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[beaker]

Weve had our chickens for 2 weeks and got our first egg today horray !!! V excited !!! Our ginger has for the last 2 nights roosted under a plant in our garden (first night spent half an hour searching in torchlight thinking she had been stolen !!) x I have picked her up each time and put her back indoors is this normal? The chickens seem to be getting on ok!! We love having them !!! Cant believe Im typing on here ha ha !! Ps sorry if i have posted this wrong its all new to me !!

[Tina C]

Welcome to the forum Beaker! And congratulations on your first egg. Did you do the egg dance?

 

I have had a couple of occasions when chickens have 'camped out', but I prefer that they are safe in the eglu. Keeping posting Ginger back in - she will get the message eventually

[Egluntyne]

Why not try luring them back into the run with sweetcorn just before dusk?

 

Chickens don't see well once the light intensity drops to a certain level, so she may well not be able to find her way home, and could be very vulnerable if a fox is about.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Welcome to the forum, Beaker .

[MedusA]

Welcome to you and your girls, beaker. I hope Ginger soon realises that home is best when it comes to roosting.

[BarbaraJ]

Hi welcome to the forum, did you leave them in their run for a few days to imprint 'home' to them? seemed to work with mine.