Chicken Coops for Sale in Jolon, California
Chicken Coops for Sale in Jolon, California
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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Chicken Coop Run in Jolon, California
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Jolon California" 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 Jolon California chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Jolon, California With the significant increase in chicken maintaining there has actually been an equally large rise in the array of poultry stuff on sale. Chicken housing is a situation in factor. It's also a classic instance of the great old bandwagon being jumped on as numerous prospective chicken real estate experts pitch a range of holiday accommodation declaring to be the suitable remedy to your chicken housing requirements. Frequently the rate looks desirable, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks desirable, hell even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look eye-catching. Undoubtedly they recognize a top quality chicken house when they see one? There are many cheap and horrible coops swamping the market. I understand this as I've examined a variety of them in the area, and seen a ewe run directly with one when the feed pail showed up. The result was nothing but a costly stack of fire wood and also a small group of bemused and now homeless bantams.
Baby Chicks in Jolon, California
Typically these standardized versions are constructed of rapid grown wood - come the initial drop of rain they swell, leaving you either barricading a doorway that won't close, or tearing the doorway furniture off in a vain attempt to release the squawking occupants. The very first cozy day indicates the hardwood dries out and also splits, the felt roof bubbles and boils, and also come nightfall the hens choose not to enter. This is not because of their frustration at the decline of their once desirable building yet considering that the hovel is currently a haven for, and probably abounding, the chicken keeper's bane, red mite. Add that it claimed on the blurb that it would fit 4 huge hens when that stocking thickness was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, as well as just what are you entrusted? A few joints and some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to four birds must cost you in the region of ₤ 300 though this could rely on whether you choose for a totally free standing house or one with a run affixed. Thinking you are varying your birds in a big room and also the pop opening door allows enough for the type you keep, after that the major requirements of housing boil down to 3 points which will define the variety of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. Many types of chicken will certainly perch when they go to roost during the night, this perch needs to ideally be 5-8cm broad with smoothed off edges so the foot rests pleasantly on it. The perch must be above the nest box access as chickens will certainly additionally naturally seek the highest point to perch. A perch below that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is by the way when they produce one of the most poo) bring about dirtied eggs the list below day. They should not nevertheless be so high off the flooring of your home that leg injuries might happen when the bird gets down in the early morning. Chickens require about 20cm of perch each (in small types this is undoubtedly much less), plus if greater than one perch is mounted in the house they must be greater than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their neighbors yet are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Ideally the house ought to have a the very least one nest box for each three birds as well as these need to be off the ground as well as in the darkest area of your house. Your home needs to have ample ventilation: without it then condensation will accumulate every night, even in the coldest of weather condition. Know, air flow deals with the concept of cozy air leaving with a high void attracting cooler air in from a lower space - it's not a collection of openings on other walls of your house and also at the same degree, this is just what's called a draught. If you have a house with a run connected then the factors above are still true, however you should additionally think about the run size. The EU maximum legal equipping thickness for a free array bird is (and let's encounter it, one of the inspirations for maintaining some hens in the house is possibly enhanced or far better well-being) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m squared. Take a close check out some of the deal residences - it could well be your house has the best perches, right ventilation and also sufficient nest boxes for a practical number of birds, yet will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized piece of ground to spend the day on? And so as the stating goes, "you get what you pay for". You may think you've got a bargain, however you as well as your flock might rue the day you did. Acquisition the best house and also it will last for a couple of years, otherwise longer given the appropriate treatment. Eventually your poultry and your chicken maintaining encounter will certainly be considerably the far better for it.chick chicken
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