Chicken Coops for Sale in Waterford, Mississippi
Chicken Coops for Sale in Waterford, 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!
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Chicken Coop Door in Waterford, Mississippi
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Waterford 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 Waterford Mississippi chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Waterford, Mississippi With the huge boost in poultry maintaining there has been a just as huge surge in the range of poultry paraphernalia for sale. Poultry housing is a case in factor. It's additionally a timeless instance of the excellent old bandwagon being got on as various would-be fowl real estate experts market a selection of cottage declaring to be the suitable remedy to your chicken housing requirements. Commonly the price looks appealing, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks appealing, hell also the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Undoubtedly they know a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are numerous cheap as well as nasty cages swamping the marketplace. I recognize this as I've checked 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 an expensive heap of firewood and also a tiny flock of bemused as well as currently homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop On Wheels Designs in Waterford, Mississippi
Usually these standardized versions are built of rapid grown up wood - come the very first decrease of rainfall they swell, leaving you either blockading a door that will not shut, or ripping the door furniture off in a vain attempt to launch the squawking inhabitants. The first cozy day suggests the lumber dries out and also splits, the really felt roofing bubbles and boils, as well as come nightfall the chickens choose not to go in. This is not as a result of their disappointment at the decrease of their when attractive home but due to the fact that the hovel is currently a haven for, and probably abounding, the fowl keeper's nemesis, red mite. Add on that it stated on the blurb that it would match four big hens when that equipping density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and what are you entrusted? A couple of joints and also some kindling. A decent coop for thee to four birds must cost you around ₤ 300 though this could rely on whether you choose for a complimentary standing house or one with a run attached. Thinking you are varying your birds in a huge room as well as the pop hole door is big enough for the breed you maintain, after that the primary demands of housing come down to 3 factors which will certainly define the number of birds your home will hold; perches, nest boxes and ventilation. A lot of types of chicken will certainly perch when they go to roost during the night, this perch ought to preferably be 5-8cm broad with smoothed off edges so the foot rests pleasantly on it. The perch needs to be above the nest box entry as chickens will additionally normally search for the acme to perch. A perch less than that will have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is incidentally when they generate the most poo) resulting in stained eggs the following day. They shouldn't however be so high off the floor of your house that leg injuries might occur when the bird gets down in the morning. Chickens need about 20cm of perch each (in small breeds this is obviously less), plus if more than one perch is installed in your home they ought to be more than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their next-door neighbors yet are not that crazy about 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 every single three birds as well as these should be off the ground as well as in the darkest location of your house. Your home ought to have ample air flow: without it then condensation will build up every evening, even in the coldest of weather condition. Understand, ventilation deals with the principle of cozy air leaving via a high gap drawing cooler air in from a reduced space - it's not a set of openings on other walls of your home and at the very same level, this is what's known as a draught. If you have a house with a run connected then the points above are still true, yet you ought to additionally consider the run dimension. The EU optimum lawful stocking thickness for a free variety bird is (as well as let's encounter it, among the motivations for keeping some chickens in your home is perhaps improved or far better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird each 4m made even. Take a close take a look at some of the deal homes - it could well be your home has the best perches, correct ventilation as well as adequate nest boxes for an affordable number of birds, yet will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized piece of ground to spend the day on? Therefore as the stating goes, "you obtain just what you spend for". You could think you've got hold of a deal, however you and your flock could rue the day you did. Purchase the ideal house and it will certainly last for a few years, if not longer given the proper treatment. In the end your chicken as well as your chicken keeping encounter will certainly be considerably the much better for it.chickens coop
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