A New Home!

For the chickens that is! We finally finished cleaning out the 3m x 3m garden shed that was planned to be for the chooks today. It's not totally set up yet, but we threw some sugarcane mulch in the corner, and a few old sticks for them to perch on in the middle, and cut a hole in the metal at the back so that they could get in and out. We curved some split hose around the edges so that they couldn't cut themselves, and secured it with race tape. Not pretty, but it works.

The chooks weren't so sure about it though. I think they were put off by the noise of cutting the metal, because when it was full of stuff, they raced in every chance they had and sat in there.

I went out to check on them at dusk, and there they all were, sitting in their tiny old house! I put them into the new one, and they sat there making pittyful clucks, then came straight back out and into the old one as soon as my back was turned! I think we're going to have to pull the old one out, and lock them in the new one for a few nights so that they get used to it.