Lexie27
Songster
We’re taking in an under 1 year old rooster that the neighbor doesn’t want. I don’t know his breed, super sweet and the hens pick on him.
We have a 10’x10x6’ welded dog kennel sitting on 8” of concrete that we’ll wrap in 1/2 hardware cloth, 19 gauge.
In for a penny, in for a pound. May as well get him some hens and a house.
The max we’d want is 8 including the rooster, especially being new to chicken keeping. But we also want some extra space for when the girls get old and you need new. The coop would be walk in on a down slope (hubs is in construction and knows to raise and account for drainage in both run and under coop. What is the very least space we could go with, (we will 100% go bigger, I’m a bird girl, and we’re not trying to make a profit, just healthy happy animals).
We were planning on a 10’x 12’ slanted roof from 8’ to 6’ but I’m a bit worried that might be too big for a coop with no electricity. Two windows on north and east side big vent on west. Enough ventilation?
Thoughts? Suggestions?
We have a 10’x10x6’ welded dog kennel sitting on 8” of concrete that we’ll wrap in 1/2 hardware cloth, 19 gauge.
In for a penny, in for a pound. May as well get him some hens and a house.
The max we’d want is 8 including the rooster, especially being new to chicken keeping. But we also want some extra space for when the girls get old and you need new. The coop would be walk in on a down slope (hubs is in construction and knows to raise and account for drainage in both run and under coop. What is the very least space we could go with, (we will 100% go bigger, I’m a bird girl, and we’re not trying to make a profit, just healthy happy animals).
We were planning on a 10’x 12’ slanted roof from 8’ to 6’ but I’m a bit worried that might be too big for a coop with no electricity. Two windows on north and east side big vent on west. Enough ventilation?
Thoughts? Suggestions?
