"Janet Galpin" wrote in message
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Does anyone know whether chickens will get used to two different houses
and alternate between them? I'm wondering about having a moveable house
and run as well as the fixed one so that I can have them in different
parts of the garden to make use of the available grass and keep down
some pests, (e.g. in veg beds when they've been cleared of crops) but
then also have them at other times in the permanent house and run.

My first attempt at using a mobile coop failed as I moved it during the day
expecting the hens to go to it that night. No, the stupid things just
settled down on the earth where it used to be, despite the coop being only
yards away in clear sight.

Mike