We need a hen house

[ARW]

our chickens were in a loose box in the fold yard but we have moved farms and need a new house for them, what’s the best solution, don’t want to spend a fortune but want get something that will last.
Any cunning ideas?

 

[TripleSix]

I'll get FIL to make you one if you want.

It'll be over engineered...

Tell me how big you want it and I'll ask him how much

 

[twizzel]

We made a cracking hen house based on 2 pallets with marine ply and clad with roofing sheets to keep the weather off the wood... perches made from broom handles and creosoted the lot before the hens moved in. Can pick it up with the tractor too it’s 3 or 4 years old now and still looks great, hens love it.

 

[cotswoldcs]

Convert a garden shed rather than buy an expensive coop.

 

[jackp]

our chickens were in a loose box in the fold yard but we have moved farms and need a new house for them, what’s the best solution, don’t want to spend a fortune but want get something that will last.
Any cunning ideas?

You can have this for £400 , colected Cumbria or delivery at cost

 

[pauld]

Fed up with red mites in timber houses . Now have 40 layers in a poly tunnel. Easy to clean and disinfect.

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

 

[Recoil]

An old stock box is good as they are easy to clean and disinfect and can also be moved onto fresh pasture easily.

 

[som farmer]

don't buy one advertised by pets for.. or similar they are rubbish

 

[rddrrr]

Plastic pig ark or calf hutch makes a good hen house, easy to move & no timber for mites to dwell. Would need an appropriate door and floor made though, perhaps a perch too.

 

[wr.]

An old stock box is good as they are easy to clean and disinfect and can also be moved onto fresh pasture easily.

That's exactly what we did. Brilliant hen house. 100% fox proof (when closed up at night) and easy to move to fresh patch.

 

[Paddington]

Mobile or fixed one ? One of our houses is a wooden garden storage shed with perches, a pophole,skids and wheels underneath and a couple of home made nest boxes stuck on each end, much cheaper and more substantial than those advertised on poultry websites.

 

[michael N123]

Look on the Facebook selling pages for a cheap/free caravan/static

 

[TexelBen]

We used a caravan and just chainsawed a bob hole in the side, just smash all the innards out and it's perfect, nice and light so you can actually see inside during the day

 

[landslave the 2nd]

@britt has two for sale

 

[davieogrutha]

Fed up with red mites in timber houses . Now have 40 layers in a poly tunnel. Easy to clean and disinfect.

Red stop solution, just add to drinking water. Gets rid of red mite. A natural product so doesn't affect the eggs. Saves having to powder them.

 

[Chasingmytail]

Anything moveable and an old electric fence works.

 

[muppet]

I would never buy one with tongue and grove pannels again as red mite are impossible to irradicate once they get in to them. Same apparently for felt roofs

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Roofing materials can be expensive but you can get large sheets of that protective plastic coating for windows from Wickes. It is like corrugated cardboard but plastic. It cost me £3 per sheet. It works really well to cover a piece of ply or T+G.

I did have red mites but after disinfecting and added lots and lots of that ericaceous earth stuff, it sorted it out.