How much did your coop cost?

[teach1rusl]

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Well I sincerely wish you luck!! lol I think you'll be surprised at how quickly those quick trips to Lowes or Home Depot add up though. Keep all of your receipts (just stick them in an envelope before you even think about it) and add them up when you're done. a 12 x 16 building is pretty big!

Mine ended up costing about $1300. But the only thing we really had that was free was the metal roofing (and we still had to buy the trim and ridge cap for that)... We did get a door I love from Salvation Army for $20...double paned glass in it to let in lots of sunlight...

 

[teach1rusl]

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That sure is pretty!!! And K8tie Cat...that sure is a pretty rooster there in that one shot!

 

[Uzuri]

Too much.









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OK, about $800. I'm not counting feeder/waterer/anything that didn't actually make up a part of the coop.

 

[Luna_Chick66]

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That sure is pretty!!! And K8tie Cat...that sure is a pretty rooster there in that one shot!

Thanks! I have more progress pics with the black hardware cloth on and the door on.

I am also looking forward to planting in there come the spring. First order of buisness is a grape vine, I think.

 

[vstoltzfus]

Around $300. We built it to match the style of our house. It has 2 windows, siding, asphalt roof, etc. My husband is a carpenter, so labor was $0. Should have made it bigger, though!!!

 

[tuffy]

Just added on a 8x8 addition to the old coop. Somehow I ended up with too many chickens (37)
My hubby and I made a game out of "how cheap can we do it" Lots of materials donated by friends, Lowes had a large bundle of 2x4's for $25, 2 windows given to us by friends, area carpet guy donated left over vinyl pieces, gallon of "wrong color paint"$6 at Ace, metal roofing given to us by a friend, Home Depot had slightly damaged plywood for $4 a sheet, lots of our own stuff found around in the barn~
Total $ 48! The new coop is great, 16x8 with lots of Stuff- nest boxes made out of old dresser drawers headed for the dump, built in feeder, lined with vinyl so the food will slide down easy, roosts with dropping pit underneath made out of scrap lumber, old hinges taken off junk doors reused. We had a great time recycling and the chickens love their new "Cheap Chick Hotel"
Pix to follow when the painting is done.
Thanks to all the great info on this site, we planned and replanned and the result is just what every well cared for chicken hopes for!

 

[MimiChick]

We built a playhouse coop from purchased plans and it cost about $500 for everything except the chickens. It's 4x8 and I have 3 chicks safe from predators when I'm not home. We all love it. And with the wheels on it, we can relocate to fresh grass whenever we want.


It still needs the trim put on and painted, and the bottom painted, but the chicks seem very happy.

 

[wyomingsundancer]

About $600. Got the dog run used $200. Playhouse - reduced $100. Misc. items such as wheels, tarp etc $300.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/3954140514_753506df29_b.jpg

 

[mandelyn]

So far I'm at $4, but I need one more roll of rabbit wire, one small roll of chicken wire, 4 more 2x4's, and prolly 6 bags of sand. Oh, and some staples. But considering I have it 9/10's of the way done, $4 ain't bad!

Used an exisisting building, needed some minor alterations. Scrap wood came out of the basement... this is a scavenging household that saves every piece of lumber that comes our way. What I used had water damage on one end from when the basement flooded. We were going to burn it, but instead I cut the bad ends off.

Already had 25 feet of rabbit wire. I think it might have been from my childhood rabbits even.

The building I wanted was $1600, a 10x16 Gable roofed shed delivered, built, and finished by someone else. Custom, with a rear door, the back 6 feet for chickens, insulated divider wall, front 10 feet used as garden/outdoor storage, so that I could rationalize $600 to the chickens, $1000 to permanent, usuable storage space.

Still the plan, when money permits. The converted dog house, big as it is, doesn't have the head room for roosting standards. Perfect for the Bantams, but I want some layers too.

But I know a guy that knows a guy who liquidates lumber for cheap (2x4x10L for $3 treated), and a cousin works at Lowe's (20% off!), combined with watching CL like a hawk, and being an opportunist when driving around... and I've never paid full price to build anything! Being a pack rat helps too. This house has been "under renovation" for like 20 years... so there's scrap everything. Even "scrap" windows... my next coop will have an Anderson douple-pane insulated wood framed picture window.

 

[Pupsnpullets]

For a 4' x 4' house and 4' x 10' mine cost around $230. It would have been cheaper than that if I'd have realised the guy helping me was half blind and couldn't read the plans

. I'd wanted a 4 x3 house and an 4 x 12 run. By getting the directions wrong and another couple of little mistakes ie overlapping the wire of the droppings area, caused me to have to buy another roll of hardware cloth. However, I'm grateful for the assistance I received and the girls don't seem to have any issues with it.