Chicken Coops for Sale in Richwood, Louisiana
Chicken Coops for Sale in Richwood, Louisiana
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 Run Ideas in Richwood, Louisiana
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Richwood Louisiana" 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 Richwood Louisiana chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Richwood, Louisiana With the substantial increase in poultry keeping there has been a just as big surge in the range of chicken materiel on sale. Fowl housing is a situation in point. It's additionally a traditional example of the good old bandwagon being got on as different prospective fowl housing experts pitch an array of lodging claiming to be the optimal remedy to your chicken housing demands. Typically the price looks appealing, the house looks appealing, hell even the clean-cut family members standing there feeding the chickens look eye-catching. Undoubtedly they recognize a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are many cheap and awful cages swamping the marketplace. I know this as I've checked a number of them in the area, and also seen a ewe run straight through one when the feed pail appeared. The result was just a costly stack of fire wood as well as a little group of bemused and also now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Designs in Richwood, Louisiana
More often than not these standardized versions are created of quick grown lumber - come the first decline of rainfall they swell, leaving you either defending a door that won't shut, or ripping the door furnishings off in a vain attempt to release the squawking residents. The very first warm and comfortable day implies the lumber dries out and fractures, the really felt roof bubbles as well as boils, and also come nightfall the hens refuse to go in. This is not because of their dissatisfaction at the decrease of their when desirable home but due to the fact that the hovel is now a haven for, and also possibly crawling with, the chicken keeper's nemesis, red mite. Add that it stated on the blurb that it would certainly match four big hens when that equipping thickness was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also what are you left with? A couple of joints and also some kindling. A decent coop for thee to four birds should cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you choose for a cost-free standing house or one with a run affixed. Thinking you are varying your birds in a huge room and the pop hole door is big sufficient for the type you keep, after that the primary requirements of real estate come down to 3 factors which will certainly define the variety of birds your home will hold; perches, nest boxes as well as air flow. A lot of types of chicken will certainly perch when they visit roost during the night, this perch should ideally be 5-8cm vast with smoothed off edges so the foot sits pleasantly on it. The perch needs to be above the nest box entry as chickens will certainly also normally seek the acme to perch. A perch lower than that will have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is incidentally when they produce one of the most poo) resulting in stained eggs the list below day. They shouldn't nonetheless be so high off the floor of your home that leg injuries can occur when the bird comes down in the morning. Chickens require regarding 20cm of perch each (in small types this is certainly less), plus if greater than one perch is mounted in your house they should be greater than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their neighbors however are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Ideally the house should have a the very least one nest box for each 3 birds and also these need to be off the ground and in the darkest area of your house. The house must have appropriate air flow: without it after that condensation will build up every evening, also in the chilliest of weather condition. Understand, ventilation deals with the concept of warm air leaving via a high space attracting cooler air in from a reduced void - it's not a collection of holes on other wall surfaces of your house and at the same level, this is what's called a draught. If you have a house with a run affixed after that the factors above are still real, yet you must also consider the run size. The EU maximum lawful equipping density for a totally free variety bird is (as well as let's face it, among the inspirations for keeping some hens in the house is possibly enhanced or much better welfare) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's maximum one bird per 4m squared. Take a close look at a few of the bargain homes - it could well be your home has the appropriate perches, right air flow and also adequate nest boxes for a reasonable number of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized item of ground to spend the day on? Therefore as the claiming goes, "you obtain what you spend for". You might assume you've got a deal, but you as well as your group could rue the day you did. Acquisition the best house and it will last for a few years, otherwise longer given the proper therapy. In the long run your poultry and your chicken keeping encounter will certainly be a lot the better for it.diy coop
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