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Do you think that having wider roosts would help minimize this? My roosts are all 2 x 4's with the wide side horizontal or 4 x 4's. My chicks don't go into a coop with roosts until they are over 10 weeks old. Even after that, a large number of them choose to roost on the floor and I just let them. Is a bent keel different than a crooked keel? We saw some more crooked keels in the cockerels that we processed yesterday. It seemed like there were fewer of them, though. I'll have to examine all the ones that I came home with before putting them in the freezer.A couple of wees ago a person on one of the Heritage threads posted about an old time breeder that gave them a tip.
Remove the roosts of show quality large fowl and have them sleep on the floor. He said that roosts will bend their keels!