Roosts

At the moment in our chicken shed we have roosts for our chickens, made out of wood but soon we are getting a better roost. Our chicks love perching on the bits of wood. Here is a photo of Ritchie and Starkey on the perch..... 

 The chicks sleep on the perch and in the morning they are sometimes still asleep and we sometimes get to wake them up. Then we put them back in the cage and they run back to the perch and hop on and go to sleep like a little baby. Here is a fact about chickens on roosts, chickens like sleeping up high because rats, stoats, hawks and stuff like to eat chickens and another tip is to keep your roost the same level and keep it is straight as possible. Some people make roosts out of wood and some people use ladders even. 

By Abbie, "Erikka and Mackenzie