Chicken Coops for Sale in Three Bridges, New Jersey
Chicken Coops for Sale in Three Bridges, New Jersey
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 Pallets in Three Bridges, New Jersey
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Three Bridges New Jersey" 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 Three Bridges New Jersey chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Three Bridges, New Jersey With the massive boost in poultry keeping there has actually been a similarly huge surge in the array of chicken stuff on sale. Fowl real estate is a proceedings in point. It's also a traditional instance of the great old bandwagon being got on as various would-be poultry real estate specialists peddle an array of cottage asserting to be the optimal solution to your chicken real estate demands. Usually the price looks attractive, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks eye-catching, heck even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look desirable. Undoubtedly they recognize a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are lots of economical and horrible coops flooding the market. I understand this as I've examined a number of them in the area, and also seen a ewe run straight via one when the feed bucket showed up. The result was nothing but an expensive heap of firewood as well as a small group of bemused and now homeless bantams.
Chicken House in Three Bridges, New Jersey
More often than not these mass produced models are built of quick grown hardwood - come the first decrease of rainfall they swell, leaving you either barricading a door that will not close, or ripping the door furniture off in a vain attempt to launch the squawking inhabitants. The first cozy day means the wood dries out as well as splits, the really felt roofing bubbles and also boils, and also come nightfall the hens refuse to go in. This is not due to their dissatisfaction at the decline of their once eye-catching building however because the hovel is now a haven for, as well as possibly abounding, the poultry keeper's bane, red mite. Add on that it stated on the blurb that it would fit 4 huge chickens when that stocking thickness was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also what are you left with? A few hinges and some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to 4 birds ought to cost you around ₤ 300 though this could rely on whether you elect for a complimentary standing house or one with a run attached. Thinking you are varying your birds in a big space as well as the pop opening doorway allows enough for the breed you maintain, then the major requirements of housing boil down to three points which will define the variety of birds your home will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. Most types of chicken will certainly perch when they go to roost at night, this perch needs to ideally be 5-8cm broad with smoothed off edges so the foot sits conveniently on it. The perch needs to be above the nest box access as chickens will certainly also normally try to find 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) causing stained eggs the list below day. They shouldn't however be so high off the flooring of your home that leg injuries could possibly occur when the bird gets down in the morning. Chickens need regarding 20cm of perch each (in little types this is clearly less), plus if more than one perch is set up in your house they ought to be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their neighbors however are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Ideally your home must have a least one nest box for every 3 birds and also these should be off the ground as well as in the darkest area of the house. The house should have appropriate ventilation: without it after that condensation will certainly develop every evening, even in the coldest of weather condition. Realize, air flow works on the concept of warm and comfortable air leaving via a high gap attracting cooler air in from a reduced space - it's not a collection of openings on other wall surfaces of your house as well as at the exact same level, this is what's referred to as a draft. If you have a house with a run connected after that the factors above are still real, yet you should likewise take into consideration the run size. The EU optimum legal stocking thickness for a complimentary array bird is (and allow's encounter it, among the inspirations for maintaining some hens at home is possibly improved or far better welfare) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m made even. Take a close check out some of the deal residences - it could well be the house has the ideal perches, right ventilation and enough nest boxes for a sensible variety of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized item of ground to invest the day on? And so as the saying goes, "you obtain what you spend for". You could assume you've got hold of a bargain, however you as well as your flock could possibly rue the day you did. Acquisition the ideal house and also it will certainly last for a couple of years, otherwise longer given the proper therapy. Ultimately your poultry and also your fowl maintaining encounter will certainly be a lot the much better for it.coops plan
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