[Lewjam]

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Afternoon all,

Apologies for the adhoc diagram i don’t have access to upload a proper one at work!

The picture is my coop - assume x = wall p = perch d= door.

Basically 2 of my 13Wk chooks still refuse to perch and just nest down on the floor by the door!

Is this ok or should i try and make that bit uncomfortable to sleep on so they perch?  i read some where its not good for chooks to sleep away from a perch?

(i thought i had fixed this by boarding up the nest boxes, but they have just found some where new not to perch! lol)

Cheers

Lewis

[Casey76]

hehe Lewis, chooks always find a way to test us!

Every night, once it is dark, open the coop, pick up the chicks and place them on the perch.  It might take a week or two, but they will eventually get used to perching

[bramford]

mine two prefer to cuddle and never perch and they are both fine but I am no expert   

[terri]

one of mine perchs the other two sleep on the floor and in the day in the garden they just sleep in the soil beds -used to be flower beds-

[CattinJ]

Mine are ex bats and prefer the nest box - I'm happy with that if they are!

[Lewjam]

Hehe only took two nights of moving them, they all were  pearching like good little chooks last night!