Thank you all so much for your replies. We are going to adapt the coop accordingly. We are already thinking of designing and building our own coop in the summer but for now we shall have to adapt what we have. The girls are settleing in now but still no eggs ! its only been three days in their new environment so I suspect they are still abit stressed. I can see from the replies I have had that this site is going to be invaluabe and also looking forward to chatting to a lot of interesting people from around the globe.