So you are suggesting almost 15 square feet per bird?
And of course there will be food and water as well as grit, calcium, nest boxes, roosting bars and lights on timers.
I'm not sure how long I will keep them in breeding pens. I guess as long as I want to keep hatching eggs from them. I think at this time that would be until some time in the spring.
I'm in Western Pennsylvania. They will not have a run but will be turned out every third day. I'm planning on 3...
When designing a breeding pen do you still use the 4 square feet per bird or does the square footage need to increase. These pens would be for large breed birds (Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Australorps). I'm thinking about 48 square feet for 10 hens and a rooster. What do you think?
When designing a breeding pen do you still use the 4 square feet per bird or does the square footage need to increase. These pens would be for large breed birds (Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Australorps). I'm thinking about 48 square feet for 10 hens and a rooster. What do you think?
I am a big man. They have lights on them about 13 hours a day. They are very calm birds, so I'm not sure that they are afraid of me. I was more concerned about the noise they are making. I'm afraid that it might be a respiratory problem.
I loaded a very short video to my facebook page. I tried all morning to load a longer video to youtube but it never upload and it wouldn't load to facebook either.
Here is the link bigtom.perkins
I recently bought 10 Rhode Island Reds hens and was told that they started laying around the 1st of October. The hens are very easy to pick up and hold and they make this soft almost purring sound, But now I'm wondering if that may be because they have a respiratory problem. I've only had them a...