Ha ha, those numbers $$ sound about right, although we have spent a bit more. Swung by Home Depot and ended up buying a pre made shed, $2000.00 "Tuff Shed", got it home and I decided it wouldn't work., its now a tool shed. My hubby built a small coop for my rooster, Moe, after buying the windows and insulation we were in it about $600. Then I started getting the girls (my daughter has around 100 chickens) I just kept going to my daughters house/coop and picking ones in my color scheme...Lizzie my grand daughters first chicken raised from a day old, now 8 years (no eggs here, lol), Lacy, Lucy 1, Lily & Lindy. By now I see the coop is too small. We bought another shed from a gal moving, so after paying to have it delivered another 1K. Now I figure what with all the feed the squirrels and mice steal my eggs need to sell for $100.00 EACH. In March my daughter saw an ad for Lavender Orpingtons, so I now have 3 "Babe A Licious' ", that of course need their own coop and also of course I got 2 roosters and one hen, they lived in my house for a month and are now in the coop my hubby built. Then same Craigs list gal had 2 hens for sale...Lucky, Lucy 2 & Raven, Lucy 1 lives back at my daughters house and we have a total of 11 poultry. The summer project is to build an overhang over the entire coop area, we have it next to our big detached garage with metal roof (what was I thinking???), when it snowed, you guessed it, I spend a lot of time shoveling out their pens. So I need a huge over hang and refenced area with gates so they can roam free when we are home and hopefully we can keep out most of the squirrels and birds. The Babealiciouses aren't laying, so we get around 4 eggs a day, hey can't put a price on a good time, so I am now selling eggs for $50.00 ea. I actually sold 1 dozen last week and got $3.00. All my chickens are very tame and Moe is the man, he loves to be held.
