Chicken Coops for Sale in Franklin, Missouri
Chicken Coops for Sale in Franklin, Missouri
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 Adelaide in Franklin, Missouri
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Franklin Missouri" 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 Franklin Missouri chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Franklin, Missouri With the big increase in poultry maintaining there has actually been an equally huge surge in the array of chicken paraphernalia on sale. Poultry housing is a case in point. It's additionally a timeless example of the great old bandwagon being got on as various would-be fowl housing experts pitch a selection of lodging declaring to be the suitable solution to your chicken housing needs. Typically the rate looks desirable, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks desirable, heck even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Definitely they recognize a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are numerous inexpensive and also unpleasant coops flooding the marketplace. I recognize this as I've tested a number of them in the area, and seen a ewe run straight via one when the feed bucket appeared. The result was just a pricey stack of fire wood as well as a little group of bemused and also now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop For Sale in Franklin, Missouri
Usually these standardized designs are created of quick grown up lumber - come the first decline of rain they swell, leaving you either barricading a doorway that won't shut, or tearing the doorway furnishings off in a vain effort to release the squawking residents. The first warm day suggests the lumber dries and also fractures, the really felt roof covering bubbles as well as boils, and come nightfall the chickens choose not to go in. This is not due to their disappointment at the decrease of their when attractive commercial property however considering that the hovel is currently a place for, and possibly abounding, the fowl caretaker's nemesis, red mite. Add on that it stated on the blurb that it would suit four big chickens when that equipping density was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also just what are you left with? A number of joints and also some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to four birds should cost you around ₤ 300 though this can rely on whether you elect for a cost-free standing house or one with a run affixed. Presuming you are varying your birds in a huge room as well as the pop hole door is big sufficient for the breed you keep, after that the primary requirements of real estate boil down to 3 factors which will certainly define the variety of birds your home will hold; perches, nest boxes and also air flow. Most types of chicken will perch when they visit roost during the night, this perch needs to preferably be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off sides so the foot sits easily on it. The perch must be above the nest box entry as chickens will likewise normally seek the highest point to perch. A perch less than that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they generate one of the most poo) bring about soiled eggs the following day. They should not nevertheless be so high off the flooring of your house that leg injuries could possibly occur when the bird gets down in the early morning. Chickens require concerning 20cm of perch each (in small types this is obviously much less), plus if more than one perch is mounted in the house they should be greater 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 ahead. Preferably your home needs to have a the very least one nest box for each three birds and these must be off the ground and in the darkest location of the house. Your house ought to have adequate air flow: without it after that condensation will certainly build up every night, even in the coldest of weather condition. Understand, ventilation works on the principle of cozy air leaving through a high space attracting cooler air in from a lower void - it's not a set of holes on opposite walls of the house as well as at the very same degree, this is what's referred to as a draught. If you have a house with a run affixed then the factors above are still real, but you must also think about the run size. The EU optimum legal stocking thickness for a totally free array bird is (and also let's face it, one of the inspirations for maintaining some chickens at home is possibly improved or far better well-being) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's maximum one bird each 4m squared. Take a close check out several of the bargain residences - it could well be your house has the ideal perches, proper air flow and ample 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 stating goes, "you obtain exactly what you spend for". You might assume you've got a bargain, but you and your flock might rue the day you did. Acquisition the appropriate house and it will certainly last for a couple of decades, if not longer provided the proper treatment. In the long run your chicken and your fowl keeping encounter will certainly be a lot the much better for it.chickens chickens
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