Show me your roosts please

[Barred Rocker]

I used some walnut and locust limbs that are 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Good size, textured for grip and rounded for their feet.

 

[PunkinPeep]

With the tilted ladder style roosts, it seems like they would end up pooping ON each other. Do you have problems with that?

 

[NonnasBabies]

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No, not at all!!

Works pretty good!!

Missi

 

[aka Rachel]

My coop has only been in use for about a week now

But so far its working great. They use the roost just like they should, and I have linoleum down under the roost for a poop board. Takes seconds to scrape it off, with only 1 roo, 1 hen and 3 chicks.

 

[Barred Rocker]

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They all face forward when they roost, at least I've never seen any turned around, so they easily miss the others when they gotta go. It makes for a lot of roosting area but of course everybody wants the top spot, that's when the pecking order kicks in.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Mine face both directions so I separate the roosts by a couple of feet. These roosts are just a couple of saplings I had to cut down anyway.

All but about 5 of them squeeze onto the top one though. It's hard to tell but these limbs are a lot sturdier than the pic shows (rope is there just in case the nails come loose on the skinnier end of that branch).