Chicken Coops for Sale in Port Hueneme, California
Chicken Coops for Sale in Port Hueneme, 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 Ebay in Port Hueneme, California
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Port Hueneme 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 Port Hueneme California chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Port Hueneme, California With the big rise in poultry maintaining there has been a just as big increase in the range of chicken stuff for sale. Chicken housing is an instance in factor. It's likewise a timeless instance of the great old bandwagon being got on as different would-be poultry real estate experts market an array of lodging declaring to be the optimal option to your chicken housing needs. Commonly the cost looks appealing, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks desirable, heck also the clean-cut household standing there feeding the chickens look appealing. Undoubtedly they recognize a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are lots of inexpensive as well as nasty coops swamping the market. I recognize this as I've checked a number of them in the area, and seen a ewe run straight via one when the feed pail showed up. The result was nothing but an expensive heap of firewood and a tiny flock of bemused and now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Blueprints in Port Hueneme, California
Usually these mass produced designs are created of fast grown up wood - come the very first drop of rain they swell, leaving you either defending a doorway that will not shut, or tearing the doorway furnishings off in a vain effort to launch the squawking inhabitants. The initial warm and comfortable day suggests the wood dries as well as splits, the felt roof covering bubbles as well as boils, as well as come nightfall the hens refuse to go in. This is not because of their dissatisfaction at the decline of their when appealing home however since the hovel is currently a place for, as well as probably abounding, the fowl keeper's nemesis, red mite. Add on the fact that it claimed on the blurb that it would match four huge chickens when that stocking density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also exactly what are you entrusted? A couple of joints as well as some kindling. A decent coop for thee to four birds should cost you in the region of ₤ 300 though this could depend on whether you choose for a totally free standing house or one with a run attached. Thinking you are ranging your birds in a big room as well as the pop opening door is big enough for the breed you keep, then the major demands of real estate come down to three points which will certainly specify the variety of birds your home will hold; perches, nest boxes and ventilation. The majority of breeds of chicken will certainly perch when they visit roost in the evening, this perch should ideally be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off edges so the foot rests easily on it. The perch should be higher than the nest box entrance as chickens will certainly also normally seek the acme to perch. A perch less than that will have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they generate one of the most poo) leading to dirtied eggs the following day. They should not nevertheless be so high off the flooring of your home that leg injuries could take place when the bird comes down in the early morning. Chickens need regarding 20cm of perch each (in tiny types this is clearly much less), plus if more than one perch is mounted in the house they must be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors however are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Preferably your home must have a the very least one nest box for every single three birds as well as these need to be off the ground and also in the darkest location of your house. The house needs to have adequate ventilation: without it after that condensation will build up every night, also in the coldest of climate. Be aware, air flow works with the concept of cozy air leaving with a high void attracting cooler air in from a reduced gap - it's not a collection of openings on contrary wall surfaces of your home and at the very same level, this is just what's called a draft. If you have a house with a run connected then the factors above are still true, however you need to additionally take into consideration the run dimension. The EU optimum lawful stocking density for a totally free array bird is (as well as let's encounter it, among the inspirations for keeping some hens in your home is perhaps boosted or much better well-being) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird each 4m squared. Take a close consider a few of the deal homes - it could well be the house has the best perches, appropriate ventilation and also adequate nest boxes for a sensible variety of birds, but will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized piece of ground to spend the day on? And so as the saying goes, "you obtain exactly what you spend for". You may think you've got a bargain, but you and also your flock can rue the day you did. Purchase the best house as well as it will certainly last for a couple of years, otherwise longer offered the correct therapy. Eventually your fowl and your poultry maintaining experience will certainly be much the much better for it.for sale plan
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