Cheap Chicken Coop DIY Ideas?

[jokies838]

Yep but they don't look or taste the same. We also get enjoyment out of just having them around and watching their antics. My 80yr old neighbor has told me he loves to hear them making their chicken noises because it reminds him of his childhood. Any extra eggs we get go to my neighbors who also prefer them over store bought. We don't eat the chickens. We live in city limits so I don't have a rooster.

Most of our eggs go towards making breakfast burritos. My wife uses about 40+ eggs to scramble up with cheese and ham. She wraps it up in flour tortillas and flash freezes 3 or 4 cookie sheets of burritos. Once froze they go into ziplok bags and anytime we want a breakfast burrito we just stick in the microwave.

We also scramble up the extra eggs and then dehydrate them and place them in jars for later.

Haha I love that burrito idea. I sprinkle Roosty's Dewormer on my hens' feed and the eggs come out super clean. It's a simple way to keep their guts happy.

 

[rockyfatcat]

Haha I love that burrito idea

Do you realize that you responded to and resurrected a dead thread?

Are you interested in getting into raising chickens?

 

[testdepth]

Do you realize that you responded to and resurrected a dead thread?

Are you interested in gettinh into raising chickens?

Long live this thread!

 

[CrzTyler]

We have a coop with a legit subfloor, roof, siding, runner etc. My neighbor built it and moved out, he offered it to me and helped me cut the wall framing, subfloor etc with a sawsall. I transported it over and put the pieces back together, he probably had 2k in this thing.
My wife wanted it so bad, I rushed to get it torn apart and back together two days before she bore our 4th child lol.

We have another one we used to house our chickens in, it’s a retriever 10x10 chain link dog pen that we framed a gable roof over with pvc pipes and tarps. Surprisingly, we never had any issues. I threw an extra heavy duty tarp over it last year just to be preventative. We’re actually about to get rid of it, if you have a 10 ft trailer and some time on your hands, you can come take it for free.


Edit : didn’t realize this was a revived thread…. Still have the extra coop if anyone wants it lol