What are we building this week?
4 Run panels ready for collection
A set of run panels for a customer to build their own chicken run.
These are the same panels we use to build our own houses and runs. If you need custom width to fit a space, we can cope with that too at no extra cost.
3 Sonning Chicken coops almost finished.
2 Sonning minor chicken coops and a Sonning major chicken house that was the prize in a recent competition we sponsored.
9×27′ chicken coop and run from Wells Poultry
And a 9×27′ large chicken coop and run that we will be erecting on Friday. (this is obviously not the one we have yet to put up but one of the same spec we built some time ago)
And for good measure we’ve squeezed in a 3 sided chicken run These work out very cost effective if you already have a fence or a wall to put them against.
And while we’re on a roll, a 6×12′ house and run with external nest box and a 6″ base plinth and we might just finish a 6×15′ chicken coop and run, again with an external nest box but this time on a 12″ base plinth.
Summary
Article Name
What's in the Workshop this Week?
Author
Simon Wells
Description
This is a short update on which chicken houses we're working on this week.
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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.
