How much did your coop cost?

[hickchick55]

My coop cost about $300- my husband had lots of material left from building our house and polebarn. He had added a woodshed last year and was generous enough to give half of it up to chickens. First pic shows entrance door, second shows coop construction before run was added. It has worked out really well.

 

[JackE]

Right around $1100, Give or take $100.
Jack

 

[kuntrygirl]

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[ECBW]

Built 2 coops, each for about $60. Mostly for fasteners, some for latches and hinges and some for 1/2" welded fabric. All other material were recycled.

Total investment in facility: $120.

Total investment in birds: $40.

Eggs harvested: over 500, in one year.

Return in enjoyment: priceless.

 

[stcroixusvi]

The windows were free

The rest, well, let's just say, twice as much as we planned.

 

[Oregon Blues]

It's going to depend upon a lot of things.

How good are you at scrounging parts?

What sort of predators do you have in your area?

How much pride do you have in what your yard looks like?

I know at one point, I gave away one of those 10 X 10 metal garden sheds. So someone could have gotten a virtually free coop on that day.

Hardware cloth is outrageously expensive and getting more expensive and also getting lower and lower in quality. Who you must keep out of your coop is going to have a huge effect on what your costs are.

My coop was done with a lot of leftover materials I already had. But that material was not free. I paid for that at the time it was moved into the shop and stored. Just because it is out there sitting in a pile in your shop doesn't mean it is free.

 

[StrayMagnet]

$26 bucks. and that was for the nails, and hinges for the door, and chickenwire

Everything else was free!!. All I had to get was free pallets.. tore them apart and Attach them to the exzistin frame of our porch. where the chicken decided to have her eggs.
I want something nice like a building.. but as it is these chickens just happend over night. litteraly! sooooo I"m making do with what I have.

This is before I started to lay the wood barrier. rite now it's 3/4's of the way just chicken wire. till I get the pallets apart to board up the rest. THEN i'll chicken wire up the top half

what i'll be doing all the way around excpt for the far left hand side. as i will just make a doorway to walk from under the porch to inside the coop. and another small opening for a door. wich is already in place I just need to finish it

oh and yes for those of you who may be woundering.. that is hubby's work truck.. he Drives a ice cream truck

hence the other reason we decided to board in and make the porch into a coop. he's afraid if we free range them before the yard is fenced. that he will accdently run over some chicks. it was HIS idea to keep them I was gonna just let them free like mom.. HE said lets keep em LOL go out n make the porch a coop

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[Chick Charm]

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$700. You should see the inside with the coops three roosting dowels and the fancy nest boxes and the framed door in the floor. The laying hens are spoiled for sure.

 

[wava1vaughn]

Hi from Ga. My coop is running about $150/pen. So far I have 5 pens. Each pen is for a different breed.

This is 4 of my pens on the end I have Merriam turkeys so there is a 20' run for them. The others I free range separately at different times.

 

[mpare]

Our coop cost about $250. We used some scrap lumber, old windows and repurposed the run. The biggest expense was for the shingles.