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  1. ChickenCanoe

    I just don't have the skills and need some advice on purchased coops

    I wouldn't mind it so much if they put a warning notice in the advertisement that if someone were to stick 15 birds in there, they would need to debeak the birds so they didn't cannibalize each other. Just like on egg farms. So true.
  2. ChickenCanoe

    I just don't have the skills and need some advice on purchased coops

    WOW! What's depressing about that is that people may believe they could actually cram 15 birds in there. I guess if they rode on each other's backs. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they take the number of birds that fit into a layer cage on an egg farm and extrapolate from there. I...
  3. ChickenCanoe

    I just don't have the skills and need some advice on purchased coops

    Keep your small coop when you get the one you want. One always needs emergency secondary housing. It can be used to quarantine new birds, injured, sick and as a broody apartment for hatching and raising chicks. Part of that career will be building coops. So true. That separation is tough.
  4. ChickenCanoe

    I just don't have the skills and need some advice on purchased coops

    My best advice is not to purchase a premade coop. They are overpriced and all grossly over exaggerate how many chickens the building will hold. I often see coops that say they can hold 15 and they're barely adequate for 4. They apparently are companies that do building but know nothing about...
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