Chicken Coops for Sale in Sellers, South Carolina
Chicken Coops for Sale in Sellers, South Carolina
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 House in Sellers, South Carolina
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Sellers South Carolina" 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 Sellers South Carolina chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Sellers, South Carolina With the massive rise in chicken maintaining there has been an equally big surge in the range of poultry paraphernalia on sale. Fowl housing is a situation in point. It's additionally a classic example of the great old bandwagon being got on as numerous potential poultry housing specialists market a range of lodging declaring to be the excellent option to your chicken housing demands. Usually the cost looks attractive, your house looks attractive, hell even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look desirable. Definitely they recognize a high quality chicken house when they see one? There are many affordable as well as horrible coops swamping the market. I know this as I've tested a number of them in the field, as well as seen a ewe run directly with one when the feed pail appeared. The result was just a pricey pile of firewood and also a little flock of bemused as well as now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Pallets in Sellers, South Carolina
Most of the time these mass produced designs are built of fast grown lumber - come the first drop of rain they swell, leaving you either barricading a door that will not close, or tearing the door furnishings off in a vain effort to release the squawking citizens. The first cozy day indicates the lumber dries out and splits, the really felt roof bubbles as well as boils, and come nightfall the chickens choose not to enter. This is not as a result of their frustration at the decrease of their as soon as attractive commercial property however considering that the hovel is now a sanctuary for, and possibly abounding, the chicken keeper's bane, red mite. Add the fact that it claimed on the blurb that it would match four big hens when that stocking thickness was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and just what are you entrusted? A couple of joints and also some kindling. A good coop for thee to 4 birds ought to cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you choose for a free standing house or one with a run attached. Presuming you are varying your birds in a big area and the pop opening door allows sufficient for the type you keep, then the major requirements of real estate come down to 3 factors which will specify the variety of birds the house will hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. The majority of types of chicken will perch when they visit roost in the evening, this perch should preferably be 5-8cm large with smoothed off edges so the foot sits conveniently on it. The perch must be above the nest box entry as chickens will additionally naturally try to find the highest point to perch. A perch less than that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they create the most poo) leading to dirtied eggs the following day. They shouldn't however be so high off the floor of the house that leg injuries could happen when the bird comes down in the early morning. Chickens need regarding 20cm of perch each (in little breeds this is undoubtedly less), plus if more than one perch is mounted in the house they must be greater than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors however are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Preferably your house ought to have a least one nest box for every single three birds and also these should be off the ground as well as in the darkest location of your house. Your home must have ample ventilation: without it after that condensation will certainly accumulate every evening, even in the coldest of climate. Know, ventilation works with the concept of warm and comfortable air leaving via a high gap attracting cooler air in from a reduced space - it's not a collection of holes on contrary wall surfaces of the house as well as at the very same degree, 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 true, however you should likewise take into consideration the run dimension. The EU maximum lawful equipping density for a complimentary array bird is (and let's encounter it, one of the inspirations for keeping some hens in your home is possibly boosted or better welfare) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m made even. Take a close look at several of the deal residences - it could well be your house has the ideal perches, proper air flow and enough nest boxes for an affordable number of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized item of ground to invest the day on? Therefore as the claiming goes, "you get just what you spend for". You might think you've got hold of a bargain, but you as well as your flock could possibly rue the day you did. Acquisition the appropriate house as well as it will certainly last for a couple of decades, if not longer offered the right therapy. In the long run your poultry and your poultry maintaining encounter will certainly be considerably the far better for it.chicken chick
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