Get your hens off to the best start with “Good2Go” packages.
| Good2Go Small Business Opportunity Tunnel Shed | POA |
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The design of these sheds are based on our successful free range rearing operation and we have had many satisfied free range & organic “tunnel shed” purchasers throughout New Zealand, with incredible feedback.
We are happy to discuss alterations to suit your specific requirements whether it be rearing, fattening or laying poultry.
Optimal health for your hens and less work for you!
Shed sits 150mm off the ground
Metal Skids allow for easy shed movement onto fresh ground
Easily moved/towable by tractor or 4x4
Main shed construction is steel – eliminating bugs/mites living within the tunnel shed.
Easy clean, good air circulation and predator proof.
Square galvanised wire mesh floor/Nest Box padding – no STRAW or SAWDUST (bringing in/encouraging bugs & germs).
Large Tunnel Laying Shed
Length - 8m, Width - 4m, Height - 1.6m
Shed and perches will accommodate 250 or less laying hens.
Features:
Nest Boxes accessed from outside the shed*.
Nest boxes sloped downwards (egg roll away) to allow for clean eggs and easy collection.
Commercial quality “roll away” nestbox padding - reducing breakages & “egg eating”.
4 removable perches – Each 8m long - for easy cleaningPolystyrene to protect against cold and hot temps - reduces temperature peaks by approximately 3.5 degrees.
Zincalume cladding/Colour Steel option.
Front of shed has a stable-style door made of plywood with a walk ramp attached. There is a hen sized entrance on the bottom door and a peep hole in the top door.
All 3 doors can be shut securely for security or for introducing & removing stock.
Both stable doors open for human entry.
The back of the shed is a combination of Zincalume and fibrolite (required daylight source for laying hens).
| Good2Go Tunnel Shed Package available | POA |
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All you need for happy hens & a "run itself" business or lifestyle!
- 250x Brown Shaver Free Ranged Hens @ 16 weeks
- 2x "Free Range Poultry Feeders" exclusively available from Heslip's Hatcheries
- 2 x bell drinkers
- adjustable chain connections (dependant on age of stock)
- + on/off valve & waterlines connected.
- 1x Solar light - giving your layers 16 hours of daily light for optimum egg production
Our food and water systems, eliminate contaminations from stock, moisture and micro-organisms.
| Small Tunnel Laying Shed | POA |
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Length - 3m, Width - 4m, Height - 1.6m
Shed and perches will accommodate 100 or less laying hens.
Alteration to features as above
4 removable perches – Each 3m long.
Package Option
- 100x Brown Shaver Free Ranged Hens @ 16 weeks
- 1x “Free Range Poultry Feeders” exclusively available from Heslip’s Hatcheries
- 1x bell drinkers on adjustable chain connections (dependant on age of stock) + on/off valve & waterlines connected.
- 1x Solar light - giving your layers 16 hours of daily light for optimum egg production
Getting to your site
*Due to max. trucking widths, the large large tunnel sheds arrive with nest boxes unattached. In most situations Heslip’s Hatcheries will be onsite to re-assemble the net boxes. Heslip’s Hatcheries reserve the right to remove this option from the purchaser depending on purchasers location.
All sheds are prominently completed on our site.
A Hi-Ab is used to on and off-load the sheds in most situations.
Heslip’s Hatcheries reserve the right to instruct the purchaser to arrange transport.
Freight costs are dependant on location & availability, contact us specifically to discuss.
Please enquire as to the availability of stock.
Large Tunnel Laying Shed

Large Tunnel Laying Shed - with Open Hen Door
Large Tunnel Laying Shed - Side View

Large Tunnel Laying Shed - Egg Collection Boxes

Small Tunnel Laying Shed

Small Tunnel Laying Shed - Egg Collection Box