Chicken Coops for Sale in Coldwater, Mississippi
Chicken Coops for Sale in Coldwater, Mississippi
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!
© The REAL Housewives of Riverton, 2011-2016. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s authors and/or owners is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to The REAL Housewives of Riverton with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Chicken Coop Boxes in Coldwater, Mississippi
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Coldwater Mississippi" 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 Coldwater Mississippi chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Coldwater, Mississippi With the significant boost in poultry maintaining there has actually been a just as huge increase in the array of chicken stuff on sale. Fowl real estate is a situation in point. It's likewise a classic instance of the excellent old bandwagon being jumped on as different would-be fowl real estate professionals peddle a variety of cottage asserting to be the suitable solution to your chicken housing demands. Typically the rate looks attractive, your house looks eye-catching, heck also the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look eye-catching. Undoubtedly they recognize a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are numerous inexpensive as well as horrible coops swamping the market. I recognize this as I've examined a number of them in the area, and seen a ewe run directly with one when the feed pail appeared. The result was just an expensive stack of fire wood as well as a little group of bemused and also now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop in Coldwater, Mississippi
Generally these mass produced models are created of fast grown wood - come the first decrease of rain they swell, leaving you either defending a doorway that won't shut, or tearing the doorway furnishings off in a vain attempt to launch the squawking occupants. The very first warm day suggests the hardwood dries and also splits, the felt roofing bubbles and also boils, and also come nightfall the hens refuse to enter. This is not because of their disappointment at the decline of their once attractive commercial property however since the hovel is now a haven for, and probably crawling with, the chicken caretaker's nemesis, red mite. Add on that it claimed on the blurb that it would match 4 huge chickens when that equipping density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, as well as just what are you left with? A number of hinges and some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to four birds ought to cost you around ₤ 300 though this can depend upon whether you elect for a totally free standing house or one with a run affixed. Thinking you are ranging your birds in a large room and the pop hole doorway is big sufficient for the breed you keep, then the main needs of housing boil down to three factors which will certainly specify the number of birds the house will hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. Many types of chicken will perch when they go to roost in the evening, this perch should ideally be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off edges so the foot rests comfortably on it. The perch must be higher than the nest box entry as chickens will certainly also naturally try to find the highest point to perch. A perch lower than that will have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is incidentally when they generate one of the most poo) leading to soiled eggs the list below day. They shouldn't nevertheless be so high off the flooring of your house that leg injuries can occur when the bird comes down in the morning. Chickens need concerning 20cm of perch each (in small types this is undoubtedly less), plus if greater than one perch is set up in the house they ought to be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their neighbors however are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Preferably your home should have a the very least one nest box for each 3 birds and also these ought to be off the ground and also in the darkest location of your house. Your house should have sufficient air flow: without it after that condensation will build up every night, also in the chilliest of weather. Know, air flow works on the principle of warm air leaving through a high void drawing cooler air in from a reduced space - it's not a collection of openings on opposite walls of your home as well as at the very same level, this is just what's known as a draft. If you have a house with a run attached after that the factors above are still real, however you need to additionally consider the run size. The EU maximum legal equipping density for a free range bird is (as well as let's face it, one of the inspirations for keeping some chickens in the house is perhaps improved or much better well-being) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's maximum one bird per 4m settled. Take a close check out several of the deal homes - it could well be your house has the best perches, proper air flow and also adequate nest boxes for a sensible variety of birds, yet 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 get what you spend for". You could believe you've got a deal, yet you and also your flock might rue the day you did. Purchase the ideal house as well as it will last for a few years, otherwise longer given the appropriate therapy. In the end your fowl and your poultry keeping experience will be considerably the far better for it.build coops
More Posts
Chicken Coops for Sale in Bruce, Mississippi
Chicken Coops for Sale in Ashland, Mississippi
Chicken Coops for Sale in Brooksville, Mississippi
Chicken Coops for Sale in Blue Springs, Mississippi
Chicken Coops for Sale in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi