How many more hens can fit in this coop?

[kattabelly]

Technically yes but the thing is birds who share a space together tend to want to roost together so you may run into overcrowding issues anyways. I'd find a used shed and convert it to a coop, cheaper and better than buying a new coop

It can also go the other way, especially with very small coops that are really only used for roosting.

I have a group of older pullets at the moment that happily mix together or go off in different combinations during the day time but are very particular about who they'll roost with. They sleep in three or sometimes four different places and one of the smallest and youngest likes to roost with the older, much larger girls who are already laying. Often she tucks herself in between two that I'd describe as the most dominant and the least friendly. Sometimes the sleeping arrangements change either for a night or two, or as an ongoing thing. Most of the spaces they use could easily fit more birds if they all wanted to be together.

Even with coops that are being used as living space during the day in bad weather, I'd not necessarily see it as an issue unless the weather is so bad they can't even make a quick dash from one coop to another.

 

[charlie1051]

For the record, there's nothing wrong with living in the city. My gam gam lived in the city.

However I guess farmers don't know jack and should ask online chicken support groups questions more often...

 

[StinkyAcres]

For the record, there's nothing wrong with living in the city. My gam gam lived in the city.

However I guess farmers don't know jack and should ask online chicken support groups questions more often...

I guess you're on the wrong forum. Most of us here on BYC are hobby farmers who consider our birds pets. And, no, I've never lived in the city.

I'm not saying this is you, and this is my opinion, but most farmers I know who farm for a living seem to me to place money above the welfare of the animals. This is understandable because crowding their barns, pastures, and coops is the only way they can make a profit and they can't get attached to their animals because they will eventually be butchered anyway. I tend to think they are not as tuned in to their animals and they just don't know or care how much happier and long-lived their animals could be if they gave them a bigger and cleaner place to live.