Moving a chicken house, an extension and a new rabbit run all in one day.
This is a chicken run / rabbit run we first built about 6 years ago, and revisited 4 years age to convert to a house and run hence the variations in colour between the different parts.
Today’s job was to dismantle this chicken coop and run, move it next door and add an extension. Our houses are easy to dismantle and reconfigure although as the roof is nailed on this needs to be replaced.
This is the existing chicken coop and run we built sometime ago, now with it’s roof removed ready to move.
This is the chicken house in it’s new position with it’s new roof and mesh roof extension. The doors of the original house and run were repositioned. This house now measures up at 6×24′ covered and 6×24 mesh roofed.
The original chicken house repositioned with the mesh roof run extension fitted.
The last job was to build a rabbit run where the original house was. This was a 6×9′, 6′ high run with apex roof with a 6×9′ 5’6″ mesh roof run attached to giving a total of 6×18′. This was completed in darkness.
Custom spec rabbit run, half covered, half mesh roof
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Brand Name
Wells Poultry Housing
Product Name
Large Chicken Coop and Run
Price
GBP From 700
Product Availability
Pre-Order Only
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Once upon a time, not so very long ago Auntie Bev arrived at Louise's 16th birthday clutching a rather tatty box, full of holes and tied up with orange baler twine. Louise opened the box and out sprang two chickens. (And also the birth of Wells Poultry but we didn't realise until later)
Louise thought this was great although Lesley (Louise's mum) was not impressed to say the least.
Now, a cardboard box isn't the best home for a pair of chickens so next morning I was off to that well know DIY shop in search of timber with a vague idea of what a chicken house looked like. And so our first chicken house was created.
Sadly these first two chickens were swiped by a fox within a few weeks so we bought a trio of birds from a local breeder. I'm sure that is a familiar story to a lot of people - 2 chickens become 3 and then 3 become 6 and then you need more housing.....
Suffice to say, six months later I was building chicken houses full time in the back garden of a terrace house in Reading. Another year on and we moved to Wales for more space and the business continued to grow. We're now preparing to open our new workshop which will double our current space and allow us to take on more staff....
We attribute much of our success to the fact that we are very similar to many of our customers, we're content to keep a few chickens in the back garden as much for amusement as the eggs they produce. We don't have acres of land so know the limitations a back garden flock. And we firmly believe that the only time you'll need to buy another chicken house is when you need a bigger one not because it's fallen apart.
