Chicken Coops for Sale in Epping, New Hampshire
Chicken Coops for Sale in Epping, New Hampshire
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 Used in Epping, New Hampshire
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Epping New Hampshire" 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 Epping New Hampshire chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Epping, New Hampshire With the significant increase in poultry maintaining there has been a just as large surge in the range of poultry materiel on sale. Fowl housing is a case in factor. It's additionally a timeless example of the excellent old bandwagon being jumped on as various prospective fowl housing professionals peddle a variety of lodging declaring to be the excellent option to your chicken housing demands. Frequently the price looks desirable, the house looks eye-catching, heck even the clean-cut household standing there feeding the chickens look desirable. Undoubtedly they recognize a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are many affordable and also nasty cages swamping the marketplace. I recognize this as I've tested a variety of them in the field, and seen a ewe run straight with one when the feed bucket appeared. The outcome was just an expensive pile of firewood and also a tiny flock of bemused and now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Reviews in Epping, New Hampshire
Most of the time these standardized models are created of rapid grown up timber - come the first drop of rain they swell, leaving you either barricading a doorway that won't shut, or ripping the doorway furnishings off in a vain attempt to release the squawking residents. The first warm day implies the hardwood dries out as well as cracks, the really felt roofing bubbles as well as boils, and come nightfall the hens refuse to enter. This is not due to their dissatisfaction at the decline of their once eye-catching apartment however because the hovel is now a place for, and also probably abounding, the fowl caretaker's nemesis, red mite. Add on that it said on the blurb that it would fit four huge hens when that equipping density was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and what are you entrusted? A couple of joints and some kindling. A good coop for thee to four birds need to cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this can rely on whether you choose for a free standing house or one with a run affixed. Presuming you are varying your birds in a large area and also the pop opening doorway is big sufficient for the type you keep, then the primary requirements of real estate come down to 3 factors which will certainly define the number of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and ventilation. The majority of types of chicken will certainly perch when they visit roost during the night, this perch ought to ideally be 5-8cm large with smoothed off sides so the foot sits pleasantly on it. The perch ought to be more than the nest box access as chickens will certainly likewise normally look for the acme to perch. A perch lower than that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they create the most poo) bring about dirtied eggs the list below day. They shouldn't however be so high off the flooring of the house that leg injuries could possibly happen when the bird comes down in the morning. Chickens require about 20cm of perch each (in small breeds this is clearly much less), plus if greater than one perch is set up in the house they must be more than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their next-door neighbors however are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Preferably the house must have a the very least one nest box for each three birds and also these should be off the ground as well as in the darkest location of your house. The house needs to have adequate air flow: without it then condensation will certainly build up every evening, even in the coldest of weather. Realize, ventilation deals with the concept of warm and comfortable air leaving via a high space drawing cooler air in from a reduced void - it's not a set of openings on contrary wall surfaces of your home as well as at the very same level, this is what's called a draught. If you have a house with a run attached after that the factors above are still real, however you ought to additionally consider the run dimension. The EU optimum lawful stocking density for a cost-free array bird is (and also allow's encounter it, among the inspirations for maintaining some hens at home is possibly improved or much better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's maximum one bird each 4m made even. Take a close look at several of the deal homes - it could well be the house has the right perches, appropriate ventilation and ample nest boxes for a sensible variety 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 saying goes, "you get exactly what you pay for". You might think you've got a deal, yet you as well as your flock could possibly rue the day you did. Acquisition the best house and also it will last for a couple of decades, if not longer provided the right therapy. Ultimately your chicken as well as your chicken keeping experience will be a lot the better for it.chicken plan
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