This invention relates to improvements in housing for transport of livestock, particularly small livestock such as chickens from locations where they are reared to factories where they are to be killed and processed. The invention provides a housing for holding a plurality of drawers in which livestock may be transported comprising: a framework comprising runners on which the drawers can slide; a top panel (19) which provides cover for the or each uppermost drawer; wherein the framework comprises a top frame having two upper longitudinal members (4) and upper cross members (10), and in which the two upper longitudinal members are connected in parallel to each other and perpendicular to the upper cross members and are arranged in use to lie above the plane of the upper cross members; the top panel extends over the upper cross members.