Chicken Coops for Sale in Salkum, Washington
Chicken Coops for Sale in Salkum, Washington
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 Easy in Salkum, Washington
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Salkum Washington" 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 Salkum Washington chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Salkum, Washington With the big rise in poultry keeping there has been a similarly big surge in the range of fowl paraphernalia on sale. Chicken housing is a case in factor. It's likewise a traditional example of the excellent old bandwagon being got on as different would-be chicken real estate professionals pitch a range of holiday accommodation asserting to be the optimal option to your chicken real estate demands. Commonly the rate looks attractive, your diy-chicken-coop-planshome looks attractive, hell even the clean-cut household standing there feeding the chickens look appealing. Certainly they recognize a top quality chicken house when they see one? There are numerous affordable and also awful coops swamping the marketplace. I understand this as I've checked a number of them in the area, as well as seen a ewe run straight via one when the feed pail showed up. The outcome was nothing but a costly pile of fire wood and a small group of bemused and also now homeless bantams.
Chicken Coop Yard Ideas in Salkum, Washington
Most of the time these standardized models are constructed of fast grown up wood - come the initial decrease of rainfall they swell, leaving you either fortifying a doorway that will not shut, or ripping the door furniture off in a vain effort to launch the squawking residents. The initial warm and comfortable day suggests the lumber dries out as well as fractures, the really felt roof covering bubbles and also boils, and come nightfall the chickens choose not to enter. This is not because of their frustration at the decrease of their when eye-catching commercial property but because the hovel is now a place for, and also most likely crawling with, the fowl keeper's bane, red mite. Add that it claimed on the blurb that it would suit four big chickens when that stocking thickness was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and just what are you entrusted? A couple of hinges as well as some kindling. A decent coop for thee to four birds need to cost you approximately ₤ 300 though this could depend upon whether you choose for a complimentary standing house or one with a run attached. Assuming you are varying your birds in a huge room as well as the pop opening door is big sufficient for the breed you maintain, then the primary needs of real estate come down to 3 points which will certainly define the variety of birds your home will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes and ventilation. Many breeds of chicken will certainly perch when they visit roost during the night, this perch ought to ideally be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off edges so the foot sits conveniently on it. The perch needs to be higher than the nest box entrance as chickens will certainly additionally normally seek the highest point to perch. A perch lower than that will have the birds roosting in the nest box over night (which is by the way when they produce the most poo) leading to dirtied eggs the list below day. They shouldn't nevertheless be so high off the floor of the house that leg injuries could take place when the bird comes down in the early morning. Chickens need regarding 20cm of perch each (in tiny breeds this is clearly much less), plus if more than one perch is mounted in your house they ought to be greater than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their neighbors but are not that crazy about roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Ideally your home must have a the very least one nest box for every 3 birds and these ought to be off the ground as well as in the darkest location of your house. Your house ought to have sufficient ventilation: without it after that condensation will accumulate every evening, also in the chilliest of weather. Realize, ventilation works on the principle of warm air leaving through a high gap drawing cooler air in from a reduced gap - it's not a set of holes on contrary walls of the house and at the exact same level, this is just what's called a draft. If you have a house with a run attached after that the factors above are still true, but you must additionally consider the run dimension. The EU optimum lawful stocking thickness for a free range bird is (and let's face it, one of the motivations for maintaining some chickens in the house is possibly improved or much better welfare) 2,500 birds per hectare, that's maximum one bird per 4m made even. Take a close check out some of the bargain houses - it could well be your home has the best perches, right air flow and adequate nest boxes for a sensible 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 stating goes, "you obtain just what you spend for". You might assume you've grabbed a bargain, but you and your flock could 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 correct treatment. Ultimately your poultry and your chicken maintaining experience will be considerably the far better for it.coops diy
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