farmland1
In the Brooder
New chicken owner.
We have 5 Wyandotte hens 9 weeks old. Bought from hatchery. Healthy. They are not vaccinated for Mareks. We also have 8 Guinea keets but I was planning to house them separate.
I need a coop for them ASAP and found a nice 2yr old used one for a great price. But I just found out today there's a catch....they want me to take in their 5 adult hens too. Two hens are silkies. Don't know the breed of the others but they were bigger. They are moving and selling all their animals (horses and chickens).
I believe they purchased all their hens as chicks from a local breeder. They are all 2 yrs old. They have had a very large living quarters between their 12 x 5 coop and then a 100 ft x 60 ft caged run. The run had mostly a gravel floor.
What are the risks of taking in these hens and incorporating them with my 5 young hens? I had planned to really clean out this coop and cover the inside with paint to eliminate disease risk. But taking in his hens too is another story.
Do you think a 12x5 ft coop (looks like the inside is 6x5) is big enough for 10 hens? It has 5 nesting boxes.
We were probably going to attach some kind of caged run over grass (may producer's pride, etc). We have plenty of land for all the chickens but the hawks are a problem for free range.
We have 5 Wyandotte hens 9 weeks old. Bought from hatchery. Healthy. They are not vaccinated for Mareks. We also have 8 Guinea keets but I was planning to house them separate.
I need a coop for them ASAP and found a nice 2yr old used one for a great price. But I just found out today there's a catch....they want me to take in their 5 adult hens too. Two hens are silkies. Don't know the breed of the others but they were bigger. They are moving and selling all their animals (horses and chickens).
I believe they purchased all their hens as chicks from a local breeder. They are all 2 yrs old. They have had a very large living quarters between their 12 x 5 coop and then a 100 ft x 60 ft caged run. The run had mostly a gravel floor.
What are the risks of taking in these hens and incorporating them with my 5 young hens? I had planned to really clean out this coop and cover the inside with paint to eliminate disease risk. But taking in his hens too is another story.
Do you think a 12x5 ft coop (looks like the inside is 6x5) is big enough for 10 hens? It has 5 nesting boxes.
We were probably going to attach some kind of caged run over grass (may producer's pride, etc). We have plenty of land for all the chickens but the hawks are a problem for free range.