After we lost Lotti, we left the Verandah in place because the girls really liked it; sunbathing on it during summer days, and sometimes sleeping on it during hot summer nights.
Anyway, it's not summer and, although I'm sure the litlees aren't getting cold, I'm pretty sure they were sleeping on the verandah because Poppy and/or Gloria wouldn't let them in to the Cube.
We decided to give them more choice. We connected the purple cube to the main run, so we have two cubes open. For the first night, I forced the older girls, Gloria and Poppy, to sleep in the purple cube and let the litlees sleep in the orange cube.
The next night they organised themselves. Poppy was in the purple cube, Gloria was in the orange cube with the littlees (although Gloria was in the nest box).
The third night, Poppy and Gloria were in the purple cube.
Then Fleur laid her first, dark brown, egg. (I did the egg dance, in my dressing gown, in the rain)
Then all of them were in the orange cube (Poppy and Gloria in the nestbox).
And it's been that way since.
