roberthleeii
In the Brooder
Chicken math got to me… I got a free coop from a coworker and decided it would be nice to have 3 or 4 chickens… I am up to 7 and the poorly designed free coop is struggling to sustain them. I have decided that I would like around 15 chickens so of course I probably need to build a coop big enough to support 30 ![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
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Our chickens spend dawn to dusk free ranging around our property and the new run I am going to build is going to be in the 300 – 400 sqft range just in case we have to leave them in there for any periods of time. Food and water will be available and accessible 24/7 in the run. They would just be using the coop area for roosting purposes.
My question is, how big of a enclosed coop area do I really need? My current plan is something in the 8’x12’ size. Is that good? Too big? Too small?
Thanks in advance,
Robert
![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
Our chickens spend dawn to dusk free ranging around our property and the new run I am going to build is going to be in the 300 – 400 sqft range just in case we have to leave them in there for any periods of time. Food and water will be available and accessible 24/7 in the run. They would just be using the coop area for roosting purposes.
My question is, how big of a enclosed coop area do I really need? My current plan is something in the 8’x12’ size. Is that good? Too big? Too small?
Thanks in advance,
Robert