Flyte so Fancy

Flyte so Fancy: wooden houses for poultry and pets made in Dorset

Flyte so Fancy is a British company specialising in the design and manufacture of wooden structures for keeping poultry, pets and garden birds, as well as outdoor storage solutions. According to its own presentation, it has been building these products in Dorset for 24 years using sustainably sourced wood and its own workforce.

Poultry housing

The main catalogue includes chicken coops in various sizes and configurations, such as the Hobby Hen House, Handy (in versions for 4, 10 and 15 birds, some with wheels), Dorset Ranger (Six and Ten), Dorset Stroller (with vertical door or ramp and heart-shaped window), Maggie's (Six, Dozen and 24), Granary (8, 15 and 25), Salisbury, Broody (with 1 m or 2 m run) and The Flyte Aviary (for 4 or 6 birds). It also offers houses for ducks and geese, freestanding and walk-in runs, and protection systems such as anti-fox no-dig skirts.

The range is completed with specific accessories: feeders and drinkers, nest boxes, perches, ironmongery spares, automatic door openers (ChickenGuard, VSD and VSB), droppings sheets, rainshades for runs, hardwood woodchip and chicken keeping starter packs.

Pet and garden bird housing

Flyte so Fancy makes rabbit and guinea pig houses, dog kennels and runs, outdoor cat houses and catios, pygmy goat houses and shelters, and housing for other small pets. For garden birds it produces bird houses, owl and kestrel nest boxes, Framebow bird aviaries, Framebow dovecotes and bird tables.

Garden storage and furniture

The company sells garden stores and cupboards (Back Door Stores, Garden Storage Boxes, Recycling Box Stores, Welly Boot Storage, Sentry Box, Stronghold), log stores (Dorset Log Stores, log baskets), combination log and garden stores, and garden tool and machinery stores. It also offers gardening items such as arbours, cold frames, planters and baskets, as well as homeware (kitchen, dining, accessories, storage baskets, boot racks) and wheelie bin storage.

Poultry supplies and equipment

The range includes poultry feeds (layers' pellets, mixed corn, growers' pellets, chick feed, duck, goose, quail, pigeon and dove feeds), treats and peck blocks, grit and oyster shell, bedding and woodchip, egg boxes and labels, health and hygiene products (disinfectants, first aid, medication, tonics and vitamins, anti-feather pecking sprays, scaly leg mite sprays and ointments, wormers and parasite treatments, red mite and lice products), pest control (smoke bomb fumers, bait boxes and bait, repellents, fly traps, insecticidal aerosols), equipment (feeders, drinkers, hoppers, buckets, cleaning equipment, nest boxes, incubation equipment) and electric fencing for poultry and gardens (kits, energisers, netting, tapes, posts and insulators).

Signs and notices

Flyte so Fancy also sells signs and notices for farms and properties: eggs for sale signs, gate and door signs, general signs, estate and farm signs, warning and prohibition signs, and roadside reflectors.

Service and distribution

The company serves customers through its online shop and offers an information centre with video guides and expert advice on poultry and pet care. According to the website information, orders can be placed online or by phone, and delivery covers the whole of the United Kingdom. The telephone opening hours indicated are Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 17:00.