When will it chickens start using their roosting bars?

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This is my first go with chickens too so take my experience with this for what it’s worth.

We moved our chicks to the coop at about the same size as yours. They didn’t use the roost and I didn’t understand why because they had used one in the brooder and would jump up there during the day in the coop. I had lights on until I went out to close them in for the night. I would throw a hand full of treats on the floor and turn off the lights. Then, I read something about their eyesight not being so good after dark. I was basically giving them treats and leaving them in the pitch dark wherever they were without knowing they couldn’t see well enough to get on the roost. I started giving treats in the mornings, turning off the lights before the sun went down and physically setting them on the roost when it was dark if they weren’t up there already. It took 3 days for them to do it on their own. Mine was a total human error. Not saying yours is but thought I would share in case it might trigger a thought of something you might need to change for them or help them know.

Thank you!!

 

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View attachment 4108271Current situation let meexplain . So we had two shelves in the shed that got turned into a coop. The plan is to make both of them roosts with poopshelfs. The one mostly in this picture hasn’t been fully converted yet. My husband set this plank between the two just for S&G because it was extra. Now they’re roosting on that

Then the the other half is on the floor behind a tarp lol