Need help with a cheap chicken run for 5 chickens

[U_Stormcrow]

and I would call it, at best, predator delaying. NOT predator proof.

 

[McChooky]

Most of us have a budget is why I used scrap lumber from a construction site and pallets. I've added a lot to mine since I first built it. Now its got lots of roosts and poop boards then I divided it so I can raise my chicks on one end. It definitely isn't for everyone but it works for me

 

[Chickenreds]

That's right. Nothing prefab in that price range is going to work for you. The hawks means it has to be covered, and trash panda can defeat almost any defense.

If you had only larger, ground based predators, a roll of fence and some poles would do it for you - but trash panda will reach right thru a chain link or woven wire fence, grab a bird and pull enough of it out to kill and start eating.

I'm a think on it, but nothing comes immediately to mind. hopefully someone else will have a bright thought.

Closest I can get is, essentially, a Salatin-style chicken "tractor", 8' x 8' x 4' using this (or equivalent) in 8' foot sections, 1x each wall, 2x for the roof, and using the rest of the budget for 2x4x8 PT lumber for the frame. 4 for the bottom square, 4 for the top square, 3for the walls, 3 for the top. Your remaining $30 goes for screws, brackets, and some way to get chickens in and out.

a beefier version of this :

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I really like this suggestion but I have some concerns about it being hard to clean also I do have some upcycle-able materials on second thought. Got all the parts of an unbuilt shed enough to rebuild it I believe. However I think it's too small for a chicken run but could I do anything with it?

 

[aart]

At night I can manually transport them into the coop

That will get very old, very fast.
Why not attach the run to the coop?

 

[tlcmurphy]

and I would call it, at best, predator delaying. NOT predator proof.

Predator resistant.

 

[Chickenreds]

That will get very old, very fast.
Why not attach the run to the coop?

Yeah I'm probably gonna end up doing when I get the run situation fixed.The coop as of now used to be attached to a run but now it isn't so I had to put it up against a wall. There isn't an entrance for the chickens to get into so I put them in through the drawer myself.

 

[Sefirothe]

I really like this suggestion but I have some concerns about it being hard to clean also I do have some upcycle-able materials on second thought. Got all the parts of an unbuilt shed enough to rebuild it I believe. However I think it's too small for a chicken run but could I do anything with it?

That looks like the little storage thing I keep some of my lawn care stuff in. If its the same it would NOT be predator proof in any manner with out a lot of securing pieces to each other. I've had a good gust of wind blow it over and collapse it. A raccoon would easily gain entry.

 

[aart]

Yeah I'm probably gonna end up doing when I get the run situation fixed.The coop as of now used to be attached to a run but now it isn't so I had to put it up against a wall. There isn't an entrance for the chickens to get into so I put them in through the drawer myself.

Pics of the coop?

 

[chooki]

It depends on how much effort you are willing to put into building such a chicken run.

I have used pallets + wire mesh to build the chicken run for my rooster flock. Then a prefabbed coop inside the run to shelter them from extreme weathers.

It has costed me under $200 and it's very safe, we have wild dogs and foxes, plus regular eagles. It is not very pretty though.

 

[Chickenreds]

It depends on how much effort you are willing to put into building such a chicken run.

I have used pallets + wire mesh to build the chicken run for my rooster flock. Then a prefabbed coop inside the run to shelter them from extreme weathers.

It has costed me under $200 and it's very safe, we have wild dogs and foxes, plus regular eagles. It is not very pretty th

It depends on how much effort you are willing to put into building such a chicken run.

I have used pallets + wire mesh to build the chicken run for my rooster flock. Then a prefabbed coop inside the run to shelter them from extreme weathers.

It has costed me under $200 and it's very safe, we have wild dogs and foxes, plus regular eagles. It is not very pretty though.

I heard raccoons can break through wire mesh though. I could just put the chickens into the run at daytime and then take them out but I heard sometimes there's a chance they come at day though and I'm not trying to lose the whole flock.