This range of housing has been designed to ease many of the more tedious tasks that accompany fowl keeping, such as cleaning. It also incorporates features that have evolved through many years of bird keeping where you learn the shortcomings of ill conceived poultry housing the hard way. All the Lenham range have removable nest boxes and side walls, removable perching, full length ridge ventilation, and carrying handles. The internal arrangements are made to keep cleaning as easy as possible. The external access nest box bank and the wall opposite lift away from the house and so , in a few moments the house is open right through for maximum access. The removable perching has been arranged in two banks either side of the central pop hole door and are angled to rise away from the door. This encourages the early roosting birds to occupy the highest perches and, therefore, the furthest from the door so avoiding congestion - even the birds at the bottom end of the pecking order get a perch. The walled corridor between the perch banks may be drawn out through the pop hole door. With the perches and corridor fitted the hens cannot get under the perching, so are barred access to accumulated night droppings. An old feeding bag left under the perching is a simple aid to cleaning. The central corridor has another advantage in being the only part of the ark floor the birds can walk on before mounting a perch, so takes the brunt of any soiling brought into the house by the hens. Because it can be removed, the normally tedious task of scraping dried compact soiling becomes much easier. My mother-in-law, to good effect, ties the perching and corridor together and soaks them in the duck pond while she sees to the rest of the ark. Another pet hate I have is birds using the nest boxes as sleeping quarters, or they perch on the edge of the boxes, soiling the nesting litter which results in dirty and, in my opinion, unappetising eggs. So we have incorporated night shutters which when in place, stop occupation of the nests, keeping fowling to a minimum