The internal nesting boxes will only take up 4 feet of space … hmmm
That leaves you with 21 square feet. If you have feed or water or both inside even more usable floor space is needing subtracted
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The internal nesting boxes will only take up 4 feet of space … hmmm
That leaves you with 21 square feet. If you have feed or water or both inside even more usable floor space is needing subtracted
That leaves you with 21 square feet. If you have feed or water or both inside even more usable floor space is needing subtracted
Okay, good to know .I won’t be getting anymore chickens haha. 4 square feet sounds like a lot per bird inside a coup tho … I mean you have to take in account that they will be more than likely be using the roosting bars to sleep too… I do understand the run being a measurement to watch out for, but the coop should hold the 13 comfortable if 5 birds can roost on each bar at minimum…I’ll have to reevaluate the number of birds that I have once they get full grownGood that you have that outside the coop. That saves space.
I still say the maximum is 5.
If your nesting boxes are taking up part of that 25 SQ ft then, you don't have 25 SQ feet. I think 5-6 is maximum. Your birds don't have enough coop space with that small of a coop. I would honestly consider adding some coop space. We have 620 ft of run space and we have 2 coops. One is 80 SQ feet and houses 20 birds. Our other coop is large enough to house house 40 birds. So - since our coops will only house a total of 60, that's all we can have. You don't add the run space to that.The internal nesting boxes will only take up 4 feet of space … hmmm
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Okay, good to know .I won’t be getting anymore chickens haha. 4 square feet sounds like a lot per bird inside a coup tho … I mean you have to take in account that they will be more than likely be using the roosting bars to sleep too… I do understand the run being a measurement to watch out for, but the coop should hold the 13 comfortable if 5 birds can roost on each bar at minimum…I’ll have to reevaluate the number of birds that I have once they get full grown![]()
That may be what you're hearing, but what people are saying is that you should par it down to 5.So what I’m hearing is I should stick with the 13.
I don’t think it’s “small” it’s actually one of the larger coups I have seenIf your nesting boxes are taking up part of that 25 SQ ft then, you don't have 25 SQ feet. I think 5-6 is maximum. Your birds don't have enough coop space with that small of a coop. I would honestly consider adding some coop space. We have 620 ft of run space and we have 2 coops. One is 80 SQ feet and houses 20 birds. Our other coop is large enough to house house 40 birds. So - since our coops will only house a total of 60, that's all we can have. You don't add the run space to that.
If you have 15 birds, you should have 60 SQ ft coop AND 150 SQ FT run.