Chicken Math: x+y = how many birds?!?

[nychick83]

Your coop should be okay for that number of birds. You may want to consider making the run larger, and making it so your birds can come out comfortably in winter.

They will pick that area clean in no time than they will become bored. A deep litter system can help keep something in the run to pick at, but you will need to bring things to your birds daily to keep them busy and active to burn off excess energy. People underestimate how busy a chicken is during the day.

Ditto!

 

[aart]

This is a spin-off of one of my other posts where we went in depth into how important "Chicken Math" is to the health and well being of your flock. As many of you know, I am putting a website together (which is up and running but still a work in progress) and I said I would post some helpful resources on this topic...so here it is:

http://buildacoop.com/2017/11/27/chicken-coop-math/

There are other blog posts as well covering ventilation and various topics if you are interested...Enjoy!

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Actually 'chicken math' is not calculating space needed for birds, it's how the number of chickens a person keeps seems to increase before common sense kicks in.
Chicken math is not just 'addition'...but also should include Division, Multiplication and especially Subtraction!!!

The 4/10 rule is a minimum but, yes, a place to start but then you have to think about all the other variables.
This is the best on space needed:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/how-much-room-do-chickens-need

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

Actually 'chicken math' is not calculating space needed for birds, it's how the number of chickens a person keeps seems to increase before common sense kicks in.
Chicken math is not just 'addition'...but also should include Division, Multiplication and especially Subtraction!!!

The 4/10 rule is a minimum but, yes, a place to start but then you have to think about all the other variables.
This is the best on space needed:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/how-much-room-do-chickens-need

Great article!