So I'm constantly reading here about how the best way to introduce new birds to an established coop is to put them in there at night and in the morning the old birds will wake up and assume that those other ones have always been there. NOW I can understand how this is so correct.
Our older birds always go into the coop a few minutes before sunset on their own without any prompting. The 10-week olds however almost always need to be ushered into their segregated half of the coop each night where they still opt to sleep in a bunch in the sand bath. Tonight, it was a good hour past dark before I came out to "put the chickens away" and I found the young ones all bundled up under a bush just outside the coop door. It's sometimes a small challenge to pick up a couple of them but not tonight, or AT night I should say. Barely a peep with their legs stuck straight forward like rigormortis had set in hours ago, I was able to place each one on the perch side by side. I practically had to wrap each toe around the perch for each one they were so stiff. The first foot would be easy but there would be a slight freakout when the second foot touched the wood
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The saying shouldn't be "blind as a bat" but "blind as a chicken at night."
Just too funny for me. They really are zombies at night.
I love chickens
Our older birds always go into the coop a few minutes before sunset on their own without any prompting. The 10-week olds however almost always need to be ushered into their segregated half of the coop each night where they still opt to sleep in a bunch in the sand bath. Tonight, it was a good hour past dark before I came out to "put the chickens away" and I found the young ones all bundled up under a bush just outside the coop door. It's sometimes a small challenge to pick up a couple of them but not tonight, or AT night I should say. Barely a peep with their legs stuck straight forward like rigormortis had set in hours ago, I was able to place each one on the perch side by side. I practically had to wrap each toe around the perch for each one they were so stiff. The first foot would be easy but there would be a slight freakout when the second foot touched the wood
The saying shouldn't be "blind as a bat" but "blind as a chicken at night."
Just too funny for me. They really are zombies at night.
I love chickens
