Bring on the girls!

The coop is all assembled painted and in position.  We're picking up our hens tomorrow afternoon.  This is very exciting.

We decided that the run built in to the coop was a little too small for four chickens, so we splashed out an extra £70 on the extended run.

I've painted it all up with Cuprinol Garden Shades paints, Forget-Me-Not Blue and Country Cream.

People were suggesting putting paving slabs around the coop to prevent foxes digging underneath.  We've got an old patio at the bottom of the garden that we were planning to dig up anyway, so I thought it would be easier to lift up a couple of slabs in the middle and place the run over the hole.

I felt a little bit bad doing it without the chickens there, they would have had a great time with all the woodlice, worms, centipedes and various other bugs I uncovered.  Still, they've got a nice little patch of gravelly, sandy soil to scratch around in and I'm sure they'll find a few little creatures to munch on too.