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I find some pallets laying around the back of the garage to have tremendous value. In fact, OP might be able to build a chicken coop from pallets. I mainly use pallets to make compost bins for things I don't want to throw into my chicken run compost system - like old, moldy food that I would not...

I don't have a budget for keeping my chickens, per se, but I try to use as much free resources as I can. I don't throw out scrap lumber with a current price of what - $4,000 per 2X4 stud!? Just kidding, but it seems that way. Instead of buying new lumber, I am screwing boards together to make...

:bow Looks like you did a fantastic metal shed conversion! Congrats! :old I am fairly good at building with wood, and 3 years ago when I built my chicken coop (pre COVID-19), it was much cheaper for me to build a wood coop using lots of lumber I had left over from other projects. I paid, out...

At the sake of quoting myself, I would like to add that I might not use OSB on a current coop build. I was in the lumber yard last week and checked up on current prices of OSB. When I built my coop, a 4X8 sheet of OSB was less than $7.00 per sheet. :eek: The current price of a sheet of OSB is...

I have OSB for my chicken coop walls. They have been holding up fine for 3 years now, but the outside wall was covered twice with barn paint. I'll probably have to give it a fresh painting this summer. I live in northern Minnesota, and we typically get a week or so of -35F to -40F in the...