Flyte so Fancy Poultry Houses

Flyte so Fancy Poultry Houses


All Flyte so Fancy Poultry & Waterfowl Houses are designed and made in our own workshop here in Dorset. Made in Dorset by people from Dorset. They are constructed from the best quality pressure treated Scandinavian Redwood which will last for many years without further treatment. We even sand and then treat the cut ends with Ensele after construction. The treatment used is eco-friendly TANALITH-E® and is perfectly safe for all animals and birds. We thoroughly dry the timber in our yard, for about six weeks, when it arrives with us before we construct your henhouse so no shrinkage or warping will occur in later years.

We only use timber from well managed and sustainable resources approved and certified by the Forest Stewardship Council of Great Britain.

We design our housing with great thought, after 27 years experience in poultry keeping ourselves, so that they are easy to clean and look after for you. All units are constructed on 3"x 2" and 1.5" sq. framing using ex-19mm tongue and groove boarding and/or shiplap using stainless steel nails Timber roofs on the Maggie's Henhouses, Haven Henhouses and Annie's Ark are made with thick 1" tongue and groove shiplap to make sure it really stays watertight and well insulated.

All screws are double plated, and the houses are finished to a very high standard. We build good ventilation into our units to keep humidity levels pleasant and disease free for the birds. Floors are made with marine grade hardwood plywood (9mm) and raised off the ground on legs to keep troublesome vermin at bay.

All bolts, hinges, chains, turn buttons and weldmesh that we use are galvanised. We always use European heavy gauge weldmesh (galvanised after manufacture because this is the best!), on our runs because foxes can, and do, chew through normal chicken wire.

Made in Dorset

Made in Dorset

All Flyte so Fancy houses are completely fox-proof (and badger-proof) (providing you remember to shut the pop-hole of course!)

We recommend that about once or twice a year you apply a coat of Burgess Marine Clearsealer (available on our site) to the the timber roof boards of the house to keep it watertight. By then the timber will have been through a season of movement with temperature changes and will have settled in place. There will always be some small movements, as it is timber after all, but with care your Flyte so Fancy house will not need any other treatment for at least 10-15 years, the house itself is built to last much longer of course.

The heart-shaped window shown on most of our houses is standard and very popular but not compulsory, just let us know by email or when ordering if this is not required. To clarify, the window is not a 'hole' but is covered with a piece of clear, solid polycarbonate and we understand perfectly that it may not suit everyone. You can now select to have a chicken window, just add to your shopping basket with the hen house.

If considering the purchase of a Henhouse with a ladder for ex-battery hens, then please ask us to put plywood on the back of any ladder to help them use the ladder in their weakened, early recovery stages.

If you have any queries about our housing just call 01300 345229 or Email: info@flytesofancy.co.uk

For yet more details about how we build and design our poultry housing there is a five page article in the February 2008 issue of Practical Poultry Magazine, written by the Editor Chris Graham. Link to the Practical Poultry website from our Useful Links page.

And finally ... a plea ... Please don't buy cheap Chinese chicken houses, you will be disappointed and they will fall apart within a short time (you can tell which they are because they are the same henhouse, and usually the same photograph, on several different websites). If a henhouse looks like ours but is on another website then it is not ours and the quality will not be the same. We recently came across a website purporting to have a warehouse in Dorset but nowhere on their website had an address/location or a phone number and in fact they are actually registered in California - so please beware - if the website has no address and phone number ask yourself, why not?

There are just a few really good British manufacturers of Chicken Houses, which includes Flyte so Fancy of course, and who build quality houses. Ask them in detail about how they make their houses and perhaps you can even visit their workshop to see them being made. You are very welcome to visit our workshop here in Dorset during our opening hours, and visit our own chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys right here at Flyte so Fancy.

We would just like to reassure you that we are not on an industrial estate somewhere nameless (despite Google maps placing us incorrectly, please use 'street view' to find us) but in a beautiful part of the country and the views from our workshop are the ones you see throughout our website when showing off our henhouses. If you type DT2 7DX into Google maps, pan round and double-click on the road at the end of the wooden fence on your left, that's us - simples!

Our Guarantee

Our Guarantee

Wood is the living, breathing, rigid bit of the tree, and it therefore has a tendency to move with changes in temperature and humidity. Whilst the timber is in our care we endeavour to make it do what we want it to do, however, we cannot guarantee that once on it's own, the wood will not do what it wants to do. Despite our personal stringent adherence to quality of timber, there may be some movement or cracks appear with the passing of time.
That being said, and if you feel the wood is misbehaving too much, we offer a NO FUSS NO QUIBBLE guarantee that, if the quality of materials or standard of workmanship is not what you expected, we can replace the product or refund your money .

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