I can happily say our move into our new house went well, and even though we moved only days after the shortest day of the year, the weather was (mostly) favourable and we moved almost everything over the weekend with only a couple of small boxes left to move tonight.

I managed to manufacture the steel frames for the Hen House last week and assembled them directly off the machine, mainly to test the machine, but it’s also faster than flat packing then assembling later.

The steel frames at home and ready to be turned into the Hen House

I can happily say our move into our new house went well, and even though we moved only days after the shortest day of the year, the weather was (mostly) favourable and we moved almost everything over the weekend with only a couple of small boxes left to move tonight. I managed to manufacture the ...

I’m about to move to a two acre lifestyle property in South Auckland and plan to build a Hen House to keep hens and ultimately, get fresh eggs.

Since I work in the light gauge steel framing industry, it was a no brainer that the Hen house (Chicken Coop) should be made out of steel and engineered for the local climate.

I decided on the size of 1800 x 3600 mm (6 feet x 12 feet). I chose this size for two main reasons. 1: I was going to clad it with plywood and plywood comes in 1200 x 2400 (4 feet x 8 feet) sheets and 2: It was well under the local council size limit of 10 square metres meaning I didn’t need a permit to build it.

I designed the hen house in the proprietary software developed by the company I work for. I decided that I would make two thirds of the space for the hens and one third for storage of chicken supplies (and in the future, my supplies for beekeeping).

My Hen House design rendered in 3D

I'm about to move to a two acre lifestyle property in South Auckland and plan to build a Hen House to keep hens and ultimately, get fresh eggs. Since I work in the light gauge steel framing industry, it was a no brainer that the Hen house (Chicken Coop) should be made out of steel ...