Chicken Coops for Sale in Glandorf, Ohio
Chicken Coops for Sale in Glandorf, Ohio
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!
© The REAL Housewives of Riverton, 2011-2016. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s authors and/or owners is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to The REAL Housewives of Riverton with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Chicken Coop For Sale in Glandorf, Ohio
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Glandorf Ohio" 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 Glandorf Ohio chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Glandorf, Ohio With the substantial boost in chicken keeping there has been a just as large rise in the variety of chicken materiel for sale. Fowl real estate is a proceedings in factor. It's likewise a classic instance of the great old bandwagon being got on as different would-be chicken real estate professionals market an array of accommodation declaring to be the suitable option to your chicken real estate requirements. Usually the cost looks appealing, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks eye-catching, hell even the clean-cut family members standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Definitely they know a quality chicken house when they see one? There are numerous low-cost as well as unpleasant cages flooding the market. I know this as I've checked a number of them in the field, as well as seen a ewe run straight via one when the feed container showed up. The result was only a costly pile of firewood and a tiny group of bemused and currently homeless bantams.
Chicken House in Glandorf, Ohio
Typically these mass produced versions are built of quick grown up wood - come the very first decrease of rain they swell, leaving you either barricading a door that won't shut, or ripping the doorway furnishings off in a vain effort to launch the squawking residents. The very first warm and comfortable day implies the wood dries out and also splits, the felt roofing system bubbles as well as boils, and come nightfall the hens refuse to go in. This is not due to their frustration at the decline of their when appealing property however due to the fact that the hovel is now a place for, and possibly crawling with, the poultry keeper's nemesis, red mite. Add that it claimed on the blurb that it would fit four large chickens when that stocking thickness was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also what are you entrusted? A number of joints and some kindling. A good coop for thee to 4 birds ought to cost you around ₤ 300 though this can rely on whether you choose for a complimentary standing house or one with a run affixed. Assuming you are varying your birds in a big space and also the pop hole doorway is big sufficient for the type you maintain, then the major requirements of real estate boil down to three factors which will specify the number of birds your house will hold; perches, nest boxes and also ventilation. The majority of breeds of chicken will perch when they go to roost in the evening, this perch needs to preferably be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off edges so the foot sits conveniently on it. The perch ought to be above the nest box access as chickens will certainly additionally naturally search for the acme to perch. A perch lower than that will have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they create the most poo) resulting in soiled eggs the list below day. They shouldn't nevertheless be so high off the floor of the house that leg injuries might occur when the bird comes down in the early morning. Chickens need about 20cm of perch each (in little breeds this is clearly much less), plus if more than one perch is set up in your house they need to be greater than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their neighbors but are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Ideally your home needs to have a the very least one nest box for every three birds as well as these need to be off the ground and also in the darkest area of your house. The house ought to have adequate air flow: without it after that condensation will develop every night, even in the coldest of weather condition. Be aware, ventilation deals with the principle of warm air leaving with a high gap attracting cooler air in from a reduced space - it's not a collection of holes on other walls of your house and also at the very same level, this is exactly what's referred to as a draft. If you have a house with a run affixed after that the points above are still true, however you need to also take into consideration the run dimension. The EU maximum legal equipping density for a free range bird is (and also allow's encounter it, among the motivations for maintaining some chickens in your home is possibly boosted or far better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's maximum one bird each 4m squared. Take a close look at a few of the bargain homes - it could well be your house has the right perches, right ventilation and ample nest boxes for a practical number of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized piece of ground to invest the day on? And so as the saying goes, "you get just what you pay for". You could believe you've got a bargain, yet you and your flock might rue the day you did. Purchase the appropriate house and it will last for a couple of years, if not longer provided the right treatment. In the end your fowl and your fowl maintaining encounter will be a lot the much better for it.build diy
More Posts
Chicken Coops for Sale in Fredericktown, Ohio
Chicken Coops for Sale in Avon Lake, Ohio
Chicken Coops for Sale in Bolivar, Ohio
Chicken Coops for Sale in Clarksville, Ohio
Chicken Coops for Sale in Bowersville, Ohio