A little bit late on posting, but its worth the wait. lol.

Well, I spent about 2 hours levelling a piece of ground at the back of our garden so we could give this Eglu chicken roost a more permanent home. Wasn't sure if it would fit at first. Our garden is a little on the small side.

After 2 hours of sweat and toil, digging through tree roots to do it, I finally managed to get what looks like a reasonably level piece of ground, and we wheeled the eglu into it. Trust me...that's the most back breaking work I've done in a very long while, and I'm still acheing all over.

Reading up on it, we went and got some wood bark chips and filled the ground with it.

While we were doing all this we actually let the chickens out for 5 minutes.... the problem was they loved it so much we spend 10 minutes trying to round them back up and into the Eglu run. They do tell you not to let the chickens out for 5 days so that they know where home is and don't just dawdle off. I say dawdle rather than "run off" because they're so thick they just wouldn't know.

So, here's a pretty pic of the now permanent Eglu:

We got another 5 eggs today! they're a bit small, but hey, they're only small chickens. They made enough noise trying to get them out so I think they're glad they're pretty small.

We've given a few away already.... and people want more!

Eventually we'll put a price on them so that it covers the costs.