Just Takes Money & Man Hours | VLOG 49 | A DIY Chicken Coop Build | Our Small Farm Life
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- It just takes money & man hours...watch this video to learn what it cost us in dollars & days to build an 8'×8' chicken coop. Our Small Farm Life Vlog Episode 48 features a close-up look at the little DIY build & the low-down numbers on the money & man hours it took to build it.
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2 things...a link & a correction note.
1st: Here's a link to the video "just doing what we do" vlog 47 of "our small farm life vlog" on our channel:
th-cam.com/video/-Wums0_-pqg/w-d-xo.html
2nd: correction on my part from vlog 48...I said Jared worked full time in the construction trade 96 to 07, & it was actually 94 to 07...he started working construction the Monday after he graduated from high school.
It’s looking great 😊
Thank you, Cindy! We appreciate it!
God bless y'all!
This looks awesome!!! Love it!!!! All you have left to do is put the chickens in there? Didn't know Jared built your home and other coop building, amazing!!!
Well worth it, loved seeing it, have a great day Melissa!❤❤
@@Mothercluckerschickenfarm Thanks so much!!! Yes, basically done...a few important odds & ends, though...filler boards at the bottom to fill the gaps where the ground isn't level, get a handle & latch on for the door, & install nesting & roosting plans, then chickens can move in...then we also need to trim the ridgecap & add the corner trim, & want to paint the t-111 material, but all those things can be done after chickens move in.
Yes, everything here. The house, the current henhouse, & the meat bird barn. We had family helping especially with the house, & in the house we contracted out the basement's concrete walls & the plumbing & the electric, but Jared did the building on everything here. He is more talented than he'd ever admit!
Thank you for watching & commenting! Appreciate your feedback. God bless y'all!
@twinoaksfam love it! Beautiful work he does. A bit to do for the chickens, but it's good it all can be done after you move them. You all did great work!🥰🩷
@@Mothercluckerschickenfarm Thank you! ❤️
Go find some thin angle iron
Thank you, Buck! We appreciate it!!!
Hope you're doing great!
God bless you.
Thanks for watching & commenting!
Are you building shelf perches for at night? In the summer when it's hot are you able to open up the sides? Nest boxes? With all that those clear panels will there be enough darkness inside for the girls to lay eggs? Maybe build nest boxes that attached to the outside for ease of collecting eggs. We stopped using the clear plastic panels from lowes or home depot as they pretty much cracked within a year of being exposed to sun, rain, snow and winds.
@@karenfrankland7763 Hi! Thank you for the great feedback & points to consider! It's greatly appreciated!!!
I wondered about the durability of the clear panels! I am interested to see how they hold up over time. Based on your feedback, we'll be formulating a backup plan for replacement panels for when those start to deteriorate...we wondered if theyll possibly deteriorate noticeably in a relatively short amount of time. Thanks for the tip on your experience with it!
Shelf perches...we'll probably opt for something more along the lines of roosting bars instead. Still deciding exactly.
The sides are not able to be opened. The coop isn't airtight, though, & the ridgecap & vented soffit will help some with disseminating heat that rises. Also, the plan is for the hens to be able to get outside, & we'll plan some cover for them. Plus we could probably switch out panels for hardware panel as needed seasonally to let more airflow through the coop if we found that might be helpful.
Great questions!
We will be learning by observation regarding if there will be enough darkness for the girls to lay eggs. We have pondered the same question. We think having the solid material on part of the siding will help us with that concern. We will have to see how that goes. I like the idea of nest boxes attached to the outside of the shed. That's a great thought. We actually think we may initially try building in nesting corners based on observing the new hens in the meat bird barn; their impromptu use of the blocked out corners has really worked out so well, & we're going to see if we can duplicate that effect in this new coop. It's actually worked out much better for us than nest boxes, so we want to try it!
Thank again! We are grateful for your input!
Many Blessings to y'all! Have a super day!
@@twinoaksfam The problem I see is if you allow them to lay on the ground behind a corner board is that the ground outside is gonna get wet and cold with rain seeping in. That creates dirty eggs, mud ect.. on all the inside edges of the coop. Having an attached covered run will allow you to feed the hens outside of the coop. Dump water buckets at night and refill in the mornings. Feed can be done in a five gallon hanging feed bucket that keeps the food dry and predator proof from Rat's coming in. Lots of info on hanging 5 gallon bucket feeders. I do worry that the bottom of your coop is just sitting on the ground. Over time the rodents will make there way in. Perhaps attach hardware cloth at the bottom on the outside and have it go out a good foot or so on the ground and then cover that over with rocks and dirt to prevent rodents from digging under. We have to redo our chicken run wire this summer. It's been a good 20 years of being rodent free and just this winter they have tunneled in. Our hardware cloth is a foot under ground and woven onto the side hardware cloth as is the top with a tarp over that. We have security camera's in all our runs at night to see what if anything is getting in. The birds are all safe and locked in there coops at night.
Thanks! Great suggestions! We'll definitely discuss the considerations you shared.
We will have some fill at the ground level similar to our henhouse coops & meat bird barn...amazingly, with the fill & bedding, the interior floors of the chicken houses stays quite dry, so we think that approach will help us with floor quality in this coop, too.
The eggs we collect from the floors, versus the nestboxes, currently are consistently clean & unblemished, often more satisfactory than what we collect from the boxes. It's interesting watching the hens nesting in those corners...it seems to mimic what we've observed the hens do when they've had free range access...reminds us of when a hen just finds a hidey-hole & makes her own nest. We're still deciding for sure what we'll do about it.
We have discussed the predator control at the bottom of the walls, too, but realized it's really pretty similar to our other henhouses & to the meat bird barn...with those buildings being built right on the ground level, too...so we expect floor management in here to be similar to the other chicken houses.
A covered chicken run is awesome, but I know we won't be able to do that at this site. It does make it nice to feed in a covered run & have protected areas for feeding. It also makes a nice protected area that is a great extension of a coop & offers flock safety, too.
Thanks for sharing all your great insights & observations! We greatly appreciate it!
Have a great day!
My only question is where can I get plans? 😜 I absolutely love this, and we're going to be building a second coop this spring! Hopefully it goes quicker this time because I won't be doing it on my own, and I have some experience now.
When I built the first coup, I put a hard cover over their run and I considered making part of it out of that clear corrugated material. I still kind of regret not doing that because of the lack of light here, and will likely do that on the new coop for just one end of it. I do want them to be able to get shade if they need it.
Having previous experience & having help will definitely make your second coop build go faster than the first. That's so exciting you're planning a second coop!!!
Thank you for the compliments! That's really interesting you ask about a building plan, because I told Jared when we started this that we need to convert the material list & process to a set of building plans & offer that plan for sale...we definitely want to trial & error this coop with chickens actually using it & see what we need to improve, but yes, I also feel like it is helpful to get to see plans that give a reference point & a starting point on material list & assembly process.
We just kept looking at example after example to see if we could find what we had visualized, & we used some visual reference from looking at those finished sheds to settle on what we wanted to build.
I can see why the finished sheds are priced at the price points they are after getting materials for this one & seeing the man hours on it. By the time shed building companies cover expenses for material & labor, & add on a profit margin, it all adds up a lot. DIY can be a huge cost savings!
@tinab7791Yes, I think that corrugated clear panel could work really well for a hard cover over a run...or possibly on part of a roof, too, like a skylight...we talked about putting it on top of this coop, but thought the roof metal will just hold up better over time & help protect the birds from some of the strongest solar heat in the Summer.
Thank you for watching & commenting! We greatly appreciate it!
@twinoaksfam Melissa I have screenshot your response so I have the email, go ahead and remove it when you get a chance. Thank you!
Thanks for the update, Tina! Got it! I appreciate it, & I will edit that now. 😊