My "Free" Eggs are costing me a FORTUNE! - ITS DONE!! pg 15 pics

[dbounds10]

well - I am the original poster of this thread and I have learned to stop counting and also that the coop IS NEVER DONE! We have shade cloth and added misters and a window unit AC since it has been over 110 here every day for a week! The girls are all 22 weeks old and still no eggs. My husband figured we will need something like 8000 dozen eggs to break even!

Here are the girls cooling off with some frozen watermelon:

 

[MrCluckers]

I stopped counting at about $1500... but the pleasure of watching chicken TV while enjoying an ice cold beer after a long day of work is priceless.

 

[CarolJ]

Someone told me that you just count the first egg as costing $1500 (or however much you spent building the coop & run) - then all the eggs after that are free.

 

[LN2008]

woah. Mine has maybe cost me $40 and that's a big maybe. I've had some gracious donators and I've been using a lot of found objects. I promise it does not look like a chicken shack.

 

[karlamaria]

Mine cost me a thousand and it's small, we had to spend extra to make sure it's insulated well and have 3 windows . The run cost another 100.00 a good pen unless your not cold like we are will cost a good amount of money.500.00 is pretty cheap, how many birds do you have? I have 5 chickens in a 5x6 with the next boxes on the out side for extra room in the coop. I wish now I had made a much bigger coop!

 

[karlamaria]

I love the run! How did you put that pitch on the run? I need to do the same on mine! Awesome!

 

[catsew]

Glad to see an update to this thread. I just wanted to say that I have an annoying BIL who is not a master anything that insisted nothing but the best be used for this coop. Luckily for us we had the majority of it framed and laid out, so there was only so much he could add to. But we have the best hinges money can buy to hold a tiny piece of wood.

 

[CupOJoe42]

My coop isn't even started yet and it's already cost me $400 for a permit!!!

Very nice coop and run! Blessings! Blessings! Blessings!!

 

[6chicks&aduck]

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this is an awesome coop , thanks for sharing the pics !

 

[dbounds10]

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The pitch in the roof is PVC, here are a couple more pic