Chicken Ark, Hen House, Run, Hutch
Chicken Ark - 8ft 6" x 4ft 9" x 3ft. Made from tanalised treated FSC certified joinery grade redwood 10mm shiplap from Scandinavia which had a 15 year warranty to protect against rot and insect attack (I am not a business and this is a used ark so obviously I can not give any warranty or guarantee or extend/transfer the one I had when I purchased it to you). It is British made. This is a good quality ark, cost me £300 approx. 3 years ago. I treated it with 2 coats of Sadolin Quick Dry Woodstain (Rosewood) which provides 6 years protection when I first purchased the ark and it has just had another two coats of Sadolin Extra Durable at £40 a tin plus I've done the work of applying it for you. The house is 3ft 2" long with a solid plywood floor and has a large access door on one side. The run is 5ft 4" long and also has a side access door. I put my large fowl Speckled Sussex and Araucana in the run for scale, they are not included in the sale. I have washed and sanitised the ark so it is ready for use. My hens have never had any parasites or diseases, they have been raised from hatching eggs and have had no contact with other chickens or second hand equipment, you are welcome to have a look at them when collecting the ark. It comfortably housed my 5 large fowl hens who had additional free range access to a large run but I now have too many hens for this ark so they have all been moved into a much larger purpose made enclosure which has made this ark redundant. It has bars each end so that it can be moved to fresh ground as and when needed. This is a substantial chicken ark not a lightweight inferior Chinese import that won't last a winter and will require at least two strong people to lift it (I can not help with this unfortunately due to health problems). That said one person can shuffle it around the garden easily enough one end at a time. You will also need a trailer or large van for transport if you want to move it as it is, there is no way that it will fit in a car boot or on a roof rack. I'm not sure if it will dismantle because it came fully made. The ark is put together with screws not nails so it is possible to unscrew it into pieces, however I'm not sure if it will unscrew into separate panels so it's probably better to transport it whole. Read More