Thoughts On This Coop From TSC

[Percheron chick]

Don't give them away. You should be able to get $10 at 6 weeks or $20 at POL. They're easy peasy to sell at POL.

 

[thisjed]

Don't give them away. You should be able to get $10 at 6 weeks or $20 at POL. They're easy peasy to sell at POL.

Dumb question - what's POL?

 

[thisjed]

Never mind - I googled it. Point of lay.

 

[Mr Pink]

I did about 5 min of searching and how about this as am option ...

https://www.google.com/shopping/pro...X&ved=0ahUKEwissZXnoKzSAhUGG5oKHcHgAZQQqisIYA

and 82 ft of electric poultry fence from Kencove about $100 ( which would give you basicly 20 x 20 run all for about $650 dollars )

 

[Knoble Chickens]

How about same idea as above, but with this shed? Less than half the price, make a run and you have it for the same price or less than the substandard kit.

https://www.amazon.com/Arrow-HM86-H...n&ie=UTF8&qid=1488063336&sr=1-2&keywords=shed

 

[thisjed]

Change of plans. I'm scraping the pre-made idea and and making a coop. After much research, it's just far more cost effective not to mention better quality (which is what all you told me, lol).

8'x4' coop with 14'x8' run. I'm potentially at 11 chicks now - so, 3 sf in the coop and 10 in the run w/ 6 nesting boxes.

I'm just going to carve the time out and do it. I already drew up the design and made my material list.

I'll post pics when I'm done - just need my tax return to show up to start. Thanks again for all the help!!!

 

[Percheron chick]

You can cut your nesting boxes down to 2-3. I have 20+ hens and they only use 2 boxes. I'll have up to 15 eggs in the preferred one

 

[wamtazlady]

I agree with Percheron chick. I have a dozen chickens and 3 nesting boxes. They lay in just 2 of the boxes.

 

[aart]

I agree with Percheron chick. I have a dozen chickens and 3 nesting boxes. They lay in just 2 of the boxes.

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I have 20 layers and 4 nests...I do use fakies to 'spread the love'.

 

[JurassicBawk]

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If anyone is thinking of doing the large metal run, let me tell you what I did for $300 total. My local Stockdales has 6' tall 10x10 chainlink panel "dog pens" for $199, with full walk-in gate. I got one of those and then put 1/4" hardwire mesh from halfway/3' up on the panels down to the ground and outwards another 2 feet for digging protection, then put a thick bird netting over the top and the remaining 3 feet on the chain link not covered by the hardwire mesh. I fully meshed the gate and wrapped it around the side where it is secured by multiple metal hooks/snaps to keep anything from going in the larger openings around the door. It makes a great solid pen that I can walk in and hang out with the birds, and they have a 4x4 raised house my dad built that is fully inside the pen they can go under/in/over so there's no wasted room. Their food/water/oyster all hang under the house, and they mostly sleep on top of the house, so they have a full 100 sq ft of room for 4 birds for much cheaper than anything prebuilt at TSC.