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Minimum preferred space on a roost for each chicken is 18 inches. Less than this amount of space promotes feather pecking and fighting among the flock.

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What is a roosting system?

A good chicken coop should be a safe place for your chickens to relax, lay eggs and roost. When designing the coop layout, one must consider that at night the chickens will often prefer to roost above floor level and when doing so will defecate and deposit dropping on anything below them. A good roosting system takes this into consideration and makes sure that feed, water and nesting boxes are not directly below the roosts. Roosts should be sturdy and rounded so as to be comfortable when gripped by the chicken as they perch. Each bird will need roughly 14 inches of space and roosts should not be stacked.


Where do chickens sleep?

Where do think they sleep? Just because they dont have a bed with an electric blanket and drink a glass of milk before bed like all you mummas boys doesnt mean they dont have a bed. Clearly you have never been to a chicken farm. Chickens sleep in a chicken house!!


What came first the chicken or the egg if the egg came how did it come if it was the chicken how did that come?

god made the chicken and the chicken made an egg OR Dinosaurs laid eggs before the chicken Yellow pineapples purple monkeys in space


What does roosted mean?

When a chicken roosts it climbs up to a level higher than the ground such as a shelf or bar about three feet off the ground. Chickens feel safe while roosting and this is instinctual since birds in the wild will settle in branches when it gets dark to be safer from ground predators.


Where are chickens kept?

In the springtime, there are a lot of places that you can buy chickens. You can get them at any farm store, most hardware stores, and maybe pet stores I don't know. Check in your area. As for the other seasons, I don't know, maybe a farm somewhere. We get ours from the local " Family Farm and Home" Hope this helped!