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Welllaidacres
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Thanks!I think I saw it discussed before on here and someone said 250 sq ft did it for them, or maybe it was 275 sq ft... somewhere in that vicinity. I don't have the thread bookmarked though, sorry.
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Thanks!I think I saw it discussed before on here and someone said 250 sq ft did it for them, or maybe it was 275 sq ft... somewhere in that vicinity. I don't have the thread bookmarked though, sorry.
Thanks a bunch! Appreciate the data pointI fully recognize this is just one data point, and that scaling it up is probably not linear math, but it might still be helpful.
I currently have only 4 chickens. Their Chicken Palace provides just over 400 sq feet of predator-secure space. Most of that has a solid roof but a small amount is alternating 'pasture' that they destroy very fast.
In addition, this summer I fenced off about 650 sq feet of pasture. They were not out in it all day every day as it is not predator secure. I would guesstimate they got out in it most days for many hours because we had work going on outdoors and I relied on the presence of people to keep the predators away. But then there were rain days and days when they only got a few hours roaming.
Anyway, with that load they are not even keeping the grass trimmed let alone denuding the area.
One other observation, they scratch up newly sprouted grass etc. much, much, faster than older established plants with a real mat of roots. So you may want to leave one of your pastures without chickens for a couple of years to let it all establish.
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I realize I have one other data point from inside the secure area where they have two pastures of 50 sq ft. each. I alternate them seeding one and excluding the ladies while they play in the other.Thanks a bunch! Appreciate the data point
Appreciate the data point