Moving the furniture around

I decided to to move the position of the storage cabinet which holds all the things needed for my chickens. It was on the back boundary of the covered area of the chicken enclosure which is a big shed and made up of rounded logs. This means the cabinet doesn’t fit flush and every now and then we need to empty it to pull it out and clean behind it.

I thought if I moved it opposite the coop it would be against a flat fence and fit flush. This would mean I would never need to pull it out to clean behind it and I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before. The little coop that provides an extra nest box would be switched from the position the store cabinet will now be in to the position the store cabinet was in before. This means the footprint hasn’t changed and the floor space remains the same.

The girls like to jump back and forth from the coop roof to the storage cabinet during their bedtime routine so I wondered what they would make of the change.

I went in at dusk to see how they were getting on. As usual the little girls had taken themselves to bed in the coop and the big girls were on the coop roof. They soon started the game of jumping across from the coop roof to the storage cabinet and back again. At one point Dotty jumped from the coop roof to my back then the storage cabinet, using me as a stepping stone and then jumping back to the coop roof.

Once they were all back on the coop roof and the automatic door closer started to shut, I decided to end their fun and lift them down one by one and put them to bed.

Moving the storage cabinet doesn’t seem to have phased them at all from their bedtime game.

Changing the furniture around

The little coop is now on the end wall where the cabinet was.

The storage cabinets new position

Three girls on the storage cabinet

This photo shows Pepper has a huge bedtime crop and I find it amusing that Bluebell is looking down as if the ground may have changed position too.

The changing position of the cabinet doesn’t seem to have bothered them at all. It will be interesting tomorrow to see what they make of the little coop having moved too.