Is this a big enough coop?!

[Posh Chickens]

I have a stable, that is their inside bit, which is 11ft x 12ft, and their run is 22ft x 19ft.
Is this big enough for 20 chickens? I have 15 at the moment, also they free range every week.

 

[f8thnjc]

Looks great! More than adequate.

 

[Hegatha]

Plenty of room you could easily have 25. Your inside is 132 sqft and 4sqft per inside for each chick and you have 418sqft outside and its reccomended 10sqft per outside.

 

[urbanfarmette]

well according to chicken math you need 4 ft square space inside for each chicken (these numbers actually matter less as you have more chickens, imo). 11x12=132 sq feet. that is enough room for 33 chickens with that math.

jessica

 

[patandchickens]

Sure. 11x12 is about 120 sq ft i.e. twenty chickens would have 6 sq ft apiece; your run provides over 40 sq ft apiece. Palatial!

Don't feel you *have* to stuff it with more chickens, either, although a bunch of BYCers will no doubt tell you that you should... it is GOOD to simply have happy comfortable chickens with good elbow room

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[Posh Chickens]

I'll definately stop at 20! I want a cockerel, I dunno though, I probably will have a trio in a ark, and sell the eggs. I'm thinking 3 RIR's, and 3 BCM's. I have 14 at the moment. I dunno?

 

[JACC0811]

If we didn't plan to move in the near future, I sure would do that with our barn. We have 3 10x10' stalls, and no other animals other than our beagle lol. I would like to raise both chickens and rabbits, and our barn would be great to do things this way.

 

[obaan1]

Plenty of room to keep everyone happy. Looks good.