aunt betty wrote:assateague wrote:Final tally on the coop- $609.70. Not as bad as I feared.
Hom much is that per egg including feed ?
Before you whig on me...I gotta build a shed too. Lawnmower n gardening stuff.
Wanting to build onto each side.
Greenhouse on one side and chicken coop on other. Still in planning stage.
Could easily encorporate your chicken coop ideas.
Nice work.
The way I've figured it, it'll be paid off in about 3 years. A little less, if I count the chickens which are gonna get eaten. We go through 2 dozen eggs a week, at $2 a dozen for store bought. If I was figuring it at $4 a dozen for the fresh, organic, that'd be cut in half, but that seems like "cheating", so I just calculated based off of store bought. Feed is free. I'm eventually going to expand mine, to incorporate the pump house next to it (making a full 8' pump house, instead of a crawl space-type deal), and run the roof over the big pole barn, to make a place to store my firewood under cover.