Your Chicken Budget!

[kattabelly]

My bank app says I've spent £450 ($600 US) at the local ag co-op where I buy my feed in the last six months, but some of that would be for one-off purchases like tools, hardware, other equipment or clothing and only some of those are chicken-related.

Food (a commercial feed and extras like sardines) is really the only regular, ongoing cost. I'll buy wood pellets for incubator chicks until they're outdoors full-time but try not to pay for bedding/nesting materials for the older birds when I can use homemade hay or bracken or something else that's free. Fine beach gravel collected from a spot where there's lots of shell does for both calcium and grit, although I'll buy a small bag once or twice a year out of laziness.

One-off or very irregular expenses like adding or replacing housing, fencing etc obviously adds quite a bit on to those costs when there's a lot needing done.

I always have "around 20” chickens.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Not sure about it, because we do not budget for them.
We also have ducks and four large dogs. No turkeys right now, except what’s in the freezer.
Hubby and son built a new coop this year - approximately $4500.
It’s the forever coop for my chickens.

 

[cavemanrich]

It’s the forever coop for my chickens.

Luv to see a picture

 

[Rangergord]

Many of my costs are covered because I sell my extra eggs and ready to lay pullets. Feed costs, the eggs I eat, straw litter, roll away nesting boxes, chicken heater, water heater, Fencing, automatic door, it all is paid for by customers. Building my coop was a lot of work and several hundred dollars in new materials, along with repurposed lumber, doors, windows and sheet goods. Spread out over multiple flocks my coop cost is low. My time is not paid for either, good thing I like doing it.

 

[cavemanrich]

Many of my costs are covered because I sell my extra eggs and ready to lay pullets. Feed costs, the eggs I eat, straw litter, roll away nesting boxes, chicken heater, water heater, Fencing, automatic door, it all is paid for by customers. Building my coop was a lot of work and several hundred dollars in new materials, along with repurposed lumber, doors, windows and sheet goods. Spread out over multiple flocks my coop cost is low. My time is not paid for either, good thing I like doing it.

How large is your Egg producing flock???

 

[Rangergord]

How large is your Egg producing flock???

8 Hens. Sell $96 CAD worth of eggs per month ATM

 

[BlueBaby]

My dream come true, 750 pet chickens now I need to think of names…

If they come through him, then they are all named Moony. That keeps it simple.