could fly up to the level of the hammock in the yard, they preferred to perch on these big branches, maybe three or four feet off the ground

which leads me to believe, that your chickens will love to have a perch/roost in their run

C

 

[justusnak]

Because of the snow and ice...then the mud....I put a roost in the run for the BO. NO Nails or screws were hurt in doing this.

I used the Wisteria vines as "ropes" and tied them together. The ladder is for FrizzFrizz. She likes to sit up there with the big girls.

 

[Corey NC]

I have a couple

This is the old one that used to be in the coop before we built the new roosts.

It's kind of hard to see in this pic but it is just two large branches pushed through the fence in the far right corner

This one is free-standing in the run the chooks love to hang out under it during the summers I'm sorry I don't have better pics of it

 

[Churkenduse]

I have a long branch, if you can see it, there is a old low ladder they sit on, but somehow they never soil it I think they leave it for me to sit on when I play with them. And on the other side I have an old brass headboard rammed in the ground they like to hang out on that.

A roost is a good place for them to show they are top chicken and to get their feet dry in the wet weather.

I think it is an essential part of their little world.