How much did YOUR first egg cost?

[alaskachick]

I paid $800.00 for a super soft shelled mini size egg.

But it's been fun and Ive learned a lot.

 

[TK421]

It was about $80 for the coop and about $75 for all the feed and supplies thus far, not counting the new Laying Pellets, hay, and shavings I had to buy today now that they're laying. That's not too terribly bad, I think! I wouldn't dare point out to my DW that those little eggs cost $80 each!

 

[Mahonri]

A couple thousand at the very least.

My wife said we were better of financially before chickens. She is correct.

 

[nuttyredhead]

Ummmm just under 5000$. Thats because my husband decided to built a coop/shed at the same time lol!

 

[MakNugget]

I stopped officially counting after 2500 for the coop & run. All new materials except floor & roof of coop. GOOD LORD! wood is expensive!

And it's not really finished... you NEVER finish, lol. I just need to drop a few bucks and hours to increase the security of the run... eventually.

 

[Harrietsmum]

Not telling

 

[7L Farm]

To much $. Allot of work & time no huevos yet. But I'm in it for the long haul.

 

[happydodgefarm6113]

Well, lets see. Do we count the hours in labor? That would be thousands of dollars just in time. We own an excavation business so my husband moved our old rickety shed out back with his 120 komatsu excavater. Should I add the cost of that. Or the bulldozer used to grade the pen to a perfect flat area? I figure we spent 1200.00 and adding more. Never done. We joke all the time about how much we will charge for the dozen eggs when all the hens will be laying. We love our hens and lok forward to many years of egg collecting.

 

[cottage19]

Material for the coop and run cost about $800. Labor was "free" since we did it ourselves but we spent at least $125 on beer, pizza and ice cream treats that we felt we deserved since we worked so hard building the coop in the summer heat. Oh...and there was also that $60 run to the doctors office for a tetanus shot that I needed after the mishap that occured when we were putting the run wire underground to keep the critters out...

Was it worth it? You 'betcha - the girls are giving back in eggs and entertainment every day!

 

[linben]

I add up to 115.00.

I used part of my existing greenhouse for the coop. I salvaged the wood and roofing for the run and the nesting boxes from bulk day and Craiglsist. I got a feeder, heat lamp and waterer during bulk pickup day (lucky me). I had to buy hardware cloth, vaccinated for Fowl pox, feed and chicks.

I have gotten my first egg and it was worth it.