Recycling Materials to Build your COOP

[Sam The Yam]

Here is an update on my Pallet Palace:

 

[Cheep a'lil Talk a'lil]

That is looking very cute!! I do love the door!

Well, I never did get the 8x8 chicken coop that was offered on freecycle.com
After tracking down a trailer that would haul the ginormous coop (coop couldn't be taken apart) the guy then gave me the run around. He finally said that someone who lived closer might be better off taking it, incase if fell apart on the way home. I live over an hour from him and have to go around a VERY windy lake. Maybe he had a point...but I WANTED that coop!! Oh well.

 

[Sam The Yam]

Thanks!
I was able to get the coop secure before I left on the trek and put the chickens in it. They seemed to do well. I have some fine tuning to do but it is functional and doing well so far.

 

[das fisch]

the coop we built was made entirely from recycled and scrap building materials. i mean the only thing i had to buy was a latch for pop door and hinges. other than that, roofing, siding, framing, flooring is all recycled or scrap. cost me about $10 total. even the nails and screws are recycled. i'm a stickler for taking all old nails that are at least semi-straight and keeping them. just my short story

 

[Sam The Yam]

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My dad was exactly like that. He did alot of building on our farm and did it mainly out of used material. I remember a foot bridge he built using an old car frame and then putting wood over it. I will always remember that. Thanks for responding.

 

[mrbstephens]

We spent maybe $150 on hardware, hardware cloth and some plywood and 2x4s. Everything else was recycled material. We used pallets that came from Germany. They were from a large piece of machinery that was delivered to my husbands work. For the run, my neighbors gave me 4x4s and 1x6s that were from their old swing set and some wire fencing they no longer had use for.

 

[pati-o]

Believe it or not, I use oxygen tubing. My grandma was on home oxygen and used 20ft+ of tubing to get from one side of her house to the other. It works great to hang my feeder and H20 for my meat birds. It also works great to tie up plants, and hang hanging plants on the hooks I have in the porch ceiling.