Chickens on the move

We put the chickens at the bottom of the hill when we settled them in. It was a nice shady spot, under the trees so that they could shelter from the hawk. They were away from the house so that the crowing of the roosters wouldn't disturb us and so that they wouldn't hang around the house.

After two years, we have decided that the chickens will be better off closer to the house. It'll be easier to top up their food and water and collect the eggs (when they deign to lay any) and they like to sit on the front doorstep anyway. And we have double-glazing now so the crowing isn't such a problem.

But we knew it wasn't going to be easy shifting their accommodation so we enlisted the help of the Hilux.

The first job was to disconnect the runs from the coops...



...which took a bit of heaving and hoing.



Then we connected up the coop to the towbar (fortunately it has built-in runners) and the fun began!



We couldn't believe our luck when the coop just glided up the hill behind the truck.



We used the ride-on mower to get the final position right...



...and then started putting it all back together again once we'd shifted the lighter hutches and runs up the hill on the back of the truck and in the mower's trailer.



The only question remaining was whether the chickens would follow...