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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: BenBaddam on August 05, 2010, 06:48:43 pm

Title: chicken houses for sale
Post by: BenBaddam on August 05, 2010, 06:48:43 pm
Hello everyone,

I was looking for chicken houses for sale and here are the links I have found:

[url = www.henhouses.co.uk]Hen Houses[/url]
[url = www.pandtpoultry.co.uk]P&T Poultry[/url]
[url = www.happyhenhoose.co.uk]Happy Hen Hoose[/url]
[url =  www.chickencoopsdirect.com]Chicken Coops Direct[/url]
Chicken Houses for Sale (http://chickenhousesforsale.co.uk)

Which of these do you recommend?

Thanks,
Ben

P.S.
My budget is around 500 pounds for everything (house, run, feeder, drinker, chicken, fence etc.)
Title: Re: chicken houses for sale
Post by: supplies for smallholders on August 05, 2010, 07:49:11 pm
Hi,

I'm Hurt  ;) you didn't mention:

https://www.suppliesforsmallholders.co.uk/poultry-equipment-c-23.html (https://www.suppliesforsmallholders.co.uk/poultry-equipment-c-23.html)

Thanks
Title: Re: chicken houses for sale
Post by: little blue on August 05, 2010, 08:07:07 pm
(buy a shed)   :)
Title: Re: chicken houses for sale
Post by: Sharondp on August 05, 2010, 08:55:54 pm
Definitely go for a shed

http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php/topic,8639.0.html

Sorry SfS - I sell chicken houses too but I wouldn't buy one now I've experienced a shed!  ;D
Title: Re: chicken houses for sale
Post by: supplies for smallholders on August 05, 2010, 09:15:24 pm
Quote from: Sharondp on August 05, 2010, 08:55:54 pm
Definitely go for a shed

http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php/topic,8639.0.html

Sorry SfS - I sell chicken houses too but I wouldn't buy one now I've experienced a shed!  ;D

Then we agree to disagree - I wouldn't go back to a shed having experienced Red Mite!! tooooo many places for them to hide in a shed !
Title: Re: chicken houses for sale
Post by: CameronS on August 05, 2010, 09:18:06 pm
sheds all the way, i have a converted 7X5 shed, that has a self contained food store (or isolation compartment) as well as sleeping quarters,

and one of these http://www.chicken-houses.co.uk/product_details.aspx?pid=331 (http://www.chicken-houses.co.uk/product_details.aspx?pid=331)

though aesthetically pleasing it is a bugger to clean (not able to stand upright without removing the roof), and i feel the perches are a little close together, and no room for inside food/water.
How ever coops are more easy to move.

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Then we agree to disagree - I wouldn't go back to a shed having experienced Red Mite!! tooooo many places for them to hide in a shed !

SFS - you can get redmite in any sort of hen accommodation, both are as bad as each other, if you have to burn interior fittings such as roost bars and nest boxes, it is easier to make new for a shed than a specific coop.
Title: Re: chicken houses for sale
Post by: supplies for smallholders on August 05, 2010, 09:31:03 pm
Agreed - with any type of wooden structure red mite have a field day, seems more so this year with it being so dry I suppose. A lot of our customers are telling me they have bad infestations of mites.

I have moved away from wood to plastic for hen houses for a couple of reasons:

1) No end grain or cracks / splits for them to hide.

2) Ability to be powerwashed without damage

3) A shed is quite difficult to move once erected - and I like to move the hens around to reduce worm likleyhood and give the ground a chance to rest.

But each to their own.