Chicken Coops for Sale in Sedan, New Mexico
Chicken Coops for Sale in Sedan, New Mexico
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 Plans in Sedan, New Mexico
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Sedan New Mexico" 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 Sedan New Mexico chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Sedan, New Mexico With the huge boost in chicken maintaining there has been a just as large increase in the array of fowl paraphernalia for sale. Fowl housing is an instance in factor. It's also a classic example of the great old bandwagon being got on as various would-be poultry housing specialists pitch a range of lodging asserting to be the ideal solution to your chicken real estate requirements. Commonly the price looks appealing, the house looks desirable, heck also the clean-cut household standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Certainly they know a professional chicken house when they see one? There are lots of inexpensive as well as nasty coops flooding the market. I recognize this as I've tested a number of them in the area, as well as seen a ewe run directly through one when the feed container appeared. The outcome was only an expensive heap of firewood as well as a tiny flock of bemused and currently homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Kit For 6 Chickens in Sedan, New Mexico
Typically these mass produced designs are built of rapid grown up timber - come the initial drop of rain they swell, leaving you either defending a door that won't close, or tearing the doorway furniture off in a vain effort to release the squawking inhabitants. The initial warm and comfortable day means the hardwood dries out and also fractures, the felt roofing system bubbles and boils, and also come nightfall the chickens refuse to enter. This is not because of their dissatisfaction at the decrease of their when attractive commercial property however since the hovel is now a sanctuary for, and also possibly abounding, the chicken keeper's bane, red mite. Add the fact that it stated on the blurb that it would suit 4 big chickens when that equipping thickness was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, as well as exactly what are you left with? A number of joints and some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to 4 birds need to cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this can rely on whether you elect for a free standing house or one with a run affixed. Presuming you are ranging your birds in a big room and the pop hole door is big enough for the breed you maintain, after that the main needs of housing boil down to three points which will specify the number of birds the house will hold; perches, nest boxes and also ventilation. Most breeds of chicken will perch when they go to roost at night, this perch should ideally be 5-8cm vast with smoothed off edges so the foot rests conveniently on it. The perch should be above the nest box access as chickens will additionally naturally search for the acme to perch. A perch lower than that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is by the way when they generate the most poo) leading to soiled eggs the following day. They shouldn't however be so high off the flooring of your house that leg injuries could happen when the bird gets down in the early morning. Chickens require concerning 20cm of perch each (in tiny types this is undoubtedly less), plus if greater than one perch is installed in your house they must be more than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their next-door neighbors however are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Ideally your home ought to have a least one nest box for each three birds as well as these should be off the ground and in the darkest location of the house. Your house should have sufficient ventilation: without it then condensation will develop every evening, also in the chilliest of weather condition. Understand, ventilation works with the principle of cozy air leaving via a high space attracting cooler air in from a reduced void - it's not a collection of holes on opposite wall surfaces of your house as well as at the very same level, this is what's known as a draft. If you have a house with a run connected after that the factors above are still real, however you need to also consider the run size. The EU optimum legal stocking density for a free range bird is (and also allow's encounter it, among the inspirations for keeping some chickens in your home is possibly improved or much better well-being) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m made even. Take a close consider several of the deal houses - it could well be the house has the appropriate perches, appropriate ventilation and also enough nest boxes for a reasonable number of birds, yet will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized piece of ground to spend the day on? Therefore as the claiming goes, "you get just what you spend for". You might think you've grabbed a deal, but you as well as your group could possibly rue the day you did. Acquisition the ideal house and it will last for a couple of decades, if not longer given the appropriate therapy. Eventually your chicken as well as your chicken maintaining encounter will be much the much better for it.plans for sale
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