Initial costs:-Chicken coop for up to four birds -£169 free delivery. Internet purchase.
3 Chickens plus 'starter pack' from Kirsty at HensforHomes near Stansted - £95
Starter pack includes feed for 8 weeks, spice (to add to feed) lice powder, feed tray, water dispenser, woodshavings (for henhouse floor), small bag of grit which "should last forever" We could probably have bought this starter pack for less had we bought the items separately but we paid for the convenience.
You should know that there's fierce competition in the chicken coop style wars. There's the basic triangular 'ark', the trad, square chicken house and new kid on the block the 'eglu' - the ipod of chicken des res. This looks like a discarded imac computer sitting in your garden which I'm sure many will love but with birds and feed etc comes in at about double the price we paid for everything above.
Ongoing costs - not sure, but back of a fag packet calculations have shown that we should break even on egg production/consumption costs within the year.
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