Chicken Coops for Sale in Sandoval, Illinois
Chicken Coops for Sale in Sandoval, Illinois
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 Build in Sandoval, Illinois
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Sandoval Illinois" 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 Sandoval Illinois chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Sandoval, Illinois With the big increase in chicken keeping there has actually been an equally big increase in the variety of chicken stuff on sale. Poultry real estate is a proceedings in point. It's also a timeless instance of the excellent old bandwagon being jumped on as different would-be fowl housing experts market an array of cottage asserting to be the excellent option to your chicken real estate needs. Usually the price looks appealing, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks attractive, heck also the clean-cut household standing there feeding the chickens look appealing. Certainly they know a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are numerous inexpensive and also horrible coops flooding the marketplace. I understand this as I've tested a number of them in the area, as well as seen a ewe run directly with one when the feed pail showed up. The result was just a costly stack of firewood and a small group of bemused as well as currently homeless bantams.
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Typically these mass produced designs are created of quick grown up timber - come the initial drop of rain they swell, leaving you either fortifying a doorway that will not close, or ripping the door furnishings off in a vain effort to launch the squawking inhabitants. The first warm and comfortable day suggests the lumber dries and splits, the felt roofing system bubbles and also boils, as well as come nightfall the hens choose not to go in. This is not due to their frustration at the decrease of their when desirable commercial property yet since the hovel is now a sanctuary for, and possibly abounding, the chicken keeper's bane, red mite. Add on that it claimed on the blurb that it would suit four big chickens when that stocking thickness was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also exactly what are you entrusted? A couple of hinges and some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to 4 birds need to cost you in the region of ₤ 300 though this can depend on whether you choose for a totally free standing house or one with a run connected. Thinking you are varying your birds in a big area and also the pop opening door allows sufficient for the type you maintain, after that the major requirements of real estate come down to 3 factors which will specify the variety of birds your home will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. Most types of chicken will perch when they visit roost during the night, this perch needs to ideally be 5-8cm vast with smoothed off edges so the foot rests easily on it. The perch should be more than the nest box entrance as chickens will also naturally seek the acme to perch. A perch below that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is incidentally when they create the most poo) causing stained eggs the list below day. They should not however be so high off the floor of your house that leg injuries could happen when the bird comes down in the early morning. Chickens need regarding 20cm of perch each (in tiny types this is undoubtedly much less), plus if greater than one perch is set up in the house they should be greater than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their next-door neighbors however are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Ideally your house needs to have a least one nest box for each 3 birds as well as these should be off the ground as well as in the darkest location of the house. Your home ought to have adequate ventilation: without it then condensation will build up every evening, also in the coldest of climate. Understand, air flow works with the concept of cozy air leaving with a high space attracting cooler air in from a lower gap - it's not a collection of holes on other walls of the house and also at the very same degree, this is exactly what's referred to as a draft. If you have a house with a run attached after that the factors above are still true, yet you should likewise consider the run size. The EU maximum legal stocking thickness for a totally free variety bird is (as well as let's encounter it, among the motivations for keeping some hens in your home is potentially improved or far better well-being) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m squared. Take a close take a look at a few of the bargain residences - it could well be your house has the ideal perches, proper air flow and also sufficient nest boxes for a sensible number of birds, yet will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized item of ground to spend the day on? And so as the claiming goes, "you obtain just what you pay for". You might believe you've got hold of a deal, but you and your group can rue the day you did. Purchase the right house and also it will certainly last for a couple of decades, if not longer given the right treatment. In the long run your fowl and your chicken keeping encounter will certainly be much the better for it.diy chickens
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