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Yeah, you can read anything on the internet and never forget, this forum is on the internet. If there are parasites or bacteria in the bedding your chickens have already been exposed. They are going to lay in that bedding during the daytime. What's the difference? There probably are...

Not as far as I'm concerned. Chicks in a brooder sleep on the brooder floor without being harmed. My broody hens take their chicks to bed on the coop floor bedding. It does not hurt them. Some adult chickens sleep on the coop floor. I'm thinking specifically of Silkies that can't fly. Some...

While I have had some brooder raised chicks start sleeping on the roosts at 5 weeks, most of them don't start sleeping on the roosts until 10 to 12 weeks of age. Some people would be out there putting them on the roosts at night to train them to roost but I don't see any reason to do that when...