Chicken Coops for Sale in Rochester, Texas
Chicken Coops for Sale in Rochester, Texas
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 Boxes in Rochester, Texas
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Rochester Texas" 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 Rochester Texas chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Rochester, Texas With the huge boost in chicken keeping there has been a just as huge rise in the range of fowl stuff for sale. Poultry housing is a situation in point. It's additionally a traditional instance of the good old bandwagon being got on as numerous would-be poultry housing experts market a selection of cottage claiming to be the optimal option to your chicken housing needs. Commonly the price looks appealing, the house looks attractive, heck also the clean-cut household standing there feeding the chickens look eye-catching. Definitely they know a quality chicken house when they see one? There are many affordable and also horrible cages flooding the market. I recognize this as I've tested a number of them in the area, and seen a ewe run straight with one when the feed container appeared. The outcome was nothing but a pricey pile of fire wood and a tiny flock of bemused and now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Build in Rochester, Texas
Usually these mass produced versions are built of quick grown lumber - come the very first decrease of rainfall they swell, leaving you either barricading a door that won't shut, or ripping the doorway furnishings off in a vain effort to launch the squawking occupants. The very first warm day indicates the wood dries out as well as fractures, the really felt roof covering bubbles and also boils, and come nightfall the chickens refuse to go in. This is not as a result of their dissatisfaction at the decrease of their as soon as appealing building however because the hovel is currently a place for, as well as probably crawling with, the fowl keeper's nemesis, red mite. Add the fact that it said on the blurb that it would certainly suit 4 big chickens when that equipping thickness was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, as well as 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 in the region of ₤ 300 though this can rely on whether you elect for a totally free standing house or one with a run affixed. Presuming you are ranging your birds in a large space as well as the pop hole doorway is big enough for the type you maintain, after that the major requirements of real estate boil down to three factors which will certainly define the variety of birds your home will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and air flow. The majority of types of chicken will certainly perch when they visit roost at night, this perch needs to preferably be 5-8cm large with smoothed off edges so the foot rests pleasantly on it. The perch must be above the nest box entry as chickens will certainly likewise naturally try to find the highest point to perch. A perch lower than that will have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they create the most poo) causing soiled eggs the list below day. They shouldn't nevertheless be so high off the floor of your home that leg injuries might occur when the bird gets down in the morning. Chickens need about 20cm of perch each (in tiny breeds this is certainly much less), plus if greater than one perch is installed in your house they need to be more than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their neighbors but are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Preferably your house must have a the very least one nest box for every 3 birds and also these must be off the ground and in the darkest area of your house. The house needs to have sufficient ventilation: without it then condensation will certainly build up every evening, also in the chilliest of weather. Be aware, ventilation works on the principle of warm and comfortable air leaving through a high void attracting cooler air in from a lower void - it's not a collection of openings on contrary walls of your house and also at the exact same level, this is exactly what's referred to as a draft. If you have a house with a run connected then the factors above are still real, but you need to additionally take into consideration the run dimension. The EU maximum legal equipping density for a free range bird is (and let's face it, one of the motivations for keeping some hens at home is perhaps boosted or better welfare) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's maximum one bird each 4m made even. Take a close take a look at a few of the bargain residences - it could well be your house has the right perches, appropriate air flow and ample nest boxes for a practical number of birds, yet will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized piece of ground to spend the day on? And so as the saying goes, "you obtain just what you pay for". You might assume you've got a deal, yet you and also your flock can rue the day you did. Acquisition the best house and also it will last for a couple of decades, if not longer given the right therapy. In the end your fowl and your fowl keeping experience will be much the better for it.plans chickens
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