Too many roosts?

[HeyHo]

Chicken rookie here. So. I designed and built my coop thinking bigger is better. After some chicken math, I now have 6 pullets and fear that I have waayyy too many roosts. See below picture -- two levels of roosts, three upper, two lower. Nesting boxes on the left of the pic, clean-out door on the right. Coop is 4x8 feet with about 8 feet of vertical space. While the girls seem to like moving from roost to roost once they are up there, I think they generally have trouble getting up and down. (I had to put a step stool on the floor of the coop -- poor Rosie was sleeping in a pile of shavings on the corner.)

Should I pull out the top three roosts and just leave the bottom two? Side note: at about the same level of the top roosts is the a window that is left open, along with two louvers and a ridge vent (clearly, I read all the posts about ventilation; see above note about bigger=better). Perhaps it would be better for them to be far below all that air circulation once it gets colder?

Please advise.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Bigger is better but all those roosts might be making it harder for them to get up and down because they need diagonal space in front of the roost to be able to get down, and possibly they're colliding into bars on the way down?

If you pull out the top roosts, how much linear ft of roost are you left with? And how high off the floor are the lower roosts?

 

[HeyHo]

If you pull out the top roosts, how much linear ft of roost are you left with? And how high off the floor are the lower roosts?

Each lower roost is 4 feet long -- so eight feet total. They are about 3 feet off the coop floor.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I'd try taking out the top roosts for now then, and see how they do. You can always put them back in if it turns out you need them.

 

[HeyHo]

You're right, that's what we'll try. Thanks for the feedback. (And love your name rosemarythyme -- two of my girls' favorite herbs, plucking them right out of my pots.)