jaybyrdsfarm
Songster
So chicken math struck. I currently have 1 confirmed rooster and 11 other chickens, one may be a rooster, waiting on that. I am currently enlarging the run from 10 x 10 to 10 x 20. They get out in the backyard every night when I'm home from work.
My concern is that if I have 2 roosters, they would only have 5 hens a piece which may be too few hens.
Would I have enough room for more hens to even out the numbers?
The final run will be 10 x 20, half is covered in a solid roof, the other half will be covered in hardware cloth but no solid roof.
The coop is 6 feet wide by 7 feet long and has a slanted roof. Highest part of the roof is 7 or 8 feet, shortest is 4 and a half.
They have 3 roost bars in the coop and 5 nesting boxes that are currently blocked off because no one is laying yet
Youngest chick is 6 weeks, oldest is 15 weeks.
Inside of coop. They have water inside because it is so damned hot right now.
The extension of the coop is below which should be done whenever my hardware cloth gets here. The wall frames are built just not up yet.
Thanks in advance!
Jaybyrd
My concern is that if I have 2 roosters, they would only have 5 hens a piece which may be too few hens.
Would I have enough room for more hens to even out the numbers?
The final run will be 10 x 20, half is covered in a solid roof, the other half will be covered in hardware cloth but no solid roof.
The coop is 6 feet wide by 7 feet long and has a slanted roof. Highest part of the roof is 7 or 8 feet, shortest is 4 and a half.
They have 3 roost bars in the coop and 5 nesting boxes that are currently blocked off because no one is laying yet
Youngest chick is 6 weeks, oldest is 15 weeks.
Inside of coop. They have water inside because it is so damned hot right now.
The extension of the coop is below which should be done whenever my hardware cloth gets here. The wall frames are built just not up yet.
Thanks in advance!
Jaybyrd