ok but i feel uncomfortable referring to him/her as a him if i dont know if he/she is comfortable with that. after all, animals can be transgendered. https://www.vice.com/en/article/8x8bez/yes-there-are-trans-animals
ok so this is going to seem like a strange question. i have a chicken that looks like a rooster. everyone says he’s a rooster, he has spurs etc, BUT he acts like a hen. it feels wrong to give him a male gendered names, does anyone have experience with this? im worried he identifies more as a hen...
true it might not be enough for more, but even if i did 3sqft for each when everything ive read says 2-4 then they would need 33 sqft and i have 40 so it does meet the requirements.
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40 square foot coop is too small
for 11 chickens? i disagree if following the 2-4sqft rule but maybe u didnt see that i upadated thay i measurered wrong when i got the 24 asqft
i live in alabama, so its warm all year until winter when it can get down to 20’s occasionally. maybe i could just put a heater and tarp in there. another idea i had was ‘adding on the the coop’ by putting a wooden dog house in the ‘run’ part.
what qualifies as a coop? it had hardware cloth around it and a roof and straw on the ground and roosting bars then it had a wooden box coop thats 24sqft but they never go in there unless theyre sleeping and then they just roost on the bars in there
yup we let them out in chicken tractors during the day, at around 7am and then let them free range from around 4-7:45. then we lock them up in the coop at night and they all just roost in the wood coop at night and play in the built in run for a bit before we let them out. also, i live in the...
i am doing a project where i raise ten more chickens, and have a friend with a smaller coop than me who has 18 chickens happily in there. since they’re free range, i was sort of including the coop and run as the same thing and that would be 96 square feet which could hold 20 birds. make sense...
This is my coop. we have 11 chickens, but want to get 9 more. we free range them during the day, and the dimensions of the coop box (the wooden part) is 6x4 feet, and the built in run attached is 6x12 feet. Could we keep 20 chickens in here?