This round of baby chicks (now teenagers) are just a tad bit different from the last batch. For starters… there’s more of them. And although they seem to get along just fine with the big chickens… they do have their quirks. Like needing to be tucked into bed each night.
For the last two weeks (since I took away their small Eglu (chicken house) each night they have been flying to the top of the Chicken Mc Mansion and waiting patiently for The Girl Who Thinks She’s A Bird to pick them up one by one and put them inside the cage…
As soon as they’re within the confines of the Chicken Mc Mansion they’ll hop up the orange plastic ladder and head to bed… But the strange thing is… they wait for her to put them in the cage.
They refuse to go in by themselves… One night we even waited until 10:30pm to see if we could wear them down… to see if they’d go in… but they didn’t.
So now what? How do we get the chickens to go into the Chicken Mc Mansion by themselves at night? How to we get them to behave like normal chickens? We need our beauty sleep! If you have any suggestions… please leave us a comment… we’d appreciate it.
The Natural History of the Chicken
Dawn says
Hmmm…I do not have a solution, but maybe I can give you a bit of hope. I had a batch of buff Polish with this problem. Everyone else would go into roost but not this bunch. Each evening I had to pick them up one and by one and put them in the hen house. It took about a month, but eventually they got the hang of it. Now they go in on their own. I guess my only suggestion is to have patience and continue what you are doing.
Mavis says
I have to wait another 2 weeks? Wow. Well at least I’m not the only one with this problem.
mel says
You have silly problems! 🙂 Too funny!
agodlyhomemaker says
no help here cuz we have the same problem!!!
bev says
We asked our friend, who gives us eggs, if she kept a light on in the coup? She relayed, no I have a red LED light (tiny) and she has lots of big brown eggs all the time. Anyone ever heard of this?