Chicken Coops for Sale in Dille, West Virginia
Chicken Coops for Sale in Dille, West 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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Baby Chickens For Sale in Dille, West Virginia
A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Dille West 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 Dille West Virginia chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Dille, West Virginia With the significant increase in chicken maintaining there has been a similarly huge increase in the variety of fowl stuff for sale. Fowl housing is an instance in point. It's additionally a timeless example of the good old bandwagon being got on as numerous potential chicken housing experts market a variety of cottage claiming to be the ideal option to your chicken real estate demands. Commonly the price looks desirable, your house looks eye-catching, heck even the clean-cut family members standing there feeding the chickens look appealing. Definitely they know a professional chicken house when they see one? There are several economical as well as horrible cages swamping the marketplace. I know this as I've tested a number of them in the area, and seen a ewe run directly via one when the feed bucket appeared. The outcome was only a pricey heap of firewood and also a tiny group of bemused and also currently homeless bantams.
Chicken Hut in Dille, West Virginia
Generally these standardized models are created of rapid grown up timber - come the first drop of rainfall they swell, leaving you either defending a doorway that won't close, or ripping the door furniture off in a vain attempt to release the squawking citizens. The very first warm and comfortable day indicates the wood dries as well as cracks, the felt roofing system bubbles as well as boils, and come nightfall the chickens refuse to enter. This is not as a result of their dissatisfaction at the decline of their once eye-catching property yet since the hovel is now a place for, and also possibly abounding, the fowl keeper's bane, red mite. Add that it stated on the blurb that it would certainly suit four big chickens when that equipping density was based on the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, as well as exactly what are you entrusted? A couple of hinges and some kindling. A good coop for thee to 4 birds ought to cost you around ₤ 300 though this could rely on whether you elect for a free standing house or one with a run attached. Assuming you are varying your birds in a large area as well as the pop hole door is big enough for the type you maintain, after that the major needs of real estate come down to three points which will certainly specify the number of birds your house will certainly hold; perches, nest boxes as well as ventilation. The majority of breeds of chicken will certainly perch when they visit roost in the evening, this perch should preferably be 5-8cm wide with smoothed off edges so the foot rests comfortably on it. The perch must be higher than the nest box access as chickens will also normally look for the acme to perch. A perch below that will have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they create one of the most poo) causing soiled eggs the following day. They should not nonetheless be so high off the floor of the house that leg injuries can take place when the bird comes down in the morning. Chickens require about 20cm of perch each (in small types this is obviously much less), plus if greater than one perch is set up in the house they ought to be more than 30cm apart. They will certainly hunker up with their next-door neighbors but 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 three birds as well as these should be off the ground as well as in the darkest area of your home. Your house needs to have appropriate ventilation: without it then condensation will certainly build up every night, also in the coldest of weather. Realize, ventilation works with the principle of warm air leaving with a high space drawing cooler air in from a reduced space - it's not a set of openings on contrary walls of your home and also at the exact same level, this is what's known as a draft. If you have a house with a run attached after that the factors above are still true, but you need to also consider the run size. The EU maximum lawful equipping density for a totally free variety bird is (and also let's face it, among the motivations for keeping some chickens at home is possibly enhanced or much better well-being) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird per 4m settled. Take a close look at some of the bargain residences - it could well be the house has the appropriate perches, appropriate air flow and enough nest boxes for a reasonable variety of birds, but will each of the chickens have anything more than an A4 sized piece of ground to spend the day on? And so as the stating goes, "you obtain exactly what you spend for". You could assume you've got hold of a bargain, but you as well as your group could possibly rue the day you did. Acquisition the right house and also it will certainly last for a couple of decades, if not longer provided the correct treatment. Ultimately your poultry and your poultry maintaining encounter will be considerably the much better for it.chick chickens
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