Chicken Coops for Sale in Bucyrus, Kansas
Chicken Coops for Sale in Bucyrus, Kansas
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 House Plans in Bucyrus, Kansas
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Bucyrus Kansas" 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 Bucyrus Kansas chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Bucyrus, Kansas With the substantial boost in chicken keeping there has actually been a similarly huge surge in the variety of poultry stuff on sale. Chicken real estate is a case in point. It's also a traditional instance of the great old bandwagon being got on as various potential chicken real estate specialists market a selection of lodging asserting to be the perfect solution to your chicken housing demands. Typically the price looks desirable, the house looks appealing, hell even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look eye-catching. Certainly they know a professional chicken house when they see one? There are lots of economical and horrible coops swamping the marketplace. I recognize this as I've tested a number of them in the area, and also seen a ewe run directly through one when the feed container appeared. The outcome was just a pricey heap of fire wood as well as a little flock of bemused and now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop in Bucyrus, Kansas
Most of the time these standardized versions are built of rapid grown wood - come the very first decrease of rain they swell, leaving you either fortifying a door that won't shut, or ripping the door furnishings off in a vain attempt to launch the squawking citizens. The very first cozy day indicates the lumber dries out as well as splits, the felt roofing bubbles and boils, and come nightfall the hens choose not to enter. This is not because of their disappointment at the decline of their once desirable home yet since the hovel is now a sanctuary for, and probably crawling with, the poultry caretaker's bane, red mite. Add on that it claimed on the blurb that it would fit 4 big chickens when that equipping density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also exactly what are you entrusted? A couple of joints and also some kindling. A decent coop for thee to four birds should cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this can depend on whether you choose for a cost-free standing house or one with a run connected. Thinking you are varying your birds in a large area and the pop hole doorway is big sufficient for the breed you keep, after that the primary requirements of real estate boil down to 3 factors which will specify the variety of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes as well as air flow. The majority of breeds of chicken will perch when they go to roost at night, this perch should ideally be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off sides so the foot rests pleasantly on it. The perch must be above the nest box entry as chickens will likewise naturally try to find the acme to perch. A perch below that will have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they create one of the most poo) resulting in dirtied eggs the list below day. They shouldn't nonetheless be so high off the floor of the house that leg injuries could possibly occur when the bird gets down in the morning. Chickens require about 20cm of perch each (in little breeds this is obviously less), plus if more than one perch is set up in your home they should be more than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their neighbors but are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Preferably the house should have a least one nest box for each 3 birds and also these must be off the ground as well as in the darkest location of your house. Your home ought to have appropriate air flow: without it then condensation will develop every night, even in the coldest of climate. Understand, ventilation deals with the concept of warm and comfortable air leaving via a high void attracting cooler air in from a reduced gap - it's not a set of holes on opposite walls of your house and at the same level, this is exactly what's referred to as a draught. If you have a house with a run attached after that the points above are still true, however you should likewise take into consideration the run size. The EU maximum lawful equipping thickness for a complimentary range bird is (as well as let's encounter it, among the inspirations for maintaining some chickens at home is possibly boosted or better well-being) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's maximum one bird per 4m squared. Take a close take a look at several of the deal homes - it could well be your house has the ideal perches, appropriate ventilation and also ample nest boxes for a reasonable number of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized piece of ground to invest the day on? And so as the claiming goes, "you obtain exactly what you spend for". You might believe you've grabbed a bargain, but you and your group could possibly rue the day you did. Purchase the ideal house and also it will last for a few decades, otherwise longer provided the appropriate therapy. In the long run your poultry and your fowl maintaining experience will be a lot the much better for it.coops chicken
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