Chicken Coops for Sale in Elim, Alaska
Chicken Coops for Sale in Elim, Alaska
Build Your Own Chicken Coop – A story of chickens
So WAY back in March…Josh and I had a talk with the boys and we decided as a family that we would get some chickens. We were all pretty excited about this new adventure and couldn’t wait to get started! At the beginning of April we headed over to to figure out what we would need and how many chickens we wanted. They had a very helpful employee who told us everything we would need to know about taking care of our chickens. Also, lucky for us we had Housewife Gena available to answer any questions we might have!
The boys were excited to help pick out the chickens and were even more excited when the IFA staff told us the chicks needed to be held lots and lots so they would be used to the kids. 🙂� After about an hour there we came home with…
Six adorable chicks! Because we are a family of five we decided to get two chickens that are said to lay daily and four chickens that lay 3-4 times a week. We figured that would be plenty of eggs for us!
A couple weeks later, IFA did an Easter Egg Hunt. Now being a farm supply store, they don’t give away just candy in their eggs, they also give away…you guessed it CHICKENS! (And bunnies and ducks and turkeys) Housewife Jenn’s kids ended up with four leghorn chicks! Another family in our ward decided they didn’t need any extra chickens and gave Jenn’s family another two chicks! Since we were already building a coop for our chicks, we offered to let Jenn’s family’s chicks live with ours.
So here are the little chicks! Happy under their heat lamp and eating away! 🙂�
While our chicks were perfectly happy in the garage, in their tote…it quickly got too small for 12 chicks. As soon as they were ready, we transferred them to the backyard to a makeshift coop. I did not take a picture of the makeshift coop because…well it was pretty sad. It served it’s purpose and the chickens loved it but it was not anything you’d want to show off! With that in mind, Josh began the process of building a coop for our chickens. We saw a coop at IFA that we thought looked great! However, it was $600.00. As much as we liked our chickens…we didn’t $600.00 like them!
So Josh took a few measurements and we sketched out what we wanted for our chickens, using the IFA coop as inspiration. We took a trip to Lowe’s to price out our materials. We were lucky enough that we had left over wood, Jenn’s family had left over wood and a family a few houses down from us reroofed their house and donated their left over roofing supplies to us! It was our goal to use as many materials as we already had and keep the cost as low as possible!
Let me say now…Josh and I have never “built” anything. Really. This was quite an adventure for us (mostly Josh since he did almost all of the work) and I’m so happy with how it all turned out!
He started with the base for the coop itself. We wanted to make sure that there was enough clearance for the chickens to use under the coop as part of the chicken run.
He used four 3″ screws in each post to make sure it was nice and sturdy.
Wall framing almost done!
Look what happens when you start building a coop…your chickens start laying eggs! 🙂� (So far Jenn’s chickens are the only ones laying. Lucky for us, our chickens are DUAL chickens so if they don’t get to laying…they going to get to frying!)
The framing completed from two angles.
Up go the walls!
Putting in the hinged door for collecting eggs.
Getting the eggs out will be a breeze! 🙂�
A few angles of the walls all up and the plywood for the roof up. As you can see, our coop has skylights…that’s how we roll.
First coat of paint and the tar paper on the roof. You may wonder why we chose this color for the coop. Well to be completely honest, we picked colors we wanted to paint our house and figured the coop would be the perfect guinea pig to see if we like the colors! 🙂� The coop is Valspar’s Royal Gray. (I know, it looks blue to me too!)
For the door we chose Valspar’s Kettle Black. It has blue undertones so it goes really well with the Royal Gray.
The roof complete with the windows in. I’ve seen lots of super cute coops with real glass windows. It was less expensive ($1.29 a pane) to just use plexiglass. And it worked perfectly!
The coop with the final coat of paint, windows/hardware on and trim put up.
The door on the coop. We chose to put a large door on the side to make it easier to clean out for us. And I have to say that it makes it look way cuter! 🙂�
The Roosting bar inside the coop.
Trim all painted and mesh put around the bottom of the coop.
The nesting boxes. The only thing I didn’t get a picture of was the peel and stick tiles that we put on the bottom of the coop. They were only $0.02 a tile! I think we ended up using about 14 tiles.
The finished product with the happy chickens inside!
Another angle. After the coop itself was completed. Josh used 2 x 2’s and 2 x 3’s to build the frame for the yard and another, outdoor roosting bar. We also added in the ramp for the chickens to get into the coop. I’m super proud of Josh for all of his hard work and I’m really excited for how amazing it turned out!! Our total cost for the entire coop…every last nail, hinge, can of paint, everything was about $290.00. And the best part is the chicken coop and run are significantly bigger than the one at IFA. 🙂� So HUGE round of applause for Josh and the coop!
UPDATE: Hello dear readers!!! This has been a long time coming, but this post is going to get a HUGE revamp! With having babies and life getting in the way, I’ve neglected this post and getting out the information that I should. I am going to be working on updating this post with as much information on the building and materials as I can. We didn’t keep super great track of all the materials we used, but I will do the best I can to give you as much info as possible! Thank you all again for loving this project!
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A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Elim Alaska" into any one of the numerous search engines and a wealth of information will pop up. This information will provide links to other websites that will be informative and will provide the right direction for finding Elim Alaska chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Elim, Alaska With the substantial boost in poultry maintaining there has actually been a just as large rise in the array of poultry paraphernalia on sale. Chicken real estate is a case in factor. It's also a timeless example of the good old bandwagon being got on as various would-be chicken housing experts peddle a selection of accommodation claiming to be the optimal option to your chicken real estate requirements. Typically the price looks appealing, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks desirable, heck also the clean-cut family members standing there feeding the chickens look eye-catching. Undoubtedly they know a quality chicken house when they see one? There are lots of economical and also awful cages swamping the market. I understand this as I've checked a number of them in the field, and seen a ewe run straight via one when the feed container showed up. The result was nothing but a pricey stack of firewood and also a little group of bemused and also now homeless bantams.
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More often than not these standardized versions are constructed of rapid grown up timber - come the very first drop of rainfall they swell, leaving you either blockading a door that won't close, or tearing the doorway furnishings off in a vain attempt to launch the squawking occupants. The first cozy day indicates the wood dries and also fractures, the felt roofing bubbles and boils, and come nightfall the hens refuse to go in. This is not due to their dissatisfaction at the decline of their once appealing property yet since the hovel is now a place for, and also possibly abounding, the poultry keeper's bane, red mite. Add that it stated on the blurb that it would certainly match 4 big chickens when that equipping density was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and just what are you left with? A number of joints and some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to four birds need to cost you around ₤ 300 though this could depend on whether you choose for a totally free standing house or one with a run affixed. Assuming you are ranging your birds in a large area as well as the pop opening doorway is big enough for the breed you maintain, then the main demands of real estate come down to three factors which will certainly define the variety of birds the house will hold; perches, nest boxes and also air flow. Many types of chicken will perch when they visit roost in the evening, this perch must preferably be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off sides so the foot sits comfortably on it. The perch needs to be above the nest box access as chickens will certainly additionally normally try to find the highest point to perch. A perch lower than that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is incidentally when they create one of the most poo) resulting in dirtied eggs the list below day. They should not however be so high off the flooring of your home that leg injuries might happen when the bird gets down in the morning. Chickens need regarding 20cm of perch each (in tiny types this is obviously less), plus if more than one perch is set up in your home they should be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors yet are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Ideally your house ought to have a the very least one nest box for every three birds as well as these ought to be off the ground and also in the darkest location of your home. Your house should have appropriate ventilation: without it then condensation will certainly accumulate every night, also in the chilliest of climate. Understand, air flow works with the principle of cozy air leaving through a high space attracting cooler air in from a reduced space - it's not a collection of holes on opposite walls of your house and at the exact same degree, this is what's known as a draft. If you have a house with a run affixed after that the points above are still real, yet you should likewise take into consideration the run dimension. The EU maximum lawful equipping density for a complimentary range bird is (as well as let's face it, among the motivations for maintaining some chickens in your home is potentially boosted or better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's maximum one bird each 4m made even. Take a close consider several of the bargain residences - it could well be your house has the right perches, proper air flow and adequate nest boxes for a sensible variety of birds, but will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized item of ground to spend the day on? And so as the stating goes, "you get what you pay for". You could think you've grabbed a deal, but you as well as your flock might rue the day you did. Purchase the ideal house and also it will certainly last for a few years, otherwise longer provided the correct treatment. In the long run your poultry and also your chicken keeping encounter will be much the far better for it.coops coop
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