Is 6x10 big enough?

[chickenzoo]

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My one hen started laying so I will try to hatch them and hope to get some gals for my other boys when they get older.....

I did find someone to swap eggs with when their's start to lay and a possible other lead if the other person hatches some.. fingers crossed

 

[kikescove.com]

Youcan keep a chicken in a 1x1 steel cage to lay eggs its whole life and it will lay just fine. You can keep a dog in a 2x3 steel cage where it stands in its own excrement all day, and it would still wag its tail and smile at you. It will be your choice how small a pen you want for your birds. Just remember its your "selfish" choice. I'm glad you are asking for opinions and I am sure you will get good ones and not so good ones. My smallest pen is 12x12x16(high) for Red goldens and that happens to be the pheasant that can handle the smallest pen and I think it's too small.

 

[3forfree]

I've had these birds in a 7x10x6 for almost 1 year, and they seem to be content. There's some habitat for them to hide in, and stay out of the weather, and they have began laying last week.

 

[chickenzoo]

In the theory of selfishness
We also keep parrots in cages, horses in pastures and a lot of other animals in smaller accommodations then really what they should be, but you can still do it without it being harmful to them and considered inhumane. If i was taking a bird from the wild and had not grown up in captivity, and put it in a small pen, then that would be selfish. Anyone that has animals confined is keeping them in a selfish way... in that theory no pen would be humane. IMO, But to keep any animal there is a loss to the animal in some way, we just try to give them the best care and space we can to substitute. You can have a bird in a 4x8 ft pen or in a 20x20 pen, but if the person with the 4x8 pen spends more time with there birds, buys them more treats and meal worms and all the things they like, spends time with them and truly enjoys them and the person with the 20x20 pen does none of those things............ it is just a pretty bird in a pen, which is less humane.

 

[BlooRooster]

Now that has to be the best answer I have heard yet chickenzoo.

 

[wilds of pa]

chickenzoo..you hit the nail right on the head.. great answer..

 

[Charliet]

great answer chickenzoo i could not have answer that well great way to putit

 

[kbgh]

My Red Goldens are in a 6x10x6 (cock and 5 hens) with no problems and they currently share it with a pair of Appenzeller Spitzenhauben chickens (room issue till I get new pens done) and it appears a couple of the hens like the Spitzenhaubens nest cause I keep fing pheasant eggs in it.

Will add my male Ringneck killed his hen in a 10x10x6 though.

So Isuppose it depends on the breed and the individual birds.

 

[cpbirds407]

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I open a motion to nominate Chickenzoo for the presidency of the United States Of America

AWESOME Chickenzoo!!! That was just brilliant!

Charlie

 

[95yj]

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then maybe you should provide the birds you currently have with the best possible conditions rather than expanding your flock but having marginal living conditions? Sure you can keep birds in tiny pens, but should you, generally not.