Chicken Coops for Sale in Windham, Ohio
Chicken Coops for Sale in Windham, 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!
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Chicken Coop Tips in Windham, Ohio
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Windham 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 Windham Ohio chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Windham, Ohio With the huge increase in poultry maintaining there has been a just as large surge in the array of fowl stuff on sale. Chicken real estate is a case in factor. It's also a traditional instance of the excellent old bandwagon being got on as numerous potential fowl real estate specialists market an array of holiday accommodation claiming to be the excellent solution to your chicken real estate demands. Typically the price looks attractive, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks eye-catching, hell also the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look desirable. Surely they recognize a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are several low-cost as well as unpleasant cages swamping the marketplace. I understand this as I've examined a number of them in the area, and seen a ewe run straight through one when the feed pail showed up. The result was nothing but a pricey pile of firewood as well as a tiny flock of bemused as well as now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop On Wheels in Windham, Ohio
Most of the time these standardized versions are constructed of rapid grown up lumber - come the first decrease of rainfall they swell, leaving you either defending a door that won't close, or tearing the doorway furniture off in a vain attempt to launch the squawking citizens. The first warm day suggests the hardwood dries and also cracks, the really felt roofing system bubbles and also boils, and also come nightfall the chickens refuse to go in. This is not because of their dissatisfaction at the decrease of their when desirable home yet since the hovel is currently a haven for, and also probably abounding, the poultry caretaker's nemesis, red mite. Add that it said on the blurb that it would certainly match 4 large hens when that equipping thickness was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also just what are you left with? A number of joints and some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to four birds need to cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this can depend on whether you elect for a cost-free standing house or one with a run attached. Thinking you are ranging your birds in a huge space and also the pop hole door allows sufficient for the type you keep, then the main demands of real estate come down to 3 points which will certainly define the number of birds your house will hold; perches, nest boxes as well as air flow. Most types of chicken will perch when they go to roost during the night, this perch should preferably be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off sides so the foot sits easily on it. The perch should be above the nest box access as chickens will certainly likewise normally try to find the highest point to perch. A perch below that will have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they create one of the most poo) resulting in stained eggs the following day. They should not nonetheless be so high off the flooring of your house that leg injuries can occur when the bird gets down in the early morning. Chickens need about 20cm of perch each (in little types this is clearly much less), plus if greater than one perch is mounted in your house they need to be greater than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors but are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Preferably your house ought to have a the very least one nest box for every single 3 birds and also these need to be off the ground and in the darkest location of the house. Your home needs to have appropriate air flow: without it after that condensation will certainly develop every night, even in the coldest of weather condition. Know, ventilation deals with the principle of cozy air leaving through a high gap attracting cooler air in from a reduced void - it's not a set of holes on opposite walls of your home and also at the very same level, this is just what's referred to as a draught. If you have a house with a run connected after that the factors above are still real, however you ought to likewise think about the run size. The EU maximum lawful stocking density for a free array bird is (as well as allow's encounter it, one of the motivations for maintaining some chickens at home is possibly enhanced or better welfare) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's maximum one bird per 4m made even. Take a close look at a few of the bargain houses - it could well be the house has the right perches, proper air flow and enough nest boxes for a practical variety of birds, but will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized item of ground to invest the day on? And so as the stating goes, "you obtain exactly what you pay for". You could think you've got a bargain, yet you and your flock could rue the day you did. Acquisition the right house and also it will certainly last for a couple of decades, if not longer offered the proper treatment. Eventually your poultry and your poultry keeping experience will be considerably the far better for it.diy for sale
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