The Run is mostly up and it looks splendid. Or it would do if I cleared the piles of carp that I've got lying around.
It's currently divided into two discreeet runs, each with their own door. .The section nearest the house is slightly smaller than the section behind it, and that is where the New Girls are going to be for the next couple of weeks.
The Oldies will have the back section, and I'll have to decide whether to close off the fruit cage run for them. I don't have a way to give the new girls access to the fruit cage, I've seriously been considering a tunnel system like they use in Monkey World. I haven't mentioned that to DH yet.
Once the integration is well under way, we will remove some of the separation to make one big run. A small part of it, at half height, will (probably) be there permanently to make it feel like the run ahas multiple "rooms". It'll help when they are in Flockdown.
Poor little Odette did go into the Cube to explore earlier, but she had trouble with the ladder. Serious trouble, as in, she fell in between two rungs. I've cable tied the wooden ladder (made in a hurry for baby hens many years ago) over the top and she managed that better when I shooed her up it.
For expediency, we shuffled the Orange cube into the place previously occupied by the Purple one. The Purple cube, when we are ready to move the Oldies into their part of the new run, will be where the orange one used to be.
It'll be a few days before we're ready to do that.
I'm wondering if Miss Teen will notice the position change. Miss Tween would have noticed within seconds of walking into the kitchen and looking out of the window.
I also need to find a big enough sunshade to put over the New Girls part of the run, as there isn't enough shade. They can sit under the Cube, which is shaded by a tree, but it's not enough, The other section has plenty of shade.
D H will start taking down the temporary run tomorrow, and I've asked him to also pile up any additional bits we need for the Catio. This can then all be cable tied together, and stored somewhere out of the way.
We have a lot of panels remaining, and I've decided to sell some Extension sets. I've already made up bags with the ancillary bits in, I just need to see how many panels and roof infil bits I've got available, to see how many complete sets I can make up.
Big clearout coming.
