chicken house

  1. Easter Opening Times & Shipping Information 2025

    Electric Fencing Direct at Easter

     

    Electric Fencing Direct Easter Opening Hours

    Office Opening Times

    You will be able to contact us on:

    Friday 18th April - in the office - by email or phone

    Saturday 19th April - out of the office - by email

    Sunday 20th April - out of the office - by email

    Monday 21st April  - in the office - by email or leave us a message and we'll call you back

     

    Dispatch Opening Times

    If you are planning on doing some electric fencing work over the Easter break and if you require your order before the Easter

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  2. Easter Opening Times & Shipping Information 2024

    Electric Fencing Direct at Easter

     

    Electric Fencing Direct Easter Opening Hours

    Office Opening Times

    You will be able to contact us on:

    Friday 29th March - in the office - by email or phone

    Saturday 30th March - out of the office - by email

    Sunday 31st March - out of the office - by email

    Monday 1st April  - in the office - by email or leave us a message and we'll call you back

     

    Dispatch Opening Times

    If you are planning on doing some electric fencing work over the Easter break and if you require your order before the Easter Weekend

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  3. Easter Opening Times & Shipping Information

    Easter Opening Times & Shipping Information

    Electric Fencing Direct Easter Opening Hours

    You will be able to contact us on:

    Friday 15th April 2022  - by email.

    Saturday 16th April 2022 - by email

    Sunday 17th April 2022  - by email

    Monday 18th April 2022  - by email

    Dispatch Opening Times

    If you are planning on doing some electric fencing work over the Easter break and if you require your order before the Easter Weekend please place your order on Wednesday 13th April before 12 o'clock - we will do all that we can to dispatch

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  4. The Hotline Hot Gate

    The Hotline Hot Gate

     

    The Hotline Hot Gate

    Hello sunshine in East Lothian and its welcomed by the singing of the birds and clucking of hens. After what feels like a long wet windy winter how is the your ground around your poultry netting gate? Churned up like a Clydesdale has ploughed through?? I bet it is and for those of you thinking no my ground is fine is it because you already have the lovely convenient Hotline HOT GATE?

    What can a Hot Gate do for you?

    Well let me tell you a wee bit about the HOT GATE and

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  5. Essential Accessories - Value Eco Paddock Posts

    Essential Accessories - Value Eco Paddock Posts

    VALUE ECO PADDOCK POSTS (PACK OF 10)

    OFFER PRICE £10.98  RRP £18.54

    Permanent fencing? Paddock separation? Haylage making? Naughty puppy eating your veg? I even use my white ones for training my wee dog to sit in a marked place. EFD's Essential Accessories - 1 Meter Premium Paddock Posts are a great choice.

    Our 1 meter value eco paddock posts are used for many many reason with many animals. We have all seen them in use in a horse field separating the field off or even in a field with sheep.

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  6. Essential Accessories: The Fence Tester

    Essential Accessories: The Fence Tester

    Hello All,

    So do you all check to see if your fences are working properly do you use a friend then wonder when you ask for help with a fencing problem do they suddenly become very busy or just find out when the animals have escaped that it is not....If you do check them how do you do it? Essential Accessories: The Fence Tester

    Touch and jump back?

    Get someone else to?

    Or use a fence tester?

    If like me you are a wimp and use a tester ( the best option really) then this blog is for you. A fence tester

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  7. Top Tips For Buying A Chicken House

    Top Tips For Buying A Chicken House

    Jim Vyse’ Tips for Buying a Chicken House

    We've heard it all when it comes to poultry house purchasing horror stories at Jim Vyse Arks. Poor design, flimsy materials, and hard to clean nooks and crannies are among some of the most common complaints.

    Many of our customers come to us needing to replace a cheaper poultry house that just hasn’t stood up to the demands of their flock or the great British weather!

    Generally speaking when you buy a chicken house, you get what you pay for and if you

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  8. Helping your birds through containment

    Helping your birds through containment

    On 4 January 2017 the Scottish Government announced that the Avian Influenza Prevention Zone will remain in force until 00:01 on 28 February 2017, maybe longer. As part of the requirements of the zone, all poultry and captive birds in Scotland must be kept indoors or otherwise kept separate from wild birds, and bird keepers must also apply heightened biosecurity measures where practical.

    So you have followed all the guidelines and are now faced with bird struggling with boredom?

    Here are some

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  9. Carefree Poultry Coops

    Carefree Poultry Coops

    Carefree Hen Coops and Traditional Wooden Poultry Housing

    If you are looking for a new hen house or chicken coop, maybe your coop is on its last legs or your flock is expanding... then you have come to the right place...we have a fantastic offer available until the end of June 2014 ...

    We have carefully sourced our poultry housing... and believe Carefree Coops are a well engineered design.

    Carefree Coops

    Computer designed and precision manufactured housing systems to provide the ideal environment

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  10. Roll up, roll up and see our Eggciting Poultry house offers in our Easter eggstravaganza -!

    Roll up, roll up  and see our Eggciting Poultry house offers in our Easter eggstravaganza -!

    ...bet you're wondering why is this chicken is walking away from you? Could it be that she's not looking forward to Easter?

    I know Easter's still a couple of weeks away - but since chickens don't like chocolate easter eggs why not get 'em a new house instead (and save that Thorntons supersize choccy egg you got them for yourself)???

    And the eggciting news (sorry, I just couldn't resist that ...  :x ) is that we at Electric Fencing Direct want to help you give your chickens something to  crow cluck

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