Chicken Coops for Sale in Monticello, Florida
Chicken Coops for Sale in Monticello, Florida
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 On Wheels in Monticello, Florida
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Monticello Florida" 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 Monticello Florida chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Monticello, Florida With the big rise in chicken maintaining there has actually been a similarly large increase in the range of chicken stuff for sale. Poultry housing is a situation in point. It's additionally a classic instance of the excellent old bandwagon being jumped on as different prospective chicken housing experts peddle a range of lodging claiming to be the ideal remedy to your chicken housing needs. Usually the price looks desirable, your house looks attractive, heck also the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look eye-catching. Definitely they know a quality chicken house when they see one? There are many cheap and horrible cages flooding the marketplace. I recognize this as I've tested a number of them in the area, and seen a ewe run straight through one when the feed container appeared. The result was only an expensive stack of fire wood as well as a small flock of bemused and also currently homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop On Wheels in Monticello, Florida
Generally these standardized versions are constructed of fast grown timber - come the first decrease of rainfall they swell, leaving you either defending a doorway that won't close, or ripping the doorway furnishings off in a vain effort to launch the squawking citizens. The first cozy day indicates the wood dries out and cracks, the felt roofing bubbles as well as boils, and come nightfall the hens choose not to enter. This is not because of their frustration at the decline of their once eye-catching home but since the hovel is now a place for, and most likely crawling with, the chicken keeper's bane, red mite. Add on that it claimed on the blurb that it would certainly fit 4 large hens when that stocking density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also exactly what are you left with? A couple of hinges and also some kindling. A decent coop for thee to 4 birds must cost you in the region of ₤ 300 though this can depend on whether you elect for a totally free standing house or one with a run attached. Thinking you are ranging your birds in a huge space and the pop hole door is big sufficient for the breed you keep, after that the major requirements of real estate come down to 3 points which will certainly specify the number of birds the house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. Most types of chicken will perch when they visit roost at night, this perch should ideally be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off edges so the foot sits conveniently on it. The perch ought to be more than the nest box entry as chickens will likewise naturally look for the highest point to perch. A perch below that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they produce one of the most poo) causing dirtied eggs the list below day. They shouldn't however be so high off the flooring of your house that leg injuries might occur when the bird gets down in the early morning. Chickens require about 20cm of perch each (in little types this is obviously much less), plus if more than one perch is mounted in the house they should be greater than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their next-door neighbors but are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Preferably your house must have a the very least one nest box for every three birds and also these ought to be off the ground and in the darkest area of your house. The house must have appropriate air flow: without it after that condensation will certainly develop every evening, also in the coldest of weather. Understand, ventilation works with the concept of cozy air leaving via a high space drawing cooler air in from a lower gap - it's not a set of holes on contrary walls of your house as well as at the exact same degree, this is what's referred to as a draft. If you have a house with a run affixed then the factors above are still true, yet you should also take into consideration the run size. The EU maximum lawful stocking thickness for a free array bird is (and let's encounter it, one of the inspirations for maintaining some hens at home is potentially enhanced or much better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m squared. Take a close take a look at a few of the deal homes - it could well be your house has the right perches, right air flow and enough nest boxes for an affordable variety of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized item of ground to spend the day on? Therefore as the claiming goes, "you obtain what you pay for". You could assume you've grabbed a bargain, however you as well as your group can rue the day you did. Acquisition the ideal house and also it will last for a couple of decades, if not longer provided the correct therapy. In the end your poultry and your poultry keeping experience will be a lot the much better for it.chicken chick
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