Before buying a chicken coop, educate yourself on avian influenza precautions, check local laws, and consider all the expenses. Along with a coop, you need to purchase chickens, feed, and other ...

Before looking at chicken coop designs, determine your jurisdiction—municipality, township, county, parish, or the like. Then, find the ordinances and laws regarding backyard chickens.

But that cost fails to factor in other investments, like the near $800 spent on our homemade chicken coop and money spent raising last year’s chicks when they weren’t laying eggs. Those costs ...