Chicken Coops for Sale in Bangor, Pennsylvania
Chicken Coops for Sale in Bangor, Pennsylvania
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 Run Plans in Bangor, Pennsylvania
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Bangor Pennsylvania" 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 Bangor Pennsylvania chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Bangor, Pennsylvania With the huge increase in chicken keeping there has been a just as big rise in the range of chicken paraphernalia for sale. Fowl real estate is a proceedings in factor. It's additionally a traditional instance of the excellent old bandwagon being jumped on as various prospective chicken real estate experts market a variety of accommodation declaring to be the perfect solution to your chicken real estate needs. Commonly the rate looks eye-catching, the house looks attractive, hell also the clean-cut household standing there feeding the chickens look appealing. Certainly they recognize a top quality chicken house when they see one? There are many affordable as well as nasty cages swamping the marketplace. I recognize this as I've examined a variety of them in the area, and also seen a ewe run straight through one when the feed bucket appeared. The outcome was only a pricey heap of fire wood and a little flock of bemused and now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coops For Sale in Bangor, Pennsylvania
More often than not these standardized designs are constructed of rapid grown up timber - come the first drop of rain they swell, leaving you either defending a doorway that will not close, or tearing the doorway furnishings off in a vain effort to release the squawking citizens. The first warm day implies the hardwood dries as well as splits, the really felt roof covering bubbles and boils, and come nightfall the chickens choose not to go in. This is not due to their dissatisfaction at the decrease of their when eye-catching property yet since the hovel is now a sanctuary for, and possibly crawling with, the chicken caretaker's bane, red mite. Add on the fact that it said on the blurb that it would fit 4 huge hens when that equipping density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and just what are you entrusted? A number of hinges and also some kindling. A good coop for thee to 4 birds should cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you elect for a free standing house or one with a run attached. Presuming you are ranging your birds in a big room and also the pop hole door is big sufficient for the breed you maintain, after that the major requirements of housing come down to 3 points which will certainly specify the number of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and ventilation. A lot of types of chicken will certainly perch when they visit roost during the night, this perch needs to ideally be 5-8cm vast with smoothed off sides so the foot sits comfortably on it. The perch must be higher than the nest box entry as chickens will certainly likewise naturally try to find the acme to perch. A perch below that will have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is incidentally when they produce one of the most poo) resulting in stained eggs the following day. They shouldn't nonetheless be so high off the flooring of your home that leg injuries can happen when the bird gets down in the early morning. Chickens need regarding 20cm of perch each (in tiny breeds this is certainly much less), plus if more than one perch is set up in the house they ought to be greater than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors however are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Ideally the house ought to have a the very least one nest box for each 3 birds and also these must be off the ground and also in the darkest location of your house. The house must have sufficient ventilation: without it then condensation will build up every night, even in the coldest of weather. Be aware, ventilation works on the concept of warm and comfortable air leaving through a high space attracting cooler air in from a lower gap - it's not a collection of openings on contrary walls of your house and at the very same degree, this is what's called a draft. If you have a house with a run affixed after that the points above are still true, yet you must likewise think about the run size. The EU optimum lawful stocking density for a complimentary array bird is (and allow's face it, one of the inspirations for keeping some hens in your home is perhaps enhanced or far better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m made even. Take a close consider a few of the bargain residences - it could well be your house has the ideal perches, proper ventilation and ample nest boxes for a sensible number of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized item of ground to spend the day on? Therefore as the stating goes, "you obtain what you pay for". You could assume you've got hold of a deal, however you and also your flock could possibly rue the day you did. Acquisition the best house and it will certainly last for a couple of decades, if not longer given the appropriate therapy. Eventually your chicken and also your chicken keeping encounter will be a lot the much better for it.coops chick
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