The chickens were roosting.

Like the Red Junglefowl (the closest wild relative of domestic chickens), feral chickens will take flight and roost in tall trees and bushes in order to avoid predators at night.

But what it would never, ever elect to do again is turn out the lights and roost when the chickens roost.

Once the dust settles and the chickens roost on reform, employees will almost certainly feel a nip and tuck somewhere in their compensation packages.

The chickens are roosting in their houses, and the horses are giving me significant looks over the pasture gate.

Now the chickens roost in there.

Fired by responsibility in such an important village-wide effort, they had revealed all the places the chickens hid and roosted.

The chickens roost early.

The poet says that chickens roost over Elynour's fermentation tank and drop their excrement into the froth.

The chickens were roosting, and honest people were in bed.