They still don't get it!

[janeyo]

We have had the new girls almost 3 weeks. One POL and 2 younger ones.
I now have a chickencam so I watch what they do at bedtime, it's fascinating.
All the older girls go to bed first. (we have lost another oldone since getting the new hens, so there are only 3 old girls). They come in and out as if they are guarding the coop.
Then the new POL makes NO attempt to go in the coop, she just flutters up into the roof and settles there.
The 2 youngsters KNOW where they need to be and are getting more courage to go in the coop but it's still hit and miss... they go up and down the ramp putting their heads in and out almost as if waiting for the big girls to go to sleep lol. Some nights, one of the new hens will go in, but the other one just flutters up to the POL on the roof and settles next to her.
Then, before the door shuts mr janeyo goes down, picks them up, puts them on the ramp and in they toddle happily into the coop ..... So frustrating!

Never had any that didn't 'get' it' for so long...

[Nicos]

I find that it's my youngest/ lowest of the pecking order which go in last- perhaps the more dominant ones peck at them too much until they've 'settled down' properly for the night???

[roitelet]

I have 4 of this years hatching who since Mum lost interest have insisted in roosting in a tree! They spend the day in the run with the others but at dusk off they go to the tree. I keep hoping that when the weather gets colder and the leaves have fallen they will get the message that it's warmer in a house

[lettucegrow!]

One of my new girls took ages too but cos others really didn't like her. She ended up roosting on her own on a branch in the run. I let it go for a while but as soon as it started getting cold / wetat night I started popping her in once it was dark. All ok now, but it took ages. I hated the thought of her on her own.

[elizajay]

I had a youngster in a bushy bay tree every night. I tried to herd her into the house when I saw her ready to fly from the roof into the tree. When I missed the moment I had to find her in the tree and put her to bed. She went higher each night to escape, but she has got the message now.

[Feral007]

Just imagining you climbing up the tree in the dark, with a torch clutched between your teeth.......... I'm not going to be doing that!
Luckily ours are in the henhouse on the roosts when we get there.