Chicken Coops for Sale in Morning View, Kentucky
Chicken Coops for Sale in Morning View, 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 Setup in Morning View, Kentucky
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Morning View 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 Morning View Kentucky chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Morning View, Kentucky With the significant rise in chicken keeping there has been a just as huge rise in the range of poultry paraphernalia on sale. Fowl housing is a situation in point. It's additionally a timeless instance of the good old bandwagon being got on as numerous potential fowl housing specialists peddle a selection of cottage declaring to be the excellent solution to your chicken real estate requirements. Typically the rate looks attractive, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks appealing, hell also the clean-cut family members standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Surely they recognize a professional chicken house when they see one? There are several cheap as well as nasty coops flooding the market. I understand this as I've tested a number of them in the field, as well as seen a ewe run straight through one when the feed container appeared. The outcome was nothing but a costly heap of firewood and a small group of bemused and also now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Designs in Morning View, Kentucky
Usually these mass produced models are built of rapid grown timber - come the very first decline of rain they swell, leaving you either defending a doorway that will not shut, or ripping the doorway furnishings off in a vain effort to release the squawking inhabitants. The very first warm day means the hardwood dries out and also splits, the felt roofing bubbles and also boils, and also come nightfall the chickens choose not to enter. This is not as a result of their frustration at the decrease of their once attractive apartment yet considering that the hovel is currently a haven for, and also possibly abounding, the fowl caretaker's nemesis, red mite. Add the fact that it said on the blurb that it would match four large chickens when that stocking thickness was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and what are you entrusted? A number of joints and also some kindling. A suitable coop for thee to 4 birds need to cost you in the region of ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you choose for a cost-free standing house or one with a run connected. Assuming you are varying your birds in a big space and also the pop opening doorway allows sufficient for the breed you keep, then the major demands of housing come down to 3 points which will define the number of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. A lot of types of chicken will certainly perch when they go to roost during the night, this perch should ideally be 5-8cm large with smoothed off edges so the foot rests easily on it. The perch needs to be higher than the nest box entrance as chickens will likewise normally try to find the acme to perch. A perch below that will have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is incidentally when they generate the most poo) causing soiled eggs the following day. They should not nevertheless be so high off the flooring of the house that leg injuries could possibly happen when the bird gets down in the morning. Chickens need concerning 20cm of perch each (in small breeds this is certainly less), plus if greater than one perch is mounted in your house they must be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors yet are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Preferably your home must have a the very least one nest box for each three birds and these must be off the ground as well as in the darkest location of your home. The house needs to have adequate ventilation: without it then condensation will develop every night, even in the chilliest of weather condition. Know, air flow deals with the principle of warm and comfortable air leaving with a high gap drawing cooler air in from a lower void - it's not a set of holes on other walls of the house and at the same level, this is just what's known as a draught. If you have a house with a run attached after that the points above are still real, however you should likewise think about the run dimension. The EU maximum lawful stocking thickness for a complimentary range bird is (and let's encounter it, one of the inspirations for maintaining some chickens at home is potentially enhanced or far better well-being) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's optimal one bird each 4m settled. Take a close consider a few of the deal homes - it could well be the house has the appropriate perches, appropriate ventilation and also enough nest boxes for an affordable number of birds, but will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized item of ground to spend the day on? And so as the saying goes, "you obtain just what you spend for". You might assume you've got a bargain, however you and also your flock could possibly rue the day you did. Acquisition the appropriate house as well as it will last for a few decades, if not longer given the proper therapy. Eventually your chicken and also your chicken keeping encounter will certainly be much the better for it.plans chick
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