New Set up advice

[Disecky]

Maybe take a look at this link - Space requirements

great read - thanks

im gonna need a biggar coop

 

[Isaac 0]

Hello, and Welcome to BackYard Chickens! So glad you decided to join! Make yourself at home here.

 

[aart]

Is my set up big enough for 8 birds? Manufactor says coop will hold 12-15 birds but that seems off to me.
4 x 6 coop from Shedman.

Nope. Yep, way off....Typical mfg BS...they use factory farm specs.
I wouldn't put more than 4 birds in a 4x6 in your climate.
You could build a heck of a coop for $1800!!

I am employed at Storey Publishing in the design department and have worked on many of our chicken books but now I am jumping in with both feet.

Designing the book layouts or designing actual coops/animal housing?

im gonna need a biggar coop

Indeed!

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[Disecky]

Nope. Yep, way off....Typical mfg BS...they use factory farm specs.
I wouldn't put more than 4 birds in a 4x6 in your climate.
You could build a heck of a coop for $1800!!

Yes we can, but we are building a new home and will be moving in 1 year, so I wanted something mobile. My gut feeling is we will have more than one coop .

Designing the book layouts or designing actual coops/animal housing?

Designing book layout.

Indeed!

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[Disecky]

Designing the book layouts or designing actual coops/animal housing?

Trying to figure out the reply quote thing.

I work on book layouts, designs, prop builder, stylist,

 

[aart]

I work on book layouts, designs, prop builder, stylist,

Now you're going to learn some of the reality behind the romance on the subject of chickens.

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

It all depends on one's budget, you can have your chickens live in a lavish mansion or like mine, roofing and walls on it's last legs looking like one of those abandoned destroyed houses in Detroit that you can purchase for fiddy dollars.

 

[Disecky]

Your set up is big enough for 8 but does not allow for any further additions, since you mentioned possibly wanting more.

If your dream flock is 10, build for 15, etc.

I ended up getting a bigger coop, and we are setting up fencing for free rangin.

 

[Flockincrazy]

I bet, I have 4 house rabbits

I started with 1 house bunny now i have 3 inside outside bunnies