How Many Feeders/Waterers? Advice Please! **Newbie**

We currently have 30 chicks and are in the process of finishing the coop/run they are going to be transferred to from the brooder. I think I am on information overload too

Coop is approx 8 x 13 (104 sq ft) (nestting boxes not included in sq feet - they extend out from wall)
Run is 24 x 26 (624 sq ft)

For 30 mature laying hens (actually we think 1 is a roo) how many feeder/ water set ups do you all recommend?

We have been thinking of installing a automatic bowl waterer in the run and against the coop under an awning, but I assume I will need at least a hanging waterer inside the coop for at night.

What about feeders? Do I need to have one inside the coop as well or can I leave the feeders to in the run under the awning only?

I dont want the chickens to "hang out" in the coop during the day so I was thinking if their food was outside, then they would have to GO OUT! Am I correct?

Thank you in advance!

I'm a newbe but I would do 2 of each.

Why don't you want the chickens to hang out inside the coop during the day?

Would you put both a water and feed inside the coop because they don't like going outside at night in the dark?

Just asking cause I don't know?

Two of each would probably be good. I would definitely do an automatic waterer of some sort or you will be cleaning out the hanging waterer every few days. I had 17 chickens over the coldest part of the winter and I still had to clean that darn hanging waterer at least once a week...what a pain! I think it's fine to have the food outside only under the awning as long as 1) you don't have squirrels, mice, etc. that will eat it 2) you don't have blowing rain that will get it wet.

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Thanks Shandra. Our girls seem to be very curious when we have put them out in the "temporary" run that we created by wrapping chicken wire around the bottom of the kids trampoline. Our brooder is small enough (yet big enough) that we can pick it up with me, my daughter and my husband and move it out to the yard with the small run. The girls are only 4 weeks old, so this has been how we are slowing introducing them to the idea of not being in such a small area and they appear to really love acting like chickens and having scratching and "flying" around. However, we have a few lazy girls that seemed to only want to hang out in the enclosed portion of the brooder when we "let them free".

I dont want us to have to spend ALOT of time on cleaning the coop once we move them there, and I was hoping that by only having the food outside the run (and under a covered section) that they would "go out" to eat.

Now this makes me think more.... Do they need to have food once we put them in at night or is having a water source enough? I surely dont want to harm the girls by not giving them food. But do they need to have food after they go in at night?

Does everyone put feeders inside the coop as well as in the run? I am wrong in my thinking?

I have a pvc feeder inside the tractor hanging on the wall. I also have a hanging waterer inside and two waterers outside in the run. We move our girls almost every day to a fresh patch of lawn. If they want pellets, they run into the tractor to eat then run back out. Same goes for oyster shell. I dont have to worry about the feed getting wet or pilfered by anything else. I like to have plenty of water available at all times. Really, its your personal preference. You have to do what works best for you.