((EMERGENCY)) More Chicks On The Way, No More Room!

[yelim]

Why do you order peeps without having the facilities or ready space to care for them. I don't understand this. Sounds like freezer camp for some.

 

[wsdareme]

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Hey, you could connect them with pieces of culvert pipe and turn them into a chicken habitrail!!!

 

[MareeZoCool]

I like your idea of using those hunting blinds! I would think putting 3 of them in a row will give your 10 hens plenty of space. PLEASE be sure to secure those open spaces with welded hardware cloth.

 

[foxnthehenhouse]

Im picturing those blinds as corner posts arranged in a square with a community run in the middle. KInda like a chicken compound with gaurd towers on the corners.

 

[bantyhen'sfriend]

I'm going to be an enabler for your addiction.

If the blinds are 5'X5' then you have 25 square feet of floor space. This would house 5 large hens comfortably, or 6-7 small hens, if you have a large run (10'X5'). 10 bantams would do OK in it with the same run.

Your 10'X10' blind has 100 square feet of floor space. This would house 20 hens using about 5 square feet per bird (with 10 square feet of run per bird), or 25 smaller hens or bantams (using about 4 square feet per bird) if you have a run for them.

Put all 4 together as several people have mentioned, and you have 175 square feet of floor space, enough space to house at least 35 large hens, if you have a run with at least 450 square feet for them. I'd make my run about 25' (as wide as the blinds put together) by 20' to give 500' squared of run space. More then enough!

 

[Redley]

Those blinds look like a great idea, especially if you can move them all together so they can buddy up with whom ever they would like to at night. "ok everybody, grab your bedtime buddy, your roosting roomate"

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As a new chicken person, I can understand putting the cart before the horse (or the egg before the chicken

, but it seems that you have options to house them before they grow up.

 

[oldchickenlady]

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Why are you being such a negative Nellie? They have about 5 weeks to put something together!

 

[Cass]

Let's see, you have 10 hens and 3 nesting boxes to house? Oh, and a million fuzzy butts on the way?

I love the idea of making the blinds into houseing. Cover the openings, put them in a square, making the run INSIDE the square. 5 weeks from now, in East TX the cold won't be a problem

So you can just predator proof your chicken compound and let the hens sort out the sleeping arrangement. Might be able to even fashion a run inside a run for the new fuzzy butts and have them inside one of the blinds too. Like someone pointed out, you really have a lot of room, just need to get it moved into position and add the finishing touches. (like a sign saying "One crazy chicken herder lives here"

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[perchie.girl]

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How about laying it on its side and making a coop for four hens. Put a bottom on it and use the open area at the top for chicken access. The door of the blind could be on the top so you can reach in. Thinking outside the box here.... litterally.

 

[yelim]

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Why are you being such a negative Nellie? They have about 5 weeks to put something together!

What is negative about being prepared?