Scottish chickens

[Amelia94]

We live in the Highlands and our daytime nighttime shifts from season to season. Now it's getting lighter i end up waking up earlier and earlier.

What does everyone else do? Because in the hight of summer it gets light at 4.30- 5am and doesn't get dark till midnight.

 

[BDutch]

We live in the Highlands and our daytime nighttime shifts from season to season. Now it's getting lighter i end up waking up earlier and earlier.

What does everyone else do? Because in the hight of summer it gets light at 4.30- 5am and doesn't get dark till midnight.

Where I live in the Netherlands its shifting too, just a bit less. I have a pop door that works with a light sensor . That way the chickens sleep safe and can go into the run around sunrise. It locks again before dark, about 40 minutes after sunset.

@kattabelly

 

[kattabelly]

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're asking.

I'm in Orkney. In my experience, chickens will use every bit of dusk they possibly can in the middle of winter. In summer they'll set their own timetable and get up after sunrise, and go off to roost hours before sunset.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I don't have nearly the extremes you do but I built my coop big enough that they can spend some time in there without issues. That way they can wait until I'm ready to let them out in the morning, even if it is after my breakfast. At night maybe automatic doors (which I don't like) or see what they do and go accordingly. You might be able to train them to go into the coop by feeding treats in the coop at bedtime to lure them in?