Chicken Coops for Sale in Cusseta, Georgia
Chicken Coops for Sale in Cusseta, Georgia
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 Cusseta Georgia" 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 Cusseta Georgia chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Cusseta, Georgia With the massive increase in chicken maintaining there has actually been a just as huge rise in the variety of fowl stuff for sale. Chicken real estate is a situation in factor. It's likewise a timeless instance of the excellent old bandwagon being got on as numerous potential chicken real estate experts market a range of lodging declaring to be the excellent remedy to your chicken housing requirements. Typically the cost looks desirable, your house looks attractive, hell even the clean-cut family members standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Surely they know a professional chicken house when they see one? There are numerous economical and nasty coops swamping the market. I understand this as I've tested a variety of them in the area, and seen a ewe run directly through one when the feed container appeared. The result was nothing but an expensive stack of fire wood as well as a tiny flock of bemused and currently homeless bantams.
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Generally these mass produced models are built of rapid grown up timber - come the initial decline of rainfall they swell, leaving you either fortifying a doorway that will not close, or tearing the door furniture off in a vain attempt to launch the squawking inhabitants. The initial warm day implies the lumber dries and fractures, the really felt roof bubbles as well as boils, and also come nightfall the chickens choose not to enter. This is not because of their frustration at the decrease of their when appealing building but considering that the hovel is now a haven for, as well as probably abounding, the chicken caretaker's nemesis, red mite. Add that it claimed on the blurb that it would certainly fit 4 huge chickens when that equipping density was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and exactly what are you entrusted? A couple of hinges and some kindling. A good coop for thee to four birds must cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this can depend on whether you elect for a totally free standing house or one with a run connected. Presuming you are varying your birds in a big room and also the pop hole doorway allows enough for the breed you keep, then the major needs of real estate boil down to 3 points which will certainly specify the variety of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. Most breeds of chicken will certainly perch when they go to roost during the night, this perch must preferably be 5-8cm large with smoothed off edges so the foot rests pleasantly on it. The perch must be above the nest box entrance as chickens will certainly also normally look for 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 create one of the most poo) causing dirtied eggs the following day. They shouldn't nevertheless be so high off the floor of your house that leg injuries could possibly take place when the bird comes down in the early morning. Chickens need concerning 20cm of perch each (in little types this is obviously less), plus if greater than one perch is installed in your home they ought to be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors but are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Ideally the house must have a the very least one nest box for every 3 birds and these must be off the ground as well as in the darkest area of your house. The house should have adequate air flow: without it then condensation will build up every night, also in the chilliest of weather. Realize, air flow deals with the concept of warm and comfortable air leaving with a high space drawing cooler air in from a lower void - it's not a collection of openings on other wall surfaces of your home and at the same degree, this is exactly what's referred to as a draft. If you have a house with a run affixed after that the factors above are still real, yet you must additionally think about the run dimension. The EU maximum lawful stocking density for a cost-free range bird is (as well as allow's face it, one of the inspirations for maintaining some chickens in the house is potentially improved or better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m settled. Take a close check out some of the bargain residences - it could well be your house has the right perches, correct air flow and adequate nest boxes for an affordable variety of birds, but will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized piece of ground to invest the day on? Therefore as the stating goes, "you get exactly what you spend for". You might think you've got a deal, but you and also your flock might rue the day you did. Acquisition the right house as well as it will last for a couple of years, if not longer given the correct therapy. In the long run your fowl as well as your fowl keeping encounter will certainly be considerably the far better for it.coops chick
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