Your Checklist And Budget Is On The Way
You asked for the Backyard Chicken Startup Checklist And Budget. Here is exactly how it reaches you, where to download it right now if you would rather not wait, and what the emails after it cover.
Three Steps, Then It Stops
The whole sequence, so nothing about it is a surprise.
Confirm your address
Look for an email from hello@homesteadmath.com asking you to confirm. Nothing sends until you click that link — that is what double opt-in means, and it is the only reason we can be sure you asked for this. If you already clicked it, this step is done.
The files arrive by email
Once you confirm, an email with both download links follows, usually within a few minutes. The links point at this site rather than at an attachment, so a corrected or expanded file reaches you at the same link later.
One short planning email follows
A few days after the files, one email covers the startup costs first-year budgets usually miss, and links back to the free calculators for working them with your own numbers. Then it stops — there is no longer sequence behind it. Unsubscribe from it and nothing further sends.
Not seeing the email? Give it a few minutes, then check the spam or promotions folder for hello@homesteadmath.com. If it never lands, email hello@homesteadmath.com and we will send the files directly. You can also just take them below — you are not stuck waiting on us either way.
You Do Not Have To Wait For The Email
Every subscriber gets these same two files; nothing is generated per person. The email is the durable copy you can find again later, not a different or better version.
- Thirteen local-ordinance questions to ask before you buy birds
- Coop, run, and equipment planning steps with space and protection notes
- A one-time startup budget and a monthly recurring budget that total themselves
These are planning estimates to work from, not veterinary, structural, or code guidance. Check local rules and conditions before spending money or bringing birds home.
Chicken Startup Budget and Shopping Planner
The free checklist gets you to a first-pass budget. The planner is for the next step: comparing what a setup actually costs three different ways before you spend anything.
What it would include
- Low, base, and high startup scenarios side by side, so a budget is a range rather than one number
- An equipment comparison table for weighing prefab against built, and cheap against durable
- A first-year budget that carries one-time setup into recurring feed, bedding, and supply costs
- A coop and run measurement worksheet for checking a layout against the space you have
- A purchase and setup checklist ordered the way the work actually happens
$12–$25a planned price range we are still testing, not a set price
The files are built, but it is not for sale — nothing is listed yet, and we are not going to give you a date we cannot keep. Nothing on this page can be bought today.
Noted — thank you. There is still no date and nothing is for sale. When the planner is ready it is announced in the same chicken planning emails as the checklist, so there is no separate list to join. If you want to shape what goes in it, email us and say what you are planning. hello@homesteadmath.com
Keep Working Through The Planning Path
The checklist follows the same order as the free tools: space, then startup cost, then recurring cost, then eggs. Pick up wherever you left off.