Great this works for you/ your family. But not everyone is handy/experienced as you are or has a workshop with machinery for wood crafting.Thats not fact that you cant build secure or inexpensive coops. Not at all. I have had tremendous success building for inexpensive with zero issues in the past and currently building with ease and enjoying the project of TWO coops. Why would so many people build coops just to spend more and risk their birds safety? None of my past birds had been broken into and you can get quite creative. So I think this is a personal thing on how handy one is, how much time one invests in building plans and gathering at low cost supplies stores. Where I live people get rid of wood for free every so often so it's easy to incorporate free into materials. Is 200 in supplies too expensive with about ten hours labor and maybe 2 researching and planning? I think not. My husband father in law me and my brother built our house and my family is 4 generations of farmers and carpenters. We have no problems and it's possible for anyone without physical disabilities to pick up hammers, nails and nail guns and maneuver wood and wire.
Have you ever looked online at plans and layouts? Follow supplies lists and follow dimensions and instructions and you're done.
I don't trust store bought coops for the safety risks you say my hand built ones have. I see the pre built ones as being potentially not secure and theyre expensive. I have way more fun building for less.
Definitely worth a Google search to see what I'm talking about. Many find inexpensive materials and easy building plans.
My newest coop is a pre-build playhouse for children. With a few adjustments it’s just fine to use a chicken coop, and the quality is much better than a pre-build chicken coop I bought and returned to sender.
which I wanted to do in the past. With the Ducks, bunnies, snake, our great dane and fancy rats too.
