Sounds like some amusing chickens! Our slept in trees and on the fence when we got them too, but a few got eaten so we learned out lesson and shut them in the coop every night for a while, they figure it out eventually lol. Chickens are rad.
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They definitely keep me busy. I'm still waiting for mine to figure it out. Having mites set them back a bit on the training.
Yeah, luckily my chickens dustbath on the daily and havent seemed to have mite issues! I hear diotomachious earth or however you spell that will kill the buggers but not harm the chickens
Mine dust-bathe all the time too. I just failed to quarantine a new rooster that was apparently already infested. I added diotomacious earth to their enclosure so hopefully that helps as well.
ahh yeah the quarintine is important. Apparently all wild birds have them so any contact with them can spread it.
once, when I got new chickens, they were in a different coop for a while but when we integrated them one just decided to sleep in the coop with the rest of the other chickens on her own.