Because keeping chickens has become one of the fastest growing hobbies of 2008 / 9, our range of Chicken Coops are carefully selected to ensure the highest quality and best value for our customers.
Please view our chicken houses and choose from a stand-alone version or one with a chicken run attached. We have chicken coops to house from 2 to 100 chickens so you are sure to find a chicken coop to suit your requirements.
Buy top quality Barn Dried Hay for your chicken coop - dust free and medicated and supplied in user-friendly packs
You may also wish to view our selection of chicken runs which will give your birds extra space in which to scratch around.
An assortment of chicken coops
Anyone wishing to breed chickens should do some careful homework. Not that it’s difficult, but rather that chickens have specific needs. The more you understand about breeding chickens, the more successful you will be.
At Ideas-4-Pets we have a comprehensive range of all the necessary products you’ll need, including chicken coops and chicken arks.
We can guide you as to the size chicken ark or chicken housing you will need according to the volume of chicks you plan to breed. We will also advise you on all the necessary things like feeders that you will need for poultry houses. We have the expertise and we have the product. Furthermore, we have the prices you’ll enjoy!
Because keeping chickens has become one of the fastest growing hobbies of 2008/9, our range of chicken coops are carefully selected to ensure the highest quality and best value for our customers.
Stand alone poultry houses and runs
You will find our selection of chicken housing and chicken arks is very wide. Our chicken coops and poultry houses are available in a stand-alone version or one with a chicken run attached. We have chicken coops to house from two to 100 chickens so you are sure to find chicken housing to suit your requirements.
The benefit of choosing the chicken ark is that you can move it around the garden, thereby giving the chickens fresh grass to eat and scratch every day or so. The other good points are you know where they are and can easily shut them in the chicken ark for the night.
Keep poultry houses clean
The poultry house will need to be cleaned regularly, exactly how often will depend on the amount of birds you are keeping and the time of year, but ideally the chicken housing should be cleaned once a week. It is very important to keep all the crevices of the poultry houses clean and watch for signs of infestation by red mite or fleas.
The floor of the chicken housing should be covered with sawdust but it is very important that this should be dust-free wood shavings as chickens have delicate respiratory systems and dust can be very harmful to them.
For the same reason clean, dry wheat straw (not hay) should be used in their nesting boxes, preferably on a layer of sawdust.
The floor of the poultry house can be lined with old newspaper first, then sawdust, droppings and all can simply be rolled up.
Poultry droppings make one of the best garden manures you can get, though used fresh and direct, in quantity, can be too strong for plants. It is better to allow the manure to rot down with the old straw and sawdust - it really shouldn’t smell.
