Chicken Coops for Sale in South Canaan, Pennsylvania
Chicken Coops for Sale in South Canaan, 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!
© 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 Building Plans in South Canaan, Pennsylvania
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in South Canaan 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 South Canaan Pennsylvania chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in South Canaan, Pennsylvania With the substantial rise in chicken maintaining there has been a just as large rise in the variety of poultry materiel for sale. Chicken housing is a proceedings in factor. It's likewise a traditional instance of the good old bandwagon being got on as various potential fowl real estate experts pitch an array of accommodation declaring to be the excellent remedy to your chicken housing requirements. Commonly the price looks attractive, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks appealing, hell even the clean-cut family members standing there feeding the chickens look desirable. Definitely they know a professional chicken house when they see one? There are lots of cheap and nasty cages flooding the marketplace. I know this as I've examined a number of them in the field, and also seen a ewe run directly via one when the feed bucket appeared. The result was only a costly stack of firewood as well as a little group of bemused as well as now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop House in South Canaan, Pennsylvania
More often than not these standardized models are created of rapid grown up wood - come the first decline of rainfall they swell, leaving you either fortifying a doorway that won't close, or ripping the door furniture off in a vain attempt to release the squawking citizens. The initial warm day means the wood dries and cracks, the really felt roofing bubbles and boils, and also come nightfall the hens refuse to enter. This is not as a result of their dissatisfaction at the decrease of their as soon as appealing building however considering that the hovel is now a haven for, and also most likely crawling with, the fowl keeper's bane, red mite. Add on the fact that it claimed on the blurb that it would suit four large hens when that equipping thickness was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and also just what are you entrusted? A number of joints as well as some kindling. A good coop for thee to four birds need to cost you in the region of ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you choose for a totally free standing house or one with a run connected. Assuming you are varying your birds in a big area as well as the pop opening door is big sufficient for the breed you maintain, after that the major needs of real estate boil down to three points which will specify the number of birds your home will hold; perches, nest boxes and also air flow. The majority of types of chicken will perch when they visit roost during the night, this perch must preferably be 5-8cm broad with smoothed off sides so the foot rests easily on it. The perch should be higher than the nest box entrance as chickens will certainly likewise normally search for the acme to perch. A perch below that will have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is by the way when they create the most poo) bring about dirtied eggs the list below day. They shouldn't however be so high off the flooring of your house that leg injuries can happen when the bird comes down in the early morning. Chickens need regarding 20cm of perch each (in little types this is obviously less), plus if more than one perch is installed in the house they need to be more than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their next-door neighbors however are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird in front. Preferably the house must have a the very least one nest box for every three birds and also these ought to be off the ground and also in the darkest location of your house. Your home ought to have adequate ventilation: without it after that condensation will certainly develop every evening, even in the coldest of weather condition. Know, ventilation works on the concept of cozy air leaving with a high space attracting cooler air in from a reduced void - it's not a collection of holes on contrary wall surfaces of your house and also at the same level, this is just what's referred to as a draft. If you have a house with a run connected after that the points above are still real, yet you should likewise think about the run size. The EU maximum legal stocking density for a free variety bird is (and also let's face it, among the inspirations for maintaining some hens in your home is perhaps enhanced or better well-being) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's maximum one bird per 4m made even. Take a close take a look at a few of the bargain residences - it could well be your home has the right perches, right air flow as well as enough nest boxes for an affordable number of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized piece of ground to invest the day on? And so as the stating goes, "you get just what you spend for". You could believe you've got hold of a bargain, but you as well as your group can rue the day you did. Acquisition the appropriate house as well as it will certainly last for a few years, if not longer offered the correct therapy. Eventually your poultry and your fowl keeping encounter will certainly be much the better for it.coops coop
More Posts
Chicken Coops for Sale in Everett, Pennsylvania
Chicken Coops for Sale in Morton, Pennsylvania
Chicken Coops for Sale in Robertsdale, Pennsylvania
Chicken Coops for Sale in New Park, Pennsylvania
Chicken Coops for Sale in Reading, Pennsylvania