Am I right?

[Hennyhandler]

I have a 5 by 10 kennel that I would like to keep some sikies in when i get them. I know that silkies are bantams making the size per square foot different. Some say two, some three, I believe. So five by ten is fifty and divide that by three makes roughly 16. So this means that 16 could go in there. To me when I look at the space it seems like that would be way too small for that many chickens. SO this is what I wanted to ask , thinking logically ( I know, an impossibility here) how many could fit in there with them being happy and healthy? What would you do, is what I am asking? Like three or four? Thanks.

 

[grandmaof5]

Most people recommend 4 sq. ft. in a coop, but are you talking about aRUN? The recommended are per bird for a run is 10 sq. ft., so 50 sq ft would accommodate 5 hens if they are full size. Bantams? Then you could have more.

 

[Hennyhandler]

I'm so sorry. Where in the world was my brain? I always seem to get jumbled with my thinking when I am going between the run and the coop. I guess I was going off coop dimensions instead of run. Anyway, SO it would be five hens for the run. I think the coop is three by three so overall I think three to four hens wouldn't be overcrowded, would it?

 

[Knittycat]

3x3 would make 9 sq feet. That would ideally accommodate two chickens, but you could 'get away' with three. I wouldn't put any more than that in.