This is so much more than just another hen house. The Family Starter hen house is part of the Chicken Coop Starter kit series from Creative Coops which offers five essential ingredients to help you start keeping chickens at home. This kit includes: All pre-cut and pre-drilled plywood panels, labeled 1x2 framing strips, hardware parts, and assembly instructions, for you to build your hen house. Plans you can use to build a 4-feet x 8-feet heavy-duty fenced run designed to fit with the hen house. (Buy your building material locally). Traceable artwork to decorate your hen house after painting it just the way you want. One NightGuard Solar device for added protection from night time predators. A booklet of 25 useful tips on how to raise backyard chickens. What makes Creative Coop products so unique is that they are made of modular parts. This means that if you decide to expand your flock in the future, you can expand your hen house by just adding more parts. No need to invest in a new larger hen house. So this may just be the only hen house you will ever buy. This family hen house holds up to 6 chickens which is enough eggs for a typical family. It has eight linear feet of roosting sticks, one nest box which can be shared by all the chickens and one droppings tray to collect manure for your compost pile. It is made of unpainted sturdy 3/8-inch exterior plywood reinforced with 1x2 Douglas Fir framing strips. The floor of the house is fenced with 16 gauge welded wire with 1-inch openings and the windows have an added ¼-inch hardware cloth to protect from predators reaching through at night. The roof is covered with tar paper and composition rolled roofing. All Creative Coop products are made in America from long lasting material. You know that with your purchase you are helping to create jobs for American workers.