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-shaped 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 wooden 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. Ask the company 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.
It is an internet minefield when trying to choose a hen house from a reliable company so we would just like to reassure you that we are not on an industrial estate somewhere nameless (use Google street view maps to see 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 and put the little orange man on to our name for street view, that's us - simples!
