To be short here, we have 19 chicks and the coop is a old metal garden shed. The run (for now) will be 12' x 6'. Is that ok? I read 4 sq ft for large fowl.
We haven't started the coop yet or yard. We are reinforcing it with wire fence and then adding chicken wire with a cement mote around the entire base of coop/yard. Should be good to go.
We are doing the coop made out of a garden metal shed starting next weekend. By then they should start the coop a little. We are chicken wiring the whole thing back to front with a good size yard for them to enjoy. And he is wanting to cement a mote around to prevent and stray cats and unwanted...
Good Evening Peeps! I am new here and husband decided since he is fluent on farming that we needed to add chickens to our lives. So we started out with 17. One smothered under the other ones over night. But, I am slowly naming them as the days progress. Here is Orpington Annie and Fryer Cluck. I...