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I'll bow out of the thread now and apologize to the OP for all the unnecessary bickering my advice has sparked. Some of you folks need a serious chill pill or some kind of relaxation method...maybe even put the large chip on the shoulder down and take a rest...it's a chicken forum, not a place...

For one, I'm not a "he". And the answer to your continued aggressive questioning can be found in the post a few up from this one.

Condescension answers condescension and mine was not the first. The tone of the posts that harangued me for my opinion were just that..aggressive and condescending. I changed my original idea because I had misread the dimensions of the coop at first read. You are the one making a big deal...

Because I was working on what was stated and not assuming they would be free ranged. They didn't specify. And unhealthy conditions for chickens ARE associated by having too many chickens in a small space. Now, if they had said they will be sleeping here but will be free ranging, the response...

They do it all the time! Thousands, in fact. But one doesn't have to invest hundreds of dollars to house 3 chickens. It's interesting that you think you dog is somehow deserving of better treatment than other animals simply because he has a name. That's more than a little scary...

Really? You think food should be treated worse than pets? Because they are food? Move over big agribiz, the backyarder is going to take over the CAFO business! Mine are not pets either but they still deserve a quality of life as they produce food and before they die for our table. I doubt...

That's a little different now, isn't it? Yours are not confined forever to a coop and run and they have fresh soils on which to run and socialize, to get away from one another and to just BE. When you free range you can get by with a little less living room because they live in the big wide...

Are you serious? 16 sq/f per bird is madness! You are saying the 6x8 shed I have in my yard will only hold 3 chickens! No one is arguing how many it will HOLD...you could stuff any number of birds in that space. One is weighing the merits of quality of life in that space. It's basically a...

How many years have they lived there?

You are talking about a 4x6 coop that has a 4x12 ft. run. You can keep one chicken for that amount of coop space and it still have a comfortable life~if you can call that level of confinement comfortable. Unless you live where it never gets cold, you really can't count your run as "space" for...