Help me decide on a chicken coop

[Weeg]

What about something like this?
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/329078885990760/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp:966d473c-83c6-4252-ab15-eadcb8e83d76

Still only 6x4, not any bigger than the other one. Plus it's dirty, and used. If you're going to buy one of the two I'd go with the one. Less chance of spreading a disease to your flock.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

The thing is this is a walk in coop....
The person said they had 7 chickens in it.

 

[Weeg]

The thing is this is a walk in coop....
The person said they had 7 chickens in it.

Thats a plus.
That person had too many chickens in it.
That person was also using a heater, I don't see adequate ventilation, and too many nesting boxes, so it shows they don't know much about chicken housing to start with. I think that could comfortably hold 4 chickens.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

What about something like this?
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/329078885990760/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp:966d473c-83c6-4252-ab15-eadcb8e83d76

Inadequate ventilation, only [edit] 24 sq ft (6 chickens), nesting boxes on the floor again. Roosting bar appears to be at the same height as the window, so the window can't provide draft free ventilation. Run is chicken wire - keeps chickens in, keeps nothing out (unless you have a problem with the neighbor's chickens...)

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I have 24' X 8' and kept 10 chickens. now I will have 25 chickens when the 15 chicks grow into adults and I am concerned about having enough room, if I have to keep them locked up for any length of time. Mine free range my backyard from sun up to sun down, unless weather prohibits. My coop is walk in.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I have 24' X 8' and kept 10 chickens. now I will have 25 chickens when the 15 chicks grow into adults and I am concerned about having enough room, if I have to keep them locked up for any length of time. Mine free range my backyard from sun up to sun down, unless weather prohibits.

If your chicken house is 24 x 8 , you have space for 25 chickens. If your run is 24 x 8, you may very well have behavioral issues, that's tending towards a little cramped. Or not. Space is NOT a guarantee. But it is certainly a social lubricant. Entertainment, line of site blockers, multiple horizontal surfaces at different heights, other "enrichments" will help as boredom busters in that space - as long as what you are adding is actually adding to the available space. One of my cable reels, for instance, takes up almost as much space as it adds, its not really a net positive - but a picnic table is multiple surfaces, potential line of sight blockers, but the space under the table isn't taken up by the table itself - so it is a net positive. Make sense???

 

[EliteTempleton]

With the way prices change lately I can't be sure but I think you can do this for cheaper and be better off:

 

[Ursuline Chick]

If your chicken house is 24 x 8 , you have space for 25 chickens. If your run is 24 x 8, you may very well have behavioral issues, that's tending towards a little cramped. Or not. Space is NOT a guarantee. But it is certainly a social lubricant. Entertainment, line of site blockers, multiple horizontal surfaces at different heights, other "enrichments" will help as boredom busters in that space - as long as what you are adding is actually adding to the available space. One of my cable reels, for instance, takes up almost as much space as it adds, its not really a net positive - but a picnic table is multiple surfaces, potential line of sight blockers, but the space under the table isn't taken up by the table itself - so it is a net positive. Make sense???

They have the entire backyard to free range during the daytime. Rough estimate 62.5 feet. X about 50 feet

 

[U_Stormcrow]

They have the entire backyard to free range during the daytime. Rough estimate 62.5 feet. X about 50 feet

That's a little bigger than my run (my flock is in my sig). Mine free range in a somewhat larger area.

 

[My_3_Hens]

Seems like a lot of nesting boxes -- which takes up valuable space -- in a smaller coop. My coop as 3 nesting boxes and my ladies ALWAYS use the same one. But it looks well built and predator proof.