Baker1181
Chirping
I have a larger coop with 5 nesting boxes and 2 roosting bars the entire length of the coop and an attached run that is 8x16 feet. I have 8 hens. Two nights ago, I woke up at 330 am to go to work and one chicken was in the run all by itself laying on the ground. I watched all 8 go in about 730pm that night. I do have a large run roosting bar too. Last night I watched all of them start poking around and ready to go in about 715-730. All 8 birds were in the first two nesting boxes and snuggled up together out on the floor right at the small coop door. I went out there this morning to find 7 birds laying down in the dirt of the run and 1 bird was roosted properly. I checked the roost bars with a light to see if I could see any bugs or anything and checked around and didn’t see anything. Are they just dumb or adjusting to changes as these specific 8 were picked up not long ago. They are just now 4 months old. When I picked them up the area the person had them in when I showed up in the Morning there was no coop. It was just a small outdoor run. I didn’t question it, but maybe they got used to sleeping on the ground and cuddling?? The birds appear to be healthy, they don’t have missing feathers they are not dirty or anything.