moving the hen house...any advice please

Hi all

Just wanted to check the general opinion on a couple of things..... I'm planning to move my free ranging chickens house to further down the garden. They are right outside the back door at the moment but the mess is just getting out of hand and I want to move the coup further down. Will this cause the girls any upset and is there a best time to move or should i just go for it ?

I'm also worried that moving the coup away from the house will encourage foxy to move in. I haven't seen any near at all after I found a poisoned one (not by us) in the front a while ago. Does anyone think that moving the coup would encourage a fox. Its a very secure coup and we let our german shepherd out every night to roam for a bit but I'm still worried.

I was so determined not to become too attached to the girls but I'm afraid its too late..... I will post piccies.....honest

Hi,
We moved the coop in full view of our chooks last year and they had been in the run to eat their food after it was moved. But by night time, they were totally lost and panicking a bit. Poppy even jumped up into the crab apple tree to roost. In the end we had to shoo them into their coop (very strange). After that they were ok.
Somehow or other they had recognized their run in a different place but not the coop.

Last week, we ended up moving our ark with a hen in the nest box  I have to move it when OH is free to help ...

She coped, laid and laid again next day, so no damage done.

We're building a new run ... I plan to shut the girls in it for a few days before starting to free range again, just so they know where home is.