I think I finally figured out how I want to build a few coops. The coop 6x8, 5 ft tall raised off the ground with nestboxes attached outside. The attached run will be 8x15, 6 ft tall. How many bantams, how many standards can fit comfortably?
Q's on new coops
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If you're following the 10/4 "rule" (10 square feet of run per standard chicken, 4 square feet of coop per standard chicken) then you'll have exactly enough room for 12 standard chickens.
3 square feet per bantam sounds like a lot of room, unless the birds are going to be cooped up quite a bit.... I think 2.5 square feet sounds good, maybe 2 square feet if you have lots of roosting space for the bantams inside the coop and if they free range outside of the run. I would suggest around 18 bantams.... this gives about 2.7 square feet per bird in the coop and about 6.7 square feet per bird in the run.
If anyone wants to chip in on suggested run space per bantam I would appreciate it. I'm not entirely sure on what the "rule" is for bantams. Feel free to correct any of my errors.
These "rules" are subjective- a lot depends on your particular situation. Will the chickens spend time outside of the run? Will they have to stay in the coop sometimes due to the weather? How much roosting space is there? Etc.
3 square feet per bantam sounds like a lot of room, unless the birds are going to be cooped up quite a bit.... I think 2.5 square feet sounds good, maybe 2 square feet if you have lots of roosting space for the bantams inside the coop and if they free range outside of the run. I would suggest around 18 bantams.... this gives about 2.7 square feet per bird in the coop and about 6.7 square feet per bird in the run.
If anyone wants to chip in on suggested run space per bantam I would appreciate it. I'm not entirely sure on what the "rule" is for bantams. Feel free to correct any of my errors.
These "rules" are subjective- a lot depends on your particular situation. Will the chickens spend time outside of the run? Will they have to stay in the coop sometimes due to the weather? How much roosting space is there? Etc.
would depend on the bantams too surely?...some of the breeds* i've seen aren't that much smaller than standards.
* although i couldn't tell you which ones.
ETA: the key word in the question is comfortably in which case i'd say 4/3 is probably about right but if you think of them as pets which happen to make eggs then you can easily double that. 4/3 is a minimum, albeit a generally accepted safe and happy one.
* although i couldn't tell you which ones.
ETA: the key word in the question is comfortably in which case i'd say 4/3 is probably about right but if you think of them as pets which happen to make eggs then you can easily double that. 4/3 is a minimum, albeit a generally accepted safe and happy one.
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If that's the case, then I would definitely go for 3 square feet for bird in the coop, which would mean there's space for 16 bantams.
If that's the case, then I would definitely go for 3 square feet for bird in the coop, which would mean there's space for 16 bantams.
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