Chicken Coops for Sale in Kemblesville, Pennsylvania
Chicken Coops for Sale in Kemblesville, 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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Baby Yellow Chick For Sale in Kemblesville, Pennsylvania
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Kemblesville 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 Kemblesville Pennsylvania chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Kemblesville, Pennsylvania With the big boost in poultry keeping there has been an equally large increase in the array of poultry stuff for sale. Poultry housing is an instance in factor. It's also a traditional instance of the good old bandwagon being got on as numerous potential poultry housing specialists market a range of accommodation declaring to be the excellent solution to your chicken real estate needs. Frequently the price looks eye-catching, the house looks desirable, hell even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Surely they know a top quality chicken house when they see one? There are numerous low-cost as well as horrible coops flooding the market. I understand this as I've tested a variety of them in the field, and also seen a ewe run straight with one when the feed container appeared. The outcome was only an expensive pile of firewood as well as a tiny flock of bemused and now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Construction in Kemblesville, Pennsylvania
Most of the time these mass produced versions are created of rapid grown up timber - come the first decrease of rainfall they swell, leaving you either fortifying a door that will not close, or tearing the doorway furnishings off in a vain effort to launch the squawking occupants. The initial warm day implies the lumber dries out and splits, the really felt roofing system bubbles as well as boils, and come nightfall the hens refuse to enter. This is not because of their frustration at the decline of their as soon as desirable home however since the hovel is now a place for, as well as possibly crawling with, the poultry caretaker's nemesis, red mite. Add that it stated on the blurb that it would fit 4 large chickens when that equipping density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, as well as what are you entrusted? A couple of hinges as well as some kindling. A respectable coop for thee to four birds need to cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this could rely on whether you choose for a cost-free standing house or one with a run attached. Presuming you are ranging your birds in a huge space and also the pop opening door is big sufficient for the type you maintain, then the major requirements of real estate boil down to three factors which will specify the variety of birds your home will hold; perches, nest boxes and ventilation. A lot of breeds of chicken will perch when they visit roost at night, this perch needs to ideally be 5-8cm vast with smoothed off sides so the foot rests conveniently on it. The perch ought to be more than the nest box entry as chickens will likewise naturally seek the highest point to perch. A perch below that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is by the way when they generate one of the most poo) leading to soiled eggs the list below day. They shouldn't however be so high off the flooring of the house that leg injuries can occur when the bird gets down in the early morning. Chickens require concerning 20cm of perch each (in small breeds this is clearly much less), plus if greater than one perch is installed in your home they ought to be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors yet are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Ideally the house must have a least one nest box for every three birds as well as these must be off the ground as well as in the darkest area of the house. The house ought to have ample ventilation: without it after that condensation will certainly build up every evening, even in the chilliest of weather. Know, ventilation works with the concept of warm and comfortable air leaving through a high gap drawing cooler air in from a reduced void - it's not a collection of openings on opposite wall surfaces of your home as well as at the same level, this is exactly what's known as a draft. If you have a house with a run attached then the factors above are still real, yet you need to also take into consideration the run dimension. The EU maximum legal equipping density for a cost-free range bird is (and allow's face it, one of the motivations for keeping some chickens at home is potentially boosted or far better well-being) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird each 4m squared. Take a close take a look at some of the deal homes - it could well be your home has the right perches, right air flow as well as ample nest boxes for an affordable variety of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized piece of ground to invest the day on? Therefore as the claiming goes, "you get exactly what you spend for". You may assume you've grabbed a bargain, but you as well as your group might rue the day you did. Acquisition the best house and it will certainly last for a few decades, if not longer offered the correct treatment. In the long run your fowl and also your poultry keeping encounter will certainly be considerably the better for it.diy coops
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