Looking to raise chickens and build first coop

[fldiver97]

@robcam817 .... top to bottom.... my current coop in the first few pictures. The second to last pic is of the dog kennel run many years ago. The last picture is my first run that was initially cobbled together to secure the crappy prefab coop I bought for my first 5 chickens. I ended up converting an old shed to a coop, attached that monstrosity of a run to it, cut a pop door in between coop and run and used that for our first winter. Sorry, don’t have good pics but hopefully it’ll give you a general idea.

 

[ronott1]

Welcome to backyard chickens!

 

[happy duck]

Welcome! We always love having more people! It is so exciting about getting chickens! Hope your coop building process is going good!

 

[SurferchickinSB]

I'll deff give them a look, thank you.

Yeah, when I saw those in Home Depot and saw that they come and install it, I wished I would have seen that before I built mine. I thought I was going to have to have back surgery before I was done! The main thing I like doing is decorating, not especially building, but I had to build it before I could decorate it. LOL! Oh well...

 

[robcam817]

@robcam817 .... top to bottom.... my current coop in the first few pictures. The second to last pic is of the dog kennel run many years ago. The last picture is my first run that was initially cobbled together to secure the crappy prefab coop I bought for my first 5 chickens. I ended up converting an old shed to a coop, attached that monstrosity of a run to it, cut a pop door in between coop and run and used that for our first winter. Sorry, don’t have good pics but hopefully it’ll give you a general idea.

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Much appreciated, thanks!

 

[robcam817]

View attachment 1739754 Welcome to backyard chickens!

Thanks!

 

[robcam817]

Came across these plans but his dimensions seem way to small to support 16 birds. I'm planning on 12-24 so thinking I'd need to double or triple the hen house size. Thoughts/Concerns? Much thx in advance.

-rob

 

[Fishkeeper]

Yeah, 33 square feet is too small for 16 birds. Maybe, maybe if they were super tiny, like seramas. Don't think that 99sqft run would work for 16 either. The house would take 8 birds, the run would maybe work for 10 if they were small. So, yes, you'd want to about triple that for 24 birds.
For 12 birds, you'd want 48 square feet of coop, 120 of run, at minimum. A bit more would be better.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Welcome to BYC!

Enjoy yourself here at the best chicken website ever!!

 

[robcam817]

Yeah, 33 square feet is too small for 16 birds. Maybe, maybe if they were super tiny, like seramas. Don't think that 99sqft run would work for 16 either. The house would take 8 birds, the run would maybe work for 10 if they were small. So, yes, you'd want to about triple that for 24 birds.
For 12 birds, you'd want 48 square feet of coop, 120 of run, at minimum. A bit more would be better.

That's what I thought but wanted to be sure. Thank you.