photo credit: Ikea Hacker

This spring we took the plunge and got a couple of chickens for our back yard. (we found a lot of information and support on backyardchickens.com)  I am so excited about it.  My husband is reluctantly participating.  The girls LOVE the chickens.  In making the chicken coop we did to the penny pinching thing and paid minimal for our coop.  We, and when I say “we” I mean my husband, built it out of pallets.  We got our pallets from a local business that had them sitting out back.  Asking the owner if we could have them we walked drove away with about 8 of them.

This morning my husband posted THIS article to his Twitter account about building a chicken coop out of Ikea products!  This would be a great way of repurposing these products if you had them on hand!  I love the look of it.  If you love it and want to build one but don’t want to purchase Ikea products at full price check out Craigslist or freecycle.  Lots of good penny pinching items to be found on these sites.

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