If you have received a discount or coupon code from us or someone else to use on our website then this short tutorial will show you how to claim your discount.

After you have selected your product/s and you are ready to checkout you will notice that the page in front of you will darken and the shopping cart popup will appear in the middle of your screen.

It will have a detail description of what your are about to order with places for you to enter your Zip/Postal Code and also a little box that has the words Discount Code – this is where you need to type in the code.

Type in the code and click Update Cart on the pop up window. If successful you will see the discount will be applied and the amount will show up next to Discount:

 Finally click the Google Checkout Button and you will be taken to a safe and secure page where you will be asked to  enter in your delivery details, email address, card details and then confirm your order.

I purchased the Sussex chicken coop from you last year. We’re now looking to add another run to the coop and wondered if you had a product or could recommend a product that could be linked?

This is quite a common request and we had a very nice customer who was quite handy and did just this. He even sent instructions and photo’s! Take a look and see if this helps.

Materials.
3 screw eyes, 2 tent pegs, 1 hasp, a small metal plate 1 Kent Run

How to do it.

Overall view of Sussex coop (painted green) and Kent run (brown). The long cane is merely to prevent the hens from accidentally closing the Sussex coop mesh door.

The crucial bit, as clearance is limited here. The upright of the Kent run must be positioned to allow Sussex coop mesh door to open and to allow Kent run door to open without touching sloping roof of Sussex coop. Kent run will flex a bit so not that hard to position. Once in place, movement of run is prevented by passing a tent peg through 3 screw eyes as shown. The brass plate on the Sussex coop is merely to prevent the run moving that way and the Kent run door hitting the coop sloping roof.

A suitably sized hasp with a tent peg passing into ground. ( A hasp is what you would normally put a padlock through-easy to get and cheap e.g.B and Q.

The other side of the run – no attachment needed here (although if go on holiday, you might want to screw a small right angled bracket for piece of mind.) Obviously you can’t open the solid wooden door on the outside of the Sussex coop while the run is in place but the run detaches easily for a weekly thorough clean and you can do a quick inspection through the egg box. Most importantly you have complete and easy access to the sliding door mechanism through the side of the run. I do this while suited and tied on my way to work and don’t get dirty at all.

Nothing to do with attaching run to coop, just a security modification to the coop opening lid. You could just as easily use a heavy object on the lid to outwit a particularly clever fox although not so picturesque.

Extra note. You might notice the mesh attached to bottom of run. We added this as fox anti-digging measure and it can be quickly pinned down in multiple places after moving run. Probably not necessary; you could instead put tent pegs with their tops on the wooden base of the run to hold it down.
After assembling my Kent run (easy), it took me 20 minutes to figure out best method of attaching run (so I’ve done the swearing and sweating for you!) although once your fixings are in place it will take a matter of a couple of minutes to detach your run, move the coop and re-attach it.
Hope this helps!

“When are you going to be lowering the prices as I told my parent I’d pay for a good house as some of the chickens are going to be mine. Have you got any round the 90 pound mark ???”

We don’t have any coops for £90. Just to give you an idea, the courier charge  that we pay to simply deliver one of our coops to a customer is in the region of £20 to £25 pounds, that will be the same for every chicken coop supplier out there.

Then you have your payment processing fees of about £5 on a £90 product. That leaves you with £60.

Presumably you would need to make some sort of profit, so at the end of the day if you manage to find a coop for £90 the people selling it to you would have to make it as cheaply as humanly possible, which means that every corner that can be cut will be and more than likely after a year or two you will be looking for another one.

We are not the cheapest coop online, nor are we the most expensive,  but i would like to think we are the best value for money. We have sold thousands of coops and we constantly get really great feedback from our customers:

http://www.chickencoopsdirect.com/reviews/

http://www.chickencoopsdirect.com/honest-reviews.htm

In my honest opinion a buying  a dirt cheap chicken coop is a “false economy”. You will end up getting another one and regret (or forget) that you even went down that route.

But ultimately it’s your choice. Good luck with it all!

“I am thinking about keeping about 2-3 chickens, but the area where I live has a lot of foxes roaming around who at the moment after a long hard winter are very hungry so I am wondering which chicken coop would be best for keeping foxes out.  Could you please advise?”

The Dorset and Sussex both have combined runs, and the nesting area is also raised – so your hens should be pretty safely in them at night.

As long as you lock them up at night i can’t see how a fox could get into the nesting area. The fox many be able to burrow under the coop – but that would give them access only to the run area. I personally haven’t seen a fox out and about during the day, so that would be the only time your hens would be in that area, so the chances, in my opinion, would be slim of that actually happening.

You could also place pavers or bricks around the coop base – so in effect the fox would have to dig deeper and further , which would probably deter him altogether.

Another alternative if you wanted would be to invest in some electric poultry netting which you could put up around the coop.

“I am about to order one of your Devon Hen Houses. My question is:- After purchase, how often do you suggest treating the wood, and what treatment would you recommend?”

When you order a chicken coops for us you will see that it has been  treated with an animal friendly base coat of wood preservative. This is only a base coat and will last up to three months after purchase. We strongly recommend that you treat your coop with a high quality varnish or wood preservative as soon as possible and that you re-treat your hen house at least once a year (preferably before the winter season) to maintain the applied preservative and water repellent properties.

A popular sealant to consider is Burgess Marine Hydrosol Clearsealer. This is a very high quality sealer which is ideal for use on pressure treated timber and is used throughout the marine industry. It dries clear and a little goes a long way and will protect the timber throughout the natural movements that occur with wood, and help to maintain the waterproof qualities of the your hen house over the years.

Some other brands to consider are Cuprinol’s Garden Shades, Ronseal and even Wilkinson have their own brand of wood preservative with added wax.

“Please could I have a catalogue on your chicken houses?”

We don’t have paper catalogues I’m afraid.  Our website serves as a ‘paperless version’ . All the information is there online with detailed photo’s descriptions and measurements and if ever you need some information that  isn’t on the site then just send us an email and we’ll do our best to answer it for you.

“We live in dorset can we vist you to look at your coops?”

All our coops are stored in flat packed boxes in our storage units, and we don’t have display models available for viewing, unfortunately.

We did think of offering a ‘show room’ but because the majority of our customers are too far away to benefit from a visit it doesn’t really make financial sense. We instead have tried our best to make sure we give you great description and clear pictures of the coops – and we also back your purchase up with a 28 day guarantee should it not turn out to what you were expecting.

And if ever you are in doubt about the quality and level of service you will receive then take a look at what others have been saying: Chicken Coops Direct Reviews

“I live on the Isle of Skye (joined to the mainland by a bridge) in the north of Scotland. Do you deliver here as I am interested in buying the Devon hen house today?”

We can possibly deliver your coop to Skye but the delivery charges levied by the courier firm who will be delivering the coop will be pretty steep!

If you live in northern Scotland and want to order one of our chicken coops please contact us beforehand with your postcode so we can give you a better idea of the extra delivery charges that are likely to be charged.

“I would like to buy some chickens to go with my lovely coop but I am having problems finding a place with chickens for sale. Where can I buy chicks? Do you know where there are plenty of different breeds available. Could you give me any suggestions?”

Have you ever considered adopting a chicken? There are some awesome organisations and charities that will help you get in touch with farmers that are looking to get rid of their hens after they reach a certain age. Its all down to economics, but without the help and support of people who keep chickens most of them will have to be destroyed, and they have many more years of life and laying in them.

While we can’t give you a list of places with chickens for sale we recommend contacting the British Hen Welfare trust and think about possibly housing some ex battery hens. Many customers have doneit and we wholeheartedly back up the cause.  Here is their website: http://www.bhwt.org.uk

“I’m very interested in the Devon Hen House with Run for sale. Do you require immediate payment for the item even thought it will not be delivered immediately?

If you order now the money will be debited straight away from your account.  I wish there was a way were we could delay the charge but it’s out of our control as all our payments are handled via a 3rd party and that’s the way they do it.

They don’t give us the choice to delay the transaction.