hen house design hints

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meterman

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Re: hen house design hints
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2009, 21:06 »
This is my attempt sleeps 11 on 2x3ft perches
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Re: hen house design hints
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2009, 12:32 »
I have built several houses out of scrap/spar timber so have had to build the house to fit the materials.
My best designs inventions are.

I built the cabin so the whole of one wall is removable and the floor is a sheet of ply split in two. This allows you to get in easily to clean and also lift out the floor to take to compost etc and scrape clean. No crawling around in low cabins scraping poo.

I put angled bits of ply over some of the awkward corners to make it easier to clean.

Externally mounted nest boxes so easy egg retreaval

Make sure the nest boxes are lower than the perches or they roost and poo in them. Lots of dirty eggs.

Perches are mounted in slots on peices of timber fixed to the sides. You can remove them for mites also remove them easily throuh the drop down side to get clear space when cleaning.

I have also made free standing perches that just sit on the floor. They are a triangular shape with three perches. Problem with these for me was they werent high enough to stop them roosting in nest boxes.

Try to make roof out off tin sheet or similar. Roofing felt is good for mites!!!!

Best of luck. Whatever happens the hens wont really mind they will be happy you will just have more fiddling and work.

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parson

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Re: hen house design hints
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2009, 10:47 »
Before I converted my shed I was considering copying this design pretty closely.

http://www.onestonesoup.org/ProjectChicken



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