At last, a permanent home.

After only a few days of ownership, we're already very attached to our girls and have taken many meals sat outside their run, watching their antics. Personalities and pecking order are already in evidence; the Marans have a noticeably different temperament and although friendly aren't as easy going as the Orpingtons. Daisy, the Silver-laced Orpington is definitely the meekest bird and is getting picked on a little. Hopefully, given the space we intend to allow them, this won't develop into anything more serious.

At 5.30 today, the long awaited chicken coop arrived. We were obviously a lot more impressed than our birds, who quietly put themselves to bed in the potting shed whilst we were still assembling the new house and locating it in the run. I thought it best to leave them there for tonight and to try to encourage them into the new quarters tomorrow. Hopefully, the reduced size of the new penthouse apartment should stop some of the ridiculous sqaubbling. The perch I made in the potting shed had so be about 12 feet long to prevent them perching on a narrow edge to a bench... despite this, only one end was used resulting in the farthest bird being shoved off the end in a flurry of feathers.

The nice chap from Catsfield who supplied us with the house assembled it onsite for us and gave us some advice. We got a KR1 unit with a biosecure run to confine the birds should we need to. After a cup of tea and a fair bit of chatting, he finally left around 8pm and we finally sat down to dinner.