They're super rewarding and lots of fun. They've probably nearly paid themselves off just with #dailychicken posts too! Hahahah
Looking back, I wonder if we did chickens wrong. Our first four birds (we ate the extra rooster) were bought with a coop and run that I found on craigslist. I forget how much, but I want to say $200. It took a week and another $100 for the uhaul to get the whole assembled thing over here, and I think we could have done it much cheaper than that.
Pallets could have been found for free, and they're the majority of the run, plus I think twelve 2x4s and chicken wire. The coop is ten 2x4s, four 4x4s, three sheets of siding, and some corrugated metal for the roof. Not sure the retail cost, but I think I overpaid lol
The six chicks we bought after that were like $24, and the whole chick raising setup only cost probably $85 with chicks and their first bag of feed included.
To do it again myself, I'd use pallets, chicken wire, and t posts (pallets optional) for the run, and make a small coop myself. The t posts would make it easy to move the run when I wanted.
They've probably nearly paid themselves off just with #dailychicken posts too!
I literally 😂 when I read that, it's funny cos it's true! I'm hoping my worms pay for themselves in crypto too! 😂
Thanks for the tips on your chicken setup. We are renting here for another year so it's a ways off, but I'm one of those people who reads shit and stores it away in my brain like a squirrel with a nut.
I'll keep my eye out for more chicken posts. I imagine we'd be doing coop construction in a year or so.
Thanks nate!
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