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Songster
I'm already suffering from chicken math and I'm just a newbie! We originally planned on having 6 hens but right now we have 9 chicks. We hatched out 5 of them so there are likely at least a few roos (one of the 5 is developing a more prominent comb than the others, but they are only 3 weeks old); and the other 4 we bought a week ago are guaranteed girls. If we really only have one roo in our flock that will leave us with 8 hens (plus I might try to convince DH to let us keep the roo too, lol), I want to make sure my coop plans are sufficient for this many birds... building is starting this week!
The plan is for the coop to have a floor area of 6ft x 4ft, plus a 2ft x 4ft loft area. So that makes 32sq-ft total... that should be enough for 8 full size birds, right? *Mostly Rhode Island Reds and Black Australorps. What if I convince DH to keep the roo for a total of 9 birds? All 9 of them will be out there for a while until we can determine which are really the roos anyway and I want to be sure they'll have enough space.
Oh, they'll also have an attached ~6ft x 13ft run to be out in during the day (roughly 9-10sq-ft per bird).
The plan is for the coop to have a floor area of 6ft x 4ft, plus a 2ft x 4ft loft area. So that makes 32sq-ft total... that should be enough for 8 full size birds, right? *Mostly Rhode Island Reds and Black Australorps. What if I convince DH to keep the roo for a total of 9 birds? All 9 of them will be out there for a while until we can determine which are really the roos anyway and I want to be sure they'll have enough space.
Oh, they'll also have an attached ~6ft x 13ft run to be out in during the day (roughly 9-10sq-ft per bird).