Chicken Coops for Sale in Toast, North Carolina
Chicken Coops for Sale in Toast, North Carolina
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 Amazon in Toast, North Carolina
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Toast North Carolina" 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 Toast North Carolina chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Toast, North Carolina With the significant increase in chicken keeping there has actually been a just as huge increase in the array of fowl materiel on sale. Fowl housing is a proceedings in factor. It's also a traditional instance of the great old bandwagon being jumped on as different potential chicken housing professionals pitch a variety of holiday accommodation asserting to be the perfect solution to your chicken real estate needs. Frequently the rate looks desirable, the house looks attractive, hell also the clean-cut household standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Undoubtedly they know a quality chicken house when they see one? There are numerous low-cost and also awful cages swamping the marketplace. I recognize this as I've tested a number of them in the field, and also seen a ewe run straight through one when the feed container appeared. The outcome was nothing but an expensive heap of fire wood and a tiny flock of bemused and currently homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop On Trailer in Toast, North Carolina
Most of the time these mass produced models are built of rapid grown wood - come the initial decline of rain they swell, leaving you either blockading a doorway that will not shut, or ripping the doorway furniture off in a vain effort to launch the squawking residents. The initial warm and comfortable day means the wood dries out and cracks, the felt roof bubbles and also boils, and come nightfall the chickens refuse to go in. This is not due to their disappointment at the decline of their as soon as desirable building yet due to the fact that the hovel is now a sanctuary for, and also most likely crawling with, the chicken caretaker's bane, red mite. Add that it said on the blurb that it would suit 4 large hens when that equipping density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and what are you left with? A few hinges and some kindling. A good coop for thee to 4 birds ought to cost you in the region of ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you elect for a cost-free standing house or one with a run attached. Presuming you are varying your birds in a large space and also the pop opening door allows enough for the breed you keep, then the major demands of real estate come down to 3 factors which will certainly specify the number of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and also air flow. Many 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 sides so the foot rests comfortably on it. The perch ought to be above the nest box entrance as chickens will certainly additionally naturally look for the acme to perch. A perch less than that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is incidentally when they create the most poo) bring about stained eggs the list below day. They shouldn't nevertheless be so high off the flooring of your house that leg injuries could possibly happen when the bird gets down in the morning. Chickens require concerning 20cm of perch each (in little types this is clearly less), plus if more than one perch is set up in your house they must be greater than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their next-door neighbors but are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Ideally your home ought to have a the very least one nest box for each 3 birds as well as these ought to be off the ground and in the darkest area of your home. Your house needs to have sufficient ventilation: without it then condensation will certainly accumulate every night, also in the chilliest of weather condition. Realize, air flow deals with the concept of warm and comfortable air leaving via a high gap drawing cooler air in from a lower void - it's not a collection of holes on opposite wall surfaces of your home and at the exact same level, this is exactly what's known as a draft. If you have a house with a run attached after that the factors above are still true, but you need to additionally take into consideration the run dimension. The EU maximum legal equipping thickness for a complimentary variety bird is (and also let's face it, among the inspirations for keeping some hens at home is possibly enhanced or better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's maximum one bird each 4m settled. Take a close take a look at some of the bargain houses - it could well be the house has the appropriate perches, right air flow and enough nest boxes for a reasonable variety of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized piece of ground to spend the day on? Therefore as the stating goes, "you get exactly what you pay for". You may believe you've got hold of a bargain, but you as well as your flock could rue the day you did. Purchase the ideal house and also it will last for a few decades, if not longer given the proper treatment. Ultimately your poultry and your chicken keeping encounter will certainly be a lot the much better for it.for sale for sale
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