am i a chepo

[Nuggetsowner:)]

You are definately smart not cheap.

Makes me wonder what my neighbor thought when I brought an old outhouse in to my yard. That outhouse became my second coop!!

 

[justusnak]

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He was lazy...always leaning on the coop...so we FIRED him! LOL
Into the burn pile with ya lazy butt!

 

[rooster-red]

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I've built my 2 coops that way and am in the process of procuring materials to build a third.

My coops have steel floors made from industrial 12 gauge steel shelving. I recycled an old shower door for a window in the coop.

the nest boxes are made from recycled thick rubber coated counter tops.

 

[mandomama]

We tore down 2 falling down barns when we bought our property. We are using all the old wood we salvage from that. Hopefully we'll be able to get a small barn out of it as well! Maybe we should have a cheapest coop contest!!

I think ours will look like Jed Clampets house before he went to Beverly Hills

 

[Cetawin]

Recycling is the best way to go when you can do it. It saves the environment and our natural resources and it gives new life to unwanted materials.

We have friends that just bought an old chicken farm and the barn was falling down. They tore it on down and told me to come get whatever I want. So, as soon as the snow and rain stop, I am headed that way to get as much for my girls' new home as I can get.

 

[Beekissed]

I am the scrounger queen! A dumpster diver from way back and I feel so much satisfaction in getting something for free that I brag about these things all the time! Not cheap......SMART!

Right now, the boys and I are tearing down an old building to reclaim the lumber to frame my 35 ft. x 4 ft. raised garden beds....8 of them! And will have lumber left over to build 3 large cold frames and a wood shed! We also will be building wooden gates with this wood! We also got 4 large sheets of corrugated tin, about 75 ft. of chain link fencing with 2 lg. metal gates and 1 sm. and all the posts! We found an old scythe in this building and he said we could have that also!

The cold frames will be topped with shower doors removed from the bathroom and one old screen door someone gave me.

My roosts are from very long tomato stakes that were here....they are the perfect diameter! I fenced in the rest of the yard with old fence posts I found in one corner of the lot, along with some partial roles of wire found in one of the old outbuildings. Heck, my whole place is made from donated or scrounged items!

I bought a vintage (30's) rattan settee and rocking chair from a road side junk sale...$65, and recovered the springs with some "horse hair" taken from a baby mattress someone had put out in the trash. I make new foam cushions from an old foam mattress I found in the attic and from a foam mattress topper my mom gave me.

I scrounged heavy cardboard boxes from work to tack up in the ceiling and walls of my old henhouse for insulation and someone gave me some aluminum storm windows. I will be putting them in the walls of the coop for additional lighting this winter.

One old fellow heard me admiring his ten hole galvanized nest box unit (with fold down roosts) that was behind his barn.... and gave it to me!

I have found, with enough white paint, anything can look new! Scrounge on, America! It keeps the environment AND the economy in better shape! If that is cheap, then I am one cheap hussy! LOLOL

 

[Cetawin]

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Well then those chickens will be living in comfortable digs won't they?

 

[Stumpy]

Nope, just wise. This reminds me of the time -- I'll never forget overhearing a mason while he was installing brick to our exterior foundation, complaining about how cheap we were not to wrap brick all the way around the house. I thought, I'll be glad for you to pay for it!

I don't care who calls me cheap! Ignore them!

And then share your photos.

 

[Run-A-Muck Ranch]

I love to reuse things and to dumpster dive...I see someone else has used that term. I thought it was only me. I am glad to see I am not alone.
Actually we tore down to old calf barns on the property. We reused the tin that was put on the outside of one for many many project. The wood is still being used. We have piles of things here than can be used of so many other projects. It's amazing what one can come up with when thinking 'outside of the box' on stuff.
I actually have gotten many things that way.

No it's not cheap. (although I call myself the thrifty queen.)....
It's smart. It's useful, and it's even has advantages. What I would of spent on building matteral for say the chickencoop, got put into another fund and used for something else, and our chicken coop ended up costing us nothing.
So I guess it could also be a savings plan by using other people stuff...
What's one mans trash is another mans treasures..

 

[newchickmom]

Justusnak,

You need to put that on the coop page!!!!