chicken coop/hut & run

happy_gardener

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Does anyone know where I can buy/get a cheap hen hut & run to keep about 5 hens in Northern Ireland. i have already placed an ad in freecycle and the free-ads paper. I have looked on ebay but the end of auction prices are too expensive for me, and then there is p&p ontop too??. I have thought of trying to make one but I have no DIY experience and a roll of wire is about £100 and then I would still have to make something or pay someone to make it - not an option. I wanted a cheap frame(anything really) and a wee hut so I can have a few layers in.

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ltwf1964

we have just bought a fab brand new ark for 6 birds from a guy who makes them in Portadown.They are £180,which believe me is very reasonable indeed!!We were quoted a lot more elsewhere.....that also sounds a lot for wire.....

arkonite_babe

I'm not sure where you are but there's this guy in Templepatrick:
http://www.johnty.f2s.com/pet-arks/

Artofdookie

I made a good one, i picked up a Gallagher's box for £5 and the wire was £25 ish in McManus Hardware in Randalstown. U nails and a few bits and pieces was under a £5 so the whole lot came in with an 8 foot run at £35 and the banties are very happy

happy_gardener

Thanks for the good advice. I have made one from scraps of wood having seen how to on the YouTube site. Am in search now for some rhode island reds or POL hens(I think)...I am just outside ballymena is anyone knows where best to buy a few egg layers....

thetope

Artofdookie wrote: »

I made a good one, i picked up a Gallagher's box for £5 and the wire was £25 ish in McManus Hardware in Randalstown. U nails and a few bits and pieces was under a £5 so the whole lot came in with an 8 foot run at £35 and the banties are very happy

we have two gallaghers box houses, one houses some ducks and the other two geese... cheap as chips and we call it "chateau canard"

BMcQueen

happy_gardener wrote: »

Thanks for the good advice. I have made one from scraps of wood having seen how to on the YouTube site. Am in search now for some rhode island reds or POL hens(I think)...I am just outside ballymena is anyone knows where best to buy a few egg layers....

Hi, would you have a link to the video you saw on youtube ?

Thanks

Baz

ltwf1964

Baz

we bought ours from the people who have opened the rare breeds farm just past Drumcree....you're not that far away in Derrycrew are you?

happy_gardener

dont have the link for the youtube video, but if you put 'chicken tractor' in the search in YouTube loads of videos pop up.