Building a 4x4 coop!

[tlcmurphy]

Space requirements for coop (overnight sleeping housing): 4 square feet per chicken

Space requirements for run (outside daytime living space): 10 square feet per chicken

These are just general recommendations and MORE space is *always* better. Crowded chickens can get nasty with each other.

But you have 3 hens and that is small but should be good alright.

Where are you located in the world?

Typically ventilation is above the roosting bars, so noxious ammonia fumes can travel UP and OUT and wind doesn't blow them from the side -- if you live in a cold or cold-ish environment.

If you live in a hot-as-heck or mild environment, they don't even need anything other than rain cover, as many open-air coops exhibit.

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[thistlewick]

This thread is 10 years old, OP is no longer on BYC

LOL I didn't even LOOK lol

Someone else necro'd it

 

[Ehaywood85]

Space requirements for coop (overnight sleeping housing): 4 square feet per chicken

Space requirements for run (outside daytime living space): 10 square feet per chicken

These are just general recommendations and MORE space is *always* better. Crowded chickens can get nasty with each other.

But you have 3 hens and that is small but should be good alright.

Where are you located in the world?

Typically ventilation is above the roosting bars, so noxious ammonia fumes can travel UP and OUT and wind doesn't blow them from the side -- if you live in a cold or cold-ish environment.

If you live in a hot-as-heck or mild environment, they don't even need anything other than rain cover, as many open-air coops exhibit.

I have a 10 x 20 run, and my pulleys are about a month old. I have 10. I will be building a larger 8x8x8 chicken coop, but that I can do over the next couple of months. I just need to build something smaller in the meantime.

 

[Ehaywood85]

The pullets are fully feathered now and need out of the brooder. I am planning on building a 6x4x4

 

[tlcmurphy]

Do you have the cut measurements for this coop?

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