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  1. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    Thank you for your comment! I'm so use to northern chicken rearing that birds not retreating for the barn at night worried me, but I'm glad that they don't seem to be in danger of the elements.
  2. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    No worries :)
  3. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    Their coop and chicken yard are fenced and roofed, and that fence is inside a 1.5 acre 6 foot wooden privacy fence that the Great Pyrenees patrols at night, so I'm not worried about predators. I am going to install a light this weekend to see if they are just afraid of the dark. Havent seen any...
  4. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    They've never voluntarily slept in the coop, when they were first moved outside, I'd put them up at night for the first two week, locking them in, but they have all decided outside is better. They are safe from predators, I'm more concerned about if they will get too cold. They come and go...
  5. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    5 roos, 12 hens (everyone gets along). No mites or mice, found an old wasp nest in the roof line, but it's long since abandoned. Perches are 2x4x12 (on edge) untreated pine, row one is 4 foot from back wall at 3ft high, row two is only two foot from the wall at 3.5 ft high and the last 6 foot...
  6. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    I'll try lowering them a bit, they 'fly' from the ground to the rail, so I've never considered the height to be a possible culprit. Will do some rearranging and training and see how that goes. Thank you for your help :)
  7. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    HAHA that's great :) No I don't have a light but they have a eastern and southern window, and the flood lights off the house illuminate the coop until about 1930. Mine seem impervious to weather, rain, snow they just hop around searching for grubs. I'll try adding a light, and see if they...
  8. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    I'll take pictures of the inside when I get home from work, and update, but it's basically a 6 foot and a 4 foot water troth stacked on their sides full of hay and partitioned for laying boxes which they use and about 30 ft of perches along the other walls, about 3.5 foot off the ground. I clean...
  9. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    Updated with picture :)
  10. CheepThrillsAcres

    They choose to sleep outside...

    Greetings! I have run across some unusual (to me) chicken behavior, my flock just will not sleep inside the coop. My background. Originally from upstate New York (basically Canada), my childhood was spent on a small farm with cows that we boarded / raised / slaughtered, and chickens that we...
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