The true cost of building your own coop -

total : US$ 60 , include paint and hardware cloth (both haven't applied yet)

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maybe for american this is such "garbage" coop, but it is tooooooooo expensive for my country's people. if my neighbor or another people outside my family look at my coop and know how it cost US$ 60 they will think i'm a crazy man and howl that i must call for physician. US$ 60 worth so high here for only chicken coop but i think my girls need a house that they can nesting, sleeping and laying without being chase and eaten by my dog (broke 2 "chain" in 1 month
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desc: ugly, but home made without any electricity tools help. cause screwdriver is very expensive here, drill is expensive also and chain saw or saw machine is wew so much expensive. tools: just use hammer, nail, hand saw.
 
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i try to buy all my materials at auctions or what ever we have laying around the farm. we have 7 grown out pens with coops 8 breeding pens with coops we have 1 quail colony pen buitl inside one of the growout pens right now we may have $1000 plus we jsut bought more wire $100 were adding 5 more breeding pens.hey i even buy my beer on sale too we might have spent jsut ass much money on beer too lol. if you have live stock auctions around you they always have wire that goes chep and sometimes wood my wife jsut bought 8 4x4 8 foot long for a $1.
 
I spent about $500 for materials for the 4 X 6 by 6 ft high henhouse itself (2 by 4 construction, 3/8 plywood sheathing and cedar board and batten siding, coated with SoyGuard sealer, and a corrugated sheet metal roof, together with hardware cloth under the 3/4 plywood floor and below the metal roof to try to keep out rats...
...and then another approximately $450 for pressure treated 2 by 4's and several rolls of hardware cloth and wire mesh to construct a spacious chicken run built partly against the house, which encloses 354 sq feet.

All in all, pretty cheap for getting exactly what I want instead of buying anything prefab that I wouldn't like the looks of.
 
I have about $1500 in mine so far. Still need paint and a few odds and ends. It is built like a house from floor to roof. 8x12 and 2' double doors. A couple of windows for the flock to look outside. I look at it this way. If things go south for me and the wifey, I will have a place to stay!
 
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OK, now this is scary! Your coop sounds alot like mine, and my DH, Vince, has mentioned a few times that its built good enough for one of us to live in. I'm pretty sure he means me!
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OK, now this is scary! Your coop sounds alot like mine, and my DH, Vince, has mentioned a few times that its built good enough for one of us to live in. I'm pretty sure he means me!
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that's so funny. but by getting in one house with your folk, you have advantage that you can sleep with them and see whatever they do every second.
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We spent $15 on chicken wire, and used recycled building materials my husband collected in demolition, some old hinges and probaly $4 or $5 dollars in screws. So about $20, the labor and materials would equal another $200. It's small for 3-6 chickens, but easy to build, move, clean, and use. We invested $35 in seed, shell, straw and grit. and they get fresh food, greens, fruit and veggies everyday. It's hard to imagine how many eggs will justify my investment, so the people that have spent $500+ dollars really must luv there chickens. I do but not enough to pay that much. Of coarse with a hubby able to build it and collect the materials it did give me a few options.

It's an A frame 8 x5 x6 with an enclosed under area for there own security at nite, with an attached 12 x 12 yard for some added freedom. Roost and two nest boxs.
 

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