Should I just admit defeat?

[CHlCKEN]

The Dollar Tree has little solar lights. They even have ones that use 2 aa batteries for Halloween. Both will be $1.00 each.
I think you better start your Chicken "Wish list" for the holidays. Lol
Try your best to keep everyone safe. Get a trap and trap those raccoons as as possible. You do get ice cold freezing rain in TN.
Congratulations on your new Flock

Thanks sounds like a plan! My chickens will certainly enjoy their new lights, until a plan is set in stone for a larger coop upgrade. My chicken wish list grows every time I look at the the TSC and Amazon BYC giveaway! Ugh I get so many ideas! It’s been a wet week thanks to all that hurricane weather and as it hasn’t lightened up (though it filled our pond finally- I’m happy even if it is dirt brown) the ground is a muddy mess. The girls have a rain cover and watch the outside world from under their plastic shield (obviously not gonna help with angled rain falls) and big natural rain cover of a tree. Rain is cold but not very cold, ive Kept chickens for a while now but yet I have never had a frostbite issue so let’s hope the babies will help keep our streak and GO IN THE COOP before the cold rain, snow (rain in a more pleasant form, it just doesn’t stick) and the natural temperatures

 

[Jnamram]

We just built a bigger hen house so we went through the process of moving our flock each evening into the new coop from the old coop. What ultimately worked is I put a blue tarp over the old hen house close to sunset so they couldn’t go into the old hen house. After 1 week of transporting by hand at sunset and 3 days using the tarp and waiting to watch them go into the new hen house at sunset, they began going into the new coop on their own.

 

[Vickischics]

We just built a bigger hen house so we went through the process of moving our flock each evening into the new coop from the old coop. What ultimately worked is I put a blue tarp over the old hen house close to sunset so they couldn’t go into the old hen house. After 1 week of transporting by hand at sunset and 3 days using the tarp and waiting to watch them go into the new hen house at sunset, they began going into the new coop on their own.

Yay!

 

[maghrane]

For the past month and a half I have been moving my chicks from their favorite branch roost into the hen house, every night without missing a night. The refuse to go in the hen house by themselves, should I just admitwise they do it themselves - the treats make it easy ! defeat? What can I do to get them in the hen house?

I put sunflowers seeds in he hen house when i need to get the girls locked up early other

 

[Lynn Woehrle]

Maybe throw down some food they love before it gets dark and they will go in to eat. An inside light is a good idea.

 

[JacquesLeblanc]

For the past month and a half I have been moving my chicks from their favorite branch roost into the hen house, every night without missing a night. The refuse to go in the hen house by themselves, should I just admit defeat? What can I do to get them in the hen house?

 

[JacquesLeblanc]

I use mealworms to lure them into the coop.

 

[margaretbyrd]

How old are they? Once I put my older feathered birds into a pen the learn the routine quickly. The longest ever was a week the shortest was one time showing them the roost and locking them up. I have a large yard and a wooden house on legs about 4'x8' with nest boxes at one end and the roosts at an angle down the middle. It gives them three roost bars about 5-6 feet long.

 

[Berniejane]

For the past month and a half I have been moving my chicks from their favorite branch roost into the hen house, every night without missing a night. The refuse to go in the hen house by themselves, should I just admit defeat? What can I do to get them in the hen house?
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Put a light in the coop. They'll go in when it's dark.

 

[Foxinthehenhouse]

Maybe try to lure them in the coop with a tasty treat. Maybe sprinkle some on the plank that leads into the coop and then have some in the coop.
might change their mind about the coop.