MULTIPLE CHICKEN COOPS

[shmeggs]

I have 2 coops now and feel like I need maybe 2 more coops. does most people have multiple coops or a single big coop.

 

[LindaB220]

I have 2 coops now and feel like I need maybe 2 more coops. does most people have multiple coops or a single big coop.

Hey shmeggs, I have a larger one and a small one and need at least another large one. Mine is 7.5' x 12' and the small is 4' x 6'. Just using it for babies now but got 33 in the incubator now. Gotta get busy.

 

[chicksurreal]

We have one large coop, one small coop and are in the process of building a much larger coop for more chicks we want to get later this year. I could see us eventually having 2 or 3 more than that eventually. Chicken math at work.

 

[Anna6]

We have multiple coops. Some are for younger chickens and some are to keep pure hatching eggs. We also have water fowl. Nine plus coops so far.

 

[RJSorensen]

I have a new 10' x 14' and an older 12' x 20' coop. I want more… If I had a horse barn, that would be just great by me. Forty or sixty feet long and at least 12' wide might keep my dreams busy for a while. But three the size of what I have will most likely have to do. Something about chickens makes one get the Noah's Ark syndrome, need at least two of everything.

I guess my advise is build big and build often.

RJ

 

[LindaB220]

I have a new 10' x 14' and an older 12' x 20' coop. I want more… If I had a horse barn, that would be just great by me. Forty or sixty feet long and at least 12' wide might keep my dreams busy for a while. But three the size of what I have will most likely have to do. Something about chickens makes one get the Noah's Ark syndrome, need at least two of everything.

I guess my advise is build big and build often.

RJ

I really envy you your coops.

 

[chicksurreal]

I really envy you your coops.

X2

 

[chicksurreal]

I have a new 10' x 14' and an older 12' x 20' coop. I want more… If I had a horse barn, that would be just great by me. Forty or sixty feet long and at least 12' wide might keep my dreams busy for a while. But three the size of what I have will most likely have to do. Something about chickens makes one get the Noah's Ark syndrome, need at least two of everything.

I guess my advise is build big and build often.

RJ

Awesome advise. I never realized how much I would love to own chickens, and the more the merrier. We have 5 acres surrounded by wilderness, so...yeah. I could see some serious space being used for chickens.

 

[RJSorensen]

Thanks, but you guys are making me blush…

RJ

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Coops are also effected by chicken math, the more chickens you get (which you will

), the more coops you'll need.

You can never have enough chicken coops!!!

I have 1 big for most of my chickens to roost in, then I have another nesting coop which I am converting into the pullet pen. I also have two breeding pens (for the breeding season) and finally one little tractor which has a broody mum and her babies in it.