About $700 and some salvage for the materials. Too many hours.
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My neighbors are working on their similar mecha-poultryfication.
I worry for the chickens because it backs up against a wildlife area with foxes, cats, red tails, norwegian tree rats, kestrals, squivverls, eagles, coyotes, raccoons (one of them growled at me while sitting in my garage last night ... little fucker).
But even though they send me hate pics I wish their thing well. Some great advice an old timer gave me once was, "Make your home grow food."
Lots of definite predator concerns when you have chickens. Though a full grow hen has zero to worry about from domestic cats.
The only predator we had problems with were hawks. They were taking 1-3 a year. We got geese. They instantly fixed that problem. Hawks hate geese and won't go anywhere near them. Free grass mowing, guard dogs, giant eggs. Geese are the best investment.