Chicken Coops for Sale in White Plains, Virginia
Chicken Coops for Sale in White Plains, Virginia
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 Reviews in White Plains, Virginia
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in White Plains Virginia" 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 White Plains Virginia chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in White Plains, Virginia With the huge increase in chicken keeping there has been a just as big increase in the range of fowl stuff for sale. Poultry housing is a case in point. It's also a traditional example of the excellent old bandwagon being jumped on as numerous prospective poultry housing specialists market a range of lodging declaring to be the perfect solution to your chicken housing requirements. Commonly the price looks desirable, the house looks appealing, heck even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look desirable. Definitely they know a professional chicken house when they see one? There are many low-cost as well as nasty cages flooding the market. I know this as I've tested a number of them in the field, as well as seen a ewe run directly via one when the feed pail appeared. The result was nothing but an expensive pile of firewood as well as a little group of bemused and also currently homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop On Wheels in White Plains, Virginia
More often than not these mass produced designs are built of rapid grown up hardwood - come the initial decrease of rain they swell, leaving you either blockading a doorway that won't shut, or tearing the door furniture off in a vain effort to release the squawking occupants. The first warm day implies the lumber dries and splits, the really felt roofing system bubbles and also boils, as well as come nightfall the hens refuse to enter. This is not due to their dissatisfaction at the decrease of their once attractive building however since the hovel is now a place for, and also most likely crawling with, the poultry keeper's bane, red mite. Add on the fact that it claimed on the blurb that it would certainly suit four big hens when that equipping density was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, as well as exactly what are you entrusted? A few hinges as well as some kindling. A good coop for thee to four birds need to cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you choose for a cost-free standing house or one with a run attached. Thinking you are varying your birds in a huge space and also the pop hole door is big enough for the type you keep, after that the main demands of housing come down to 3 factors which will certainly define the number of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and ventilation. Many types of chicken will certainly perch when they go to roost in the evening, this perch ought to ideally be 5-8cm broad with smoothed off edges so the foot rests pleasantly on it. The perch ought to be more than the nest box entry as chickens will certainly additionally naturally look for 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 produce one of the most poo) leading to soiled eggs the following day. They shouldn't nonetheless be so high off the floor of your house that leg injuries can occur when the bird gets down in the morning. Chickens require concerning 20cm of perch each (in little types this is clearly less), plus if more than one perch is mounted in the house they ought to be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their neighbors yet are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Ideally your home needs to have a least one nest box for every 3 birds and these need to be off the ground and in the darkest area of the house. The house should have sufficient air flow: without it after that condensation will certainly develop every evening, even in the chilliest of weather condition. Realize, ventilation works with the principle of cozy air leaving through a high void attracting cooler air in from a lower gap - it's not a set of openings on opposite walls of your house and also at the same degree, this is what's referred to as a draft. If you have a house with a run connected then the points above are still true, however you should additionally think about the run size. The EU maximum lawful equipping thickness for a totally free variety bird is (and also let's encounter it, one of the inspirations for keeping some chickens in your home is perhaps improved or much better well-being) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's maximum one bird each 4m made even. Take a close consider some of the deal houses - it could well be the house has the right perches, right ventilation as well as ample nest boxes for a reasonable variety of birds, but will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized piece of ground to spend the day on? Therefore as the stating goes, "you get just what you spend for". You may assume you've grabbed a deal, but you as well as your group can rue the day you did. Acquisition the right house as well as it will certainly last for a couple of years, otherwise longer given the proper therapy. Eventually your chicken and also your poultry keeping experience will certainly be much the better for it.chick chickens
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