How much did your coop cost?

[shuizar209]

Finally my coop will be complete tomorrow. Ive had everything besides the roosts and nest boxes done for months now. The hubs and I did most of the coop. We didnt do the metal frame. We hired a friend who charged 200 to weld it together and about 170 for the materials. We went with metal so that when the wood started to deteriorate we would just have to take off the wood and screw in new pallets.

The coop is 16 by 4 and the roof goes down at an angle from side to side (not front to back). The wood, latches, handles, screws chicken wire, ect was about 600 to 700 cant remember.

Then the wood for the roosts nest boxes were only 86 bucks. The way the nest boxes we are building it will be a 6 space nest box and since the coop is divided into four sections we are having to build 4 of the boxes.
There are four runs that are 25 by 5 and the stakes, fencing, and the hammer thingy that you pound the stakes in was about 300 to 350.

I will post pics once the roosts and nests are complete.

 

[tammyd57]

My coop has only cost me the $45 I spent on 5 gallons of paint for it. I gave my brother my old hot tub and in exchange, he bought me a used fireworks stand and converted it to a coop for me. It's 8' x 32' and 8' high. It's divided into 4 rooms, each 8' x 8'. One room is set up as a brooder room with a huge cupboard for the plastic bins I use for brooders. Once they outgrow the brooder, they go on the floor until old enough to go outside. The pen is 20' x 50' (I built the run myself with chain link fencing I got from a freecycler).
Oh, I did spend money to equip the coop with feeders and waterers. But I got SUCH a deal on those! I found them on Craigslist. They are heavy duty galvanized, I've never seen any this good quality before anywhere. The man said they hadn't been used since before he was born (they used to belong to his grandpa) and he's 40 years old, so they were made at least 50 years ago and look like they should last at least that long again. The feeders hold 75# of feed and the waterers hold 3 gallons. I bought 4 feeders @ $7 each and 10 waterers @ $3 each! I bought so many waterers so I could put some in the coop and some outside and still have a few left over to 'fill & swap' every day.
I think there's a link in my signature to the thread about building my coop.

Right now I have 22 Barnevelder chicks living in my coop. 8 of them are about 12-14 weeks old and the rest are 3 weeks younger (back-to-back hatches).

 

[Oregon Blues]

About $7,000 in fencing. About five hundred for the night run ( already had all those pieces). $600 so far in the coop, but that doesn't count a lot of materials I already had.

I already had the concrete piers, the windows, several sheets of T-111, the ice shield, the shingles for the roof, and a lot of 2X4's for framing.

A surprise very large expense was the pound-on joint plates for the roof trusses. Nearly $200 worth of them, and you could have fit them all into a Kleenex box. Then a real pre-hung exterior metal door. Maybe a real door isn't necessary, but it will help to deter theft.

 

[PlayaChicken]

1/2 inch hardware cloth $350, metal roof over run $120, wood and hardware $400, oops paint $10, sand for run $60, a junk pre-fab coop $279 (I am going to build a new coop very soon).

However, the chicks cost a whopping $12 for four.

 

[DinosRBirds]

75-100$. We made it out of recycled barn.

 

[DinosRBirds]

Totally, fence andall, about 250-300$ or lower.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I bought an Eglu Go that was on sale on Amazon with the basic run for about $450. Then I added two more run sections and two more of the run covers. That cost me about $280 or so combined. I have the most spoiled chickens on the planet.

The only reason I have the Eglu is that I live in a town with delusions of grandeur, and I don't want to run afoul of zoning, the design review committee, or anything else. It's pretty funny, considering that at the same time the city dances us through all of the silliness, it eases the building codes and funds expanded low income housing from the property tax funds. Those are some really ugly and scary designs.

 

[kuntrygirl]

A lot of mine didn't cost anything. I'm a big recycler. However, if i had to guess, I would have to say over the years, I may have spent $300.00 on 11 chicken coops and stall, 1 chicken house, 15 brooders, 1 guinea coop and 1 peacock aviary.

 

[dsqard]

I spent around $1100 on materials and built this myself.

The run (not in the picture since I hadn't built it yet) was another couple hundred dollars. I am using dog kennel panels.

 

[teach1rusl]

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Ain't THAT the truth??? lol Kind of like that free puppy that ends up costing $500 between spay, shots, toys, leashes, puppy class, etc.

I'm with Samouw - It's that first egg that's so expensive...lol. Originally our main coop was around $12-1300 (including run). But we just added a metal roof over part of the run, so probably around$1500...not much in the way of free materials. The bantam coop - around $450 with a decent amount of free material for it's start. Pics on BYC pages.