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I appears less, which you can get away with using and offset arrangement like this. The downside is the angled roost take up valuable space for you, the chicken keeper, in what may already be a cramped coop interior. It also not recommended that the birds be allowed to muck around below the roosts.
(This is typically the most pooped-up area in most coops, if dropping boards or pits are not employed. Either way, the goal is to keep the birds out of the poo. So generally, a horizontal roost with boards beneath is preferred.)
I recommended the 18" for stacked roosts, one atop the other. That was not fully clear, I suppose. It seems that the birds would crap on each other's head that way, but somehow they don't if they have enough elbow room on the roosts. This is how it was done with house-reared Leghorn layers, before the advent of battery cages.
I appears less, which you can get away with using and offset arrangement like this. The downside is the angled roost take up valuable space for you, the chicken keeper, in what may already be a cramped coop interior. It also not recommended that the birds be allowed to muck around below the roosts.
(This is typically the most pooped-up area in most coops, if dropping boards or pits are not employed. Either way, the goal is to keep the birds out of the poo. So generally, a horizontal roost with boards beneath is preferred.)
I recommended the 18" for stacked roosts, one atop the other. That was not fully clear, I suppose. It seems that the birds would crap on each other's head that way, but somehow they don't if they have enough elbow room on the roosts. This is how it was done with house-reared Leghorn layers, before the advent of battery cages.
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