Moving house with chickens

No experience what so ever but WHY WHY WHY do you want to move from Lancashire        
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I have some advice. Don't wait til the end of the day of the move as you'll be dog tired and moving the run, the hens themselves and all their kit and caboodle, loading it, and then setting it all up at the new house is just too much. I did it and we were so tired we could hardly walk. We had to go back for them which added to the general stress

So move them in advance if at all possible

Well what we did was move them from North Merseyside (Liverpool) down to Evesham, we puchased a chicken carrier and used a load of cat box's (very handy). Pack up the run extra a couple of days before, and then put the chickens in the garage over night.

When we moved down they were happy enough we just put them in the out house / shed / garage with wome Orange netting we had collected from the Tip (very very handy!!) We kept them in the shed for 4 months while I seeded the grass and built a new coop (brought the other one down but we damged it takign out of the van!!)

What I would say is if you get a company to move you which you will some dont like to move chicken houese I know ours would not.

But otherwise dont worry not that bad / hard really just more work .

Weirdest thing!  I thought no one had replied to this  , but have just noticed that I'm not getting alerts to replies etc.  I've just tweaked my settings  (Ooooo Missis!) so hope that's sorted it.

Thank you for all your advice.  It's such a distance, and we might even have to go into rental first, so thinking they'll have to become lodgers for a while.  There are people in this village who I'm sure would take them in until we're sorted out.

Will have to make a special journey just for them, 5 hours in a crate?   Don't suppose it can be anyworse than their rehoming day?

More worried about moving them than moving us.