"Jill" <news@NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 0tterbot wrote:
>> serious question!
>>
>> no matter how quiet i try to be when closing them up for the night,
>> the little blighters are all awake.
>>
>> i am starting to wonder if they're like cows & hardly ever actually
>> sleep, just rest.
>
> Interesting question
> Someone I know did an experiement with very low lux lights coming on and
> off > at different times and recorded activity through the night
> Unfortunately its on an old hard drive and I have not had time to sort
> this out.
> Last time I emailed his addy there was no response - it was a long time
> ago and he was threatening to go abroad then.
there's probably someone in the world who's recorded a full night of chicken
activity! (i wonder who?)
>> my three youngest chickens still don't roost, either. i made them a
>> spiffy new house with two lovely roosts, & all they thought about
>> that was to be sure not to bump their heads. they all sleep in the
>> nesting box. i don't know why i bother. apparently they'd have been
>> perfectly happy if i'd just made them a nesting box with a door on it
>> ;-) kylie
>
> Staple a bit of plastic bin bag over the nestbox front and lift it in the
> morning
> Its not good for their keels to sleep on them
right... then they'd just sleep on the floor of their house instead ;-)
last night when they were going to bed i was trying to pursuade them onto
the roost. all that was happening was that i was disrupting their bedtime &
causing anxiety & a great deal of popping in & out of the house & going
about in circles.
i can try popping them onto their roosts physically & see what happens. i
foresee them jumping off, but there you are.
kylie
