Bed time woes

After a nice long day of roaming, the time would come for the girls to return to the safe shelter of the coop until the next morning.  This is where I would come in to the picture to see if could coax them back into the coop without too much drama.  Well, it turned not to be so easy and to this day I still battle to get them in.  Hope especially resists going back in, while Love is not much better.  Often I end up having to pick them up and put them down inside the coop. I can see that they really don't enjoy this and I try to be as quick as possible to avoid putting them under too much stress. Once they are in, I close the front door cover and can, from time to time hear a big racket (sounds like they are flying into the walls or fighting!) while they try and settle into the thought of settling down for the night.  Luckily this is over within the first half hour or hour after they are put in. I resist going to peak in to see what on earth is going on because when I once did, it just caused more of a disruption.

Once Hope settled in, she wanted to sleep in the lavender bush at night!