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<blockquote data-quote="britt" data-source="post: 6971414" data-attributes="member: 1739"><p>We Use a McGregor house for about 200 hens. It stays in the same handy paddock by the buildings, but we move it once a month.</p><p>They are fenced in with flexinet to protect from foxs and give fresh ground each move.</p><p>If the ground gets very wet it may be much longer in one place as the tractor would make too much mess. </p><p>It's a pain moving the fence each time.</p><p>Water is a pipe over the ground so that it can follow the hut across the field, great until a good frost ! We also have electric to it for lights in winter and the fence energiser.</p><p>They do eat a lot of grass and the eggs are much better than just cereal fed hens (not something that I would have believed until we did it).</p><p>You can get automatic door closers to avoid having to shut them up at night. Don't let them out too early in the morning as they go out, get dirty feet and then make the nest boxs dirty, then you get dirty eggs. Let them out when you go to feed and collect the eggs, after midday if it's raining.</p><p>If you go for a McGegor have the floor fully slatted.</p><p>POL pullets are rarer than their own teeth at the moment, but I would imagine that will correct itself soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="britt, post: 6971414, member: 1739"] We Use a McGregor house for about 200 hens. It stays in the same handy paddock by the buildings, but we move it once a month. They are fenced in with flexinet to protect from foxs and give fresh ground each move. If the ground gets very wet it may be much longer in one place as the tractor would make too much mess. It's a pain moving the fence each time. Water is a pipe over the ground so that it can follow the hut across the field, great until a good frost ! We also have electric to it for lights in winter and the fence energiser. They do eat a lot of grass and the eggs are much better than just cereal fed hens (not something that I would have believed until we did it). You can get automatic door closers to avoid having to shut them up at night. Don't let them out too early in the morning as they go out, get dirty feet and then make the nest boxs dirty, then you get dirty eggs. Let them out when you go to feed and collect the eggs, after midday if it's raining. If you go for a McGegor have the floor fully slatted. POL pullets are rarer than their own teeth at the moment, but I would imagine that will correct itself soon. [/QUOTE]
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