8 Seramas

[Newseramabreeder]

I have 9 Seramas and 6 Seramas chicks it’s in the dead winter rn and I have them in small cages the building is about 15 feet by 15 feet now apparently people say the cages are to small so if that’s the case someone please tell me how I’m gonna build massive cages in such a small building? Any suggestions?

 

[Boise-girls]

Do they ALL have to be separated? Fewer cages would allow for larger cages.

 

[Windrider]

15 x 15 feet is a respectable size building. What is limiting you to small cages instead of using the whole building?

 

[Windrider]

I saw on your other thread that you have three pairs in tiny cages. You should set up something like this in your 15 x 15 foot building and put a pair or trio in each section:

Bantam Breeding Pens

I have bantams, and I think the above set up is kind of small if they were in it long term. I'd use something more like this:

This would be for winter. When the weather is warm, even Seramas should be able to access the outdoors in a protected run.

 

[linguini]

I have 9 Seramas and 6 Seramas chicks it’s in the dead winter rn and I have them in small cages the building is about 15 feet by 15 feet now apparently people say the cages are to small so if that’s the case someone please tell me how I’m gonna build massive cages in such a small building? Any suggestions?

Get rid off the cages! (or you can convert them to nesting boxes). I wish I have a 15x15 shelter for my chooks!
Can you use the entire storage room as a coop? or partition an area for them to use as a coop? Make some roosting bars for them, with a poop board underneath the roost. Follow the advice from the experts in the forum (I learned SO much from them, and still learn something new everyday), stick to the chicken math, you will have a nice habitat for your birds!

 

[linguini]

@Newseramabreeder

Hope you are not discouraged by all the advice of space you'll need for your Seramas.

Since you are conducting observation and research - here is some simple mathematical reasoning for the chicken math.
Typical rules cited by forum experts:

- 4 sqft per chicken for coop
- 10 sqft per chicken for run

First, chickens are not to be caged.
But even if one considers chickens as pet birds, and wants to keep them in a cage,

What will be a reasonable volume of space for these birds?

Assuming

1. a smallest size of bird cage, say, for a finch, or a parakeet, is perhaps one of of those cylinder shape cage, about 1 ft in diameter, 2 ft in height (~2713 cubic inch)

2. a finch/parakeet body volume is approximately 2 cubic inch (1x1x2) each

3. If you keep a pair of finches in a cage as described, it's 678 cubic inch per cubic inch.
or even if you keep two pairs of finches in such cage:

Cage Volume:Body Volume ratio is 350:1

4. Each chicken is about 1 cubic ft in body volume, which means you'll need a cage of 350 cubic ft in volume. That's about 7 ft in each dimension.

Since chickens main activities are foraging, not flying, vertical space can vary, which makes
coop floor space 4 sqft for night time and
and run floor space 10 sqft for day time
totally reasonable

This may not solve your immediate challenge of how to make a huge cage, but at least you can put in your research report that chicken math is not totally without reasoning

 

[SueT]

@Newseramabreeder, where do you live? Anywhere near me? (SW MIssouri) I would like to find some Seramas this year.....

 

[Newseramabreeder]

@Newseramabreeder, where do you live? Anywhere near me? (SW MIssouri) I would like to find some Seramas this year.....

I live in South Carolina but there is a lady in Louisiana who sells them there pricey but you get something of great quality and not junk her name is Dray-Bethany Gunter on Facebook

 

[SueT]

I live in South Carolina but there is a lady in Louisiana who sells them there pricey but you get something of great quality and not junk her name is Dray-Bethany Gunter on Facebook

Thanks, I’m gonna have to find them closer than that! I saw them one time at a local poultry swap, so someone around here has some.

 

[nchls school]

@Newseramabreeder, where do you live? Anywhere near me? (SW MIssouri) I would like to find some Seramas this year.....

Are you looking for show quality or pet quality?