Double your budget

[taxus812]

CityChooks,

I was just reading your member pages and was ROFL. I was just stewing about how I had a $350 budget for the coop (calculated it on my handy dandy spreadsheet) and somehow spent $650.

I feel better now.

Is this a comon theme ?

 

[Mahonri]

You don't want to know how much I spent.

BUT I love my 8 X 12 coop and so do my girls.... I only wish I had put in insulation and added an AC unit!!! How's that for wanting to spoil them!?!

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

Oh yeah!! Our little coop ended up costing double I thought it would.... I couldnt believe it when I figured the total!!

 

[BBK]

us too, spent wat to much. hubby said they better lay gold eggs!

melinda

 

[Grammahen]

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OMG that's what my hubby said too! Only I replied back, "Your big screen TV better lay some golden eggs too".

 

[okiron]

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OMG that's what my hubby said too! Only I replied back, "Your big screen TV better lay some golden eggs too".

Haha that's actually why I haven't given my husband much trouble about all the money he puts in his car. I think to myself..he's going to let me have chickens so I'm going to keep my mouth shut...at least till the coop is built

 

[Slywoody]

There's no price on fun, folks. LOL!!

 

[SimplyForties]

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Ohmigosh! I've been buying the lumber for my coop over the last month and really was gasping over the prices. Not only just the lumber, but the hardware. Amazing how much all those brackets, hinges and clasps cost! If I had it to do over, I'd start farther in advance and scrounge more. I did get 2 14' sheets of new tin roofing from the FreeCycle but that was just a drop in the bucket of the total cost! Oh well, if I lose my job I can always rent out my house and move into the coop!

 

[damselfish]

Oh yeah, we spent more than we thought too. DH built it solid, though, no predators are getting in there!

We had a couple of guys (relatives of our neighbors) come up to turkey hunt on our land this spring.

Nicest guys you'd want to meet, but they looked at the coop, kind of shook their heads and laughed, and said "dang, some of our neighbors' houses ain't built this good".

If anybody new is reading this, build it solid, build it big. Scrounge materials a couple extra months if you have to. We started at 8x8, now we're at three rooms totalling 20x8 and it is not big enough.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

I ended up spending $100 in materials rounded off and then another $25 in paint. And Im STILL not done. I still need to get trim and shingles and I decided to change the thickness of the doors so that they are safer (the others are too flimsy imo) so thats another $25 atlease on the plywood I intend to get.