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Storey's guide will tell you 5sqft/chicken, but recently published books about small backyard flocks will say closer to 10. Really, try keeping 10 hens in a run that's 5ftx10ft and see the kind of poo that builds up, the way they pick on each other... if you can find a way to do it, make it...

They recommend 10sq ft per chicken for the run and 4sq ft per chicken for the coop (less for leghorns and bantams), but bigger is always better as the other posters have mentioned! My 8 girls are currently in a 20ftx30ft run, but there have also been times where they have been in a small run as...