White leghorn chicks, not roosting

[AimsChickies]

I have some 2 weekish old white leghorn chicks that dont use their roost. Will it just take them time, or is there something I should do to try to get them to use it?

 

[purr]

well I'm no expert but at 2 wks they still need each other for warmth so they will huddle instead of roosting

 

[cmom]

I put a broom handle I cut off and put it 2" off the bottom of their brooder. They were getting on it at a week old. Now they are almost a month old and I put a 1"x2" board across one end about a foot off the floor of the nursery coop and they are on and off it. I made a mini run off the side. The little girls coop has a pop door to their run. I let them out during the day but shut them in at night as they are still small. I have a heat lamp in their coop. Some cuddle on their roost and some in the pine shaving on the floor under the roost where the lamp is.

 

[Attack Chicken]

When mine were little they didn't roost and they still don't roost now. They just sleep on 6 inches of straw every night and they like it.

 

[purr]

mine are 6 mths old now and I have a frizzle banty that refuses to sleep anywhere but on the floor.

 

[Barnyard]

I have silkie's that are 20+ weeks and they refuse to roost. At 2 weeks though, they are still a little young. None of mine went to the roost that early!

 

[LynneP]

When mine were 2 weeks old I gave them scraps of 2x4's and 4x 4's on the brooder bedding and they loved to roost on those. Non-wolmanized of course. It takes a long time before roosting behavior is established and it seems linked to pecking order so don't worry, they get to it!