PeachLily
In the Brooder
- Jun 8, 2016
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Hi, I'm a new member, first time chicken owner with 13 lovely babies! It is addicting, I had no clue this would happen to me. Very excited to be on this new adventure, and could use a lot of advice. After lurking the boards and reading a lot, I still have questions on the optimal size for building roosting bars with their corresponding poop boards. We plan on putting in 2 step-staggered roosting bars and just want to know what the least amount of distance should be on extending the poop board out from the lower bar to try and catch most of the poop. Is 6 inches too little? The main concern is because I have 3 light brahmas in my flock, and I understand they get to be large - I cannot find anything that tells me how many inches LONG a brahma is when full-grown, and am trying to account for that. But I need to conserve on space, as well. Thanks!
