We built a DIY CHICKEN COOP from ETSY plans for our chicks! 🐥
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Today I did it vlog style and brought you along with me while I built a DIY chicken coop for our new chickens! I also gave you a little peak of the chickens!
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I’m a small scale egg farmer. I love the fact that you are raising chickens. Eggs are nature’s perfect food. Just a little tidbit of advice though... the chicks look like it’s too warm in their brooder. One light is plenty for that number. Each week them temp gets lowered by 5 degrees. Heat lamps are an extreme fire hazard. I recommend a brooder plate. Good luck with those beautiful chicks.
Thank you! Yes we turned the other light off because it was too hot. We read that each week they require less heat and those heat lamps got hot together! Thanks for the advise! 😁
Looks good.
Looks good. Make sure to add some ventilation up high, chickens need ventilation even in the winter months.
Where have you been? Haven't seen you in a long time. Congratulations on your new home!
Thank you! Well I just started releasing videos every week again. I’m assuming youtube is not pushing them since they are about the house and not my regular DIYs also since I have been gone a while 🥴 but I’m back fixing the house up and I can’t wait to get back to some new DIYs to share too!!! Have a great weekend ☺️💕
Wow I'd never have the courage to build something like this even with plans! Way to go!
Thank you! 💕☺️💕
How much did you spend in materials? if you don’t mind sharing
It was around $700-$800 for everything not including the paint cause we already had it. Everything that size we found was at least $3000 so building I think was our best option.Thanks for watching! Have a great weekend! ☺️💕
These diy videos are just amazing girl!!!!!
Wow! Amazing! TFS! I just started watching but from the look of the plans that's going to be an awesome home for them babies, now & later. Was it cheaper to build it yourself? Hey, you could check habitat for humanity for Windows. If you haven't purchased them yet. Ok, I'm rambling. Back to the video. Much Love and Many Blessings to All!
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Thank you! Yes to build a coop this size it was sooooo much cheaper! One this size already built was $3000 or more we ended up spending around $800 which isn’t bad. Some of the small ones that only hold 2-3 chickens are $300-$400. It was a lot of work though but we are happy with it and hopefully the hens will be too! Thanks for watching have a great weekend! 💕☺️💕
Looks great Jessica I was wondering if there are screens on the windows if not you might want to get some chicken wire to diy something to be able to open windows in the nice weather becuse I know my chicken coop stunk real bad so we added windows (we didnt build it ) but you guys did great if you have any question message me oon Instagram I have a farm and we do egg layers as well as meat chickens my info is on my UA-cam channel love ya !
Oh thank you! Yes the windows do have screens thankfully so we can open them up an air things out lol I definitely will be following you on Instagram and may have questions later 😁 💕💕
@@jessicalynnathome you might want to put "Hardware cloth" over the windows as critters can rip right through the screen. Just say'en!
Premaid they're $2500-$3000 for the same size and design if coop
Yes for sure! Our chickens love it we have had them in it for over a year now and it’s works great! Good luck on your build! 😁
Wery good so nice chicken coop I've ever seen
I hope your hubby realizes what an awesome wife you are with all that you do!!!!!!!! So cute that you have chickies they are adorable!!!!!!!!!!! Good to see you having some help..... Omg the chickens are so big!!!!!!!! You did an awesome job looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
I'm painting mine inside as well with a glossy outdoor paint and adding vinyl floor... I believe these minor changes will make clean up alot easier... Also more venting up top
Congratulations!! Well done! 🐥🐣🐓🐔🐥
I definitely couldn’t make this! I am not a mechanical type of person. I give you and your husband a big thumbs up!👍
Great job on your coop. You and your husband are a great team. I love my girls and yes they grow fast. I had to put mine out early everytime I've gotten more because they would jump out and start running around the house. Always had to put the heating lamps on them until it warmed up enough 🤣 wouldn't change a thing because they are so awesome to have. Hope you have good luck with your babies as they continue to become part of your family 🤗💕💞❤️
Hahaha yea we caught one out running around the basement the other day! 😆 I think we will have to move them out here early too! Thanks you so much for the support. Have a great weekend! 💕☺️💕
@@jessicalynnathome you and your family as well sweetheart 🤗
Great job on the chicken coop! My daughter and her husband built a chicken coop last summer and raised 6 chickens and 1 rooster, in another week or so they are getting 8 more chickens. Their 3 kids named all the chickens. Good luck raising your chickens, and yes, they do grow fast!
Oh how cute! My son named ours too!!! Thanks for watching and good luck to your daughter and her husband with their chickens!!! 🐔🐣
Your young you'll love the land lots of work but u already do alot of stuff on your own I love chickens
Thank you! Yes so much work hopefully we can get it done and maintain it! It’s intimidating 😆 thanks for watching! Have a great weekend 💕☺️💕
I hope you show it when the run and door is done. Chickens are so cute.
Thank you! definitely will!! 💕☺️💕
How awesome it that land and it's potential!!! 5 acres is alot of land especially if you have to mow it lol. I see the riding lawnmower and that worked on ours as well. We also had a little pond that was spring fed so it never dried up especially if there was a drought. My husband wants to raise chickens so I went to the other room so he couldn't hear you talk about the coop. He just came in here showing me a picture of one he found at Atwoods lol. I really like yours and I'm sure it's cheaper to build that buy one already made. You look amazing by the way, I'm so glad you're posting videos again!!!
Oh thank you so much! Yes it’s a lot to mow we just started trying to mow some of this past weekend but the previous owners left a bunch of buried trash(like a giant roll of carpet) ended of getting the riding mower stuck so now we have to go around and search before we finish!
Just fyi, birds called americana at most feed stores are actually easter eggers, and will lay various colors, blues, greens and browns… the sapphire gems lay a nice lighter brown larger egg….
Yall did an awesome job! I've been looking at all kinds of videos on how to build a coop myself, I don't know why I didn't think to go to Etsy for plans...
Nice Job. Good luck with your chickens ♥
It looks GREAT - your chickens are going to LOVE it!
A couple of tips - you'll want to cut a couple of vents up high to let moisture escape (especially in the winter time). Cover them with hardware cloth but leave them open all the time. They need that air flow. And pick up a cut-off piece of sheet vinyl to lay on top of your plywood floor. It's pretty cheap and makes it SO much easier to clean out the shavings/poo later.
Thanks for the tips!!! 😁💕
They don't really need excess ventilation. There are so many gaps in the building the chickens will escape anyway, LOL. I'm glad they had fun building it though, and let's face it, the chickens have no building expertise,
Good job! After everything is said and done isn’t it such a pleasure to sit back and admire it. Yet nothing can beat watching the chickens using it!
It definitely is. Thanks for watching! 💕☺️
What is cost of materials to build this?
If I remover right we spent between $700-800 to build this.
Wonderful job! How much did you spend on the windows?
How many chickens does it hold?
We have 12 in think that would be the max for this coop. Thanks for watching 😁
Good job
This is great!
I have these same plans, for anyone else building this, he has the link to the windows you need on his main website. I think it’s called Morgan Creek Plans.
Oh I didn’t see that! Too late too late for us but hopefully this helps someone else! Thanks for sharing and watching have a wonderful day! 💕☺️💕
Love it!!! You both did great!!! What is an automatic chicken door?
Thank you! The automatic chicken door let’s you set a timer for your door to open and close each time of day so that way we don’t have to worry about if we forget or something. Still have to make sure they all are on at night though so no chicken gets left out 🙃 thansk for watching watching! 💕☺️💕
@@jessicalynnathome talk about chicken eggs....a coworker just gave me a little over 3 dozen brown eggs last night. Woot woot. Can't wait for breakfast. Lol. I'm sure y'all can't wait for your own farm fresh eggs. I don't think I've seen blue eggs before. Wait...do you have a rooster? Do you need one?
Love it n it was a great change from crafts n you need a fence as well
Thank you! We are building a run this weekend 😁
Love it!
LOVE my chickens! I have 13 hens and a Rooster..the Americana will lay the blue eggs..I have one..she’s solid white....mine are getting ready to go broody and sit on eggs to hatch..Chickens are awesome..❤️🐣
Oh that’s great! I can’t wait to get some eggs!!!Thanks for watching! 💕💕💕
U might need a fence. Wildlife in the country
Mine have a fence, actually 10x10 chain link doge pen attached to it. I had to put avian netting on top of mine. I live in the Country and we have hawks..tomorrow is clean the Coops Day! Lol
We are making a chicken run this weekend 😁
We have hawks coyotes and I’m sure other predators so we will have to make sure it’s extra protected when we build it the run! 🙃
Y’all did an AWESOME job!! You will love chickens..they’re addicting! ❤️
I just bought the plans for this same coop today yours turned out great
We are currently building a coop without plans but we are basing it off a few other coops we have seen on youtube. We are totally winging it.
That’s awesome! You can do it!!! 👏👏👏
Each bird requires 4 sq feet of floor space in the coop.
Good job Chickadee
Ahh haa ha, I see whatcha did there. 😄
Thank you! 💕💕💕
Are you going to get plastic windows or is that not safe for them. Just thinking if the window shatter ?
Hmmm never read anything about regular windows not being safe. 🤔
What state do you guys live in?
Can I ask why you did change the name of your channel? Was it bc of the content change? Going away from diys?
We live in Ohio. Well I changed the name to be able to incorporate more of the remodel of this home after we moved but I still will be doing Dollar Tree DIYs on here too! I just haven’t had time with everything this house needs. Soon I will be doing my craft room and hope to be back to that content too! Thanks for watching and sticking around! 💕☺️
Oh wow...Whenever you keep saying its so cold I was wondering which part of the country you guys were in. I live in CO and our view looks the same as yours as far as the landscaping so im nosey...lol. i love your channel and your ideas in all ways you have gone. I'm glad I knew when u switched over so I could keep following you. Anyways have a blessed day friend...
We just moved into our home the week of Thanksgiving...so I totally get it with all the stuff we have to do...frustrating...and all I want to do is craft aNd can't find my supplies...plus house stuff too....
I don’t need a chicken coop this big, but like the design. Is it possible to scale this down slightly? I tried to draw up plans with the base of the floor being 4x6 instead. I think I had the overall height at the peak about 6 1/2 feet. The nesting box would have to remain the same size though. My main concern is scaling it down but it not looking off because of it.
You plan put fencing keep birds prey animals to kill them
Yes we put up a run behind the coop to let the Chickens out 😁 thanks for watching! 💕💕💕
I am assuming you don’t play the drums while they are there. 🎀🇬🇧
Hahaha no I don’t want to traumatize them. They will be moving to the coop soon though! 😁
Love it! Can't wait to see other vlogs about progress around the Homestead. Great inspiration ❤
Thank you!! ☺️💕
Wow you guys done a great job with what tools you had to work with it looks Amazing!!!
Thank you ☺️
How wonderful Jessica!!! Y’all did a great job!! Thank you for sharing❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️cat xxx
You talk too much and slow wasting time
Your rude and wasted my time with this comment 🙄
Same plans we used, :) we used screws instead of the nails in most of our construction though. Ordered our windows on Amazon…
Wow what a WK can do.wow y'all seem to WK very well together and Jessica that's a great thing.i so enjoy your videos 💓💓
What do you think was the most expensive part itself? Siding? How much were they?
I would love to see videos of getting your chics in their new home and advice on raising chickens.. so far. We will be doing this within the next year.
Awesome job your chickens are goingto feel like their staying In the Biltmore.👏👏❤️
I was wondering about how much it cost to build it? I’m thinking about building one myself
Wow it right there getting big.
So cute, have fun with them!!
It is Brilliant 💖💖💖🇬🇧
The chicken coop looks awesome!
Looks good! 🐓🐓🐓
Beautiful
I built the same coop but made it taller so i could stand in it.
Love it! Do you have an updated video on the chicken coop run?
Hon air holes?
Those chics will die of suffocation without air! But they can’t freeze either, if oxygen holes are too massive. Hubby, what’s you be doing? Squeeze and eat the chics, you be turn in’ into Satan’s Ozzie Osborne! Yikes! Only Jesus knows the heart!
What will keep the legs of the coop from rotting?
I’d set them on concrete blocks, and because critters are such an issue, cover the bottom with quarter inch wire (and any openings). I’m sure you know all that but I thought I’d mention it.
Well we intended to put the legs on pavers but we forgot to before we constructed everything so now we are planning on jacking it up because it’s super heavy to get those pavers under each legs so they won’t rot. 😁
@@jessicalynnathome I just saw it has a complete floor too. So probably no need for quarter inch. So cute!! Great job! Enjoy the chickens, we love ours!🥰
Adorable!