Chicken Coops for Sale in Coldiron, Kentucky
Chicken Coops for Sale in Coldiron, Kentucky
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 Tips in Coldiron, Kentucky
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Coldiron Kentucky" 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 Coldiron Kentucky chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Coldiron, Kentucky With the significant increase in poultry maintaining there has actually been an equally big rise in the range of fowl paraphernalia for sale. Chicken housing is a case in factor. It's also a classic instance of the great old bandwagon being jumped on as numerous prospective chicken real estate professionals market a variety of cottage declaring to be the excellent solution to your chicken real estate requirements. Often the price looks eye-catching, the house looks eye-catching, hell even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look appealing. Surely they understand a top quality chicken house when they see one? There are several economical as well as unpleasant cages swamping the marketplace. I know this as I've tested a variety of them in the field, and seen a ewe run directly through one when the feed pail appeared. The outcome was nothing but a costly stack of firewood as well as a little group of bemused and also now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Reviews in Coldiron, Kentucky
Generally these standardized designs are built of rapid grown up lumber - come the first decline of rain they swell, leaving you either defending a door that won't shut, or tearing the doorway furniture off in a vain effort to release the squawking residents. The initial warm day suggests the timber dries as well as splits, the really felt roof bubbles as well as boils, and come nightfall the chickens choose not to enter. This is not due to their frustration at the decline of their when desirable home however considering that the hovel is currently a place for, as well as most likely crawling with, the poultry keeper's bane, red mite. Add the fact that it stated on the blurb that it would suit 4 large hens when that equipping thickness was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, as well as what are you left with? A number of joints as well as some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to four birds ought to cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you choose for a totally free standing house or one with a run affixed. Assuming you are varying your birds in a big space and the pop opening door is big sufficient for the type you keep, then the major needs of housing come down to 3 points which will certainly define the number of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and also ventilation. Many types of chicken will certainly perch when they visit roost in the evening, this perch ought to preferably be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off edges so the foot sits conveniently on it. The perch needs to be above the nest box access as chickens will certainly additionally normally seek the highest point 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) causing stained eggs the following day. They shouldn't nevertheless be so high off the floor of your house that leg injuries can take place when the bird comes down in the morning. Chickens require about 20cm of perch each (in little breeds this is undoubtedly 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 yet are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Ideally your house ought to have a least one nest box for each three birds and these need to be off the ground and in the darkest location of the house. Your home must have appropriate ventilation: without it then condensation will accumulate every evening, even in the chilliest of weather condition. Realize, ventilation works with the concept of cozy air leaving via a high void attracting cooler air in from a lower void - it's not a collection of openings on contrary walls of the house and at the same degree, this is just what's known as a draft. If you have a house with a run connected then the factors above are still true, however you need to likewise take into consideration the run dimension. The EU maximum lawful stocking density for a totally free range bird is (and also allow's face it, one of the motivations for maintaining some chickens in the house is possibly enhanced or much better welfare) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's optimal one bird each 4m squared. Take a close look at several of the deal homes - it could well be your home has the appropriate perches, right ventilation as well as sufficient nest boxes for a reasonable variety of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized item of ground to invest the day on? And so as the saying goes, "you obtain just what you pay for". You could assume you've got hold of a bargain, however you and your flock can rue the day you did. Purchase the appropriate house as well as it will last for a few decades, if not longer given the correct treatment. Ultimately your poultry and also your fowl keeping encounter will certainly be a lot the much better for it.coops diy
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