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[gilcamp4]

HERE IS OUR CAMPER-COOP AND THE INSIDE OF IT


and our coop we have most o them in camper-coop then we have the ones that start to loss the feathers in the coop

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Ya if we get a new camper and no one is doing anything with it I am going to maybe use it it's 24 foot I think but it's older and we got our use out of it for 600 dollars for how old it is and as good of condition it was in it must have been taken good care of we took good care of it to but it's getting older and it's still in great shape expect s
A spot in the wall is soft

 

[Sylvester017]

I wouldn't dive into stocking the "medicine cabinet" too quickly. The chickens will most likely take care of an ants and spiders (food!) and not all chicken coops have mites and lice. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Hi @bruceha2000

My chickens do not take care of the ants/spiders as other people have said their chickens do. My birds want the BIGGER insects like worms, moths, June bugs, grasshoppers - they sneer at earwigs, ants, or bitty tiny spiders. Not only that but if an egg is broken in a nestbox and there's ants crawling on it, a squirt of the organic Poultry Protector immobilizes the ants so they're not crawling up my arm while I clean the straw with the broken egg mess. The Poultry Protector is great for mite/lice prevention. Wild birds bring in their lice and probably worms in their droppings too. Why wait until there are parasites crawling on a chicken when minimal squirts of the organic enzyme keeps the parasites away. Guess it's to each his own with their flock but I don't wait for any infestation to show up, and protect the coop with a monthly to bi-monthly crevice spraying (per directions) depending on the climate conditions. Hotter weather is great for parasites. We check our broody Silkies too because lice/mites like the warmth of broody hens. I've never had a lice/mite problem but I attribute it to prevention. The only time I've seen feather lice is when two juvenile chicks were shipped to me and the safe organic Poultry Protector worked instantly to clean the chicks up. I can't say enough about this great stuff.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Ya my chickens don't even eat worms they used to love them now u try and give them to them and hey just look at u like what is that what do I do with it they don't eat spiders they don't eat ants they eat mice and ground moles but none of that stuff my baby 2 and a half month old chick when they went outside my cat had a mouse in its mouth and she went and ripped it out of his mouth and ate it

 

[Sylvester017]

But Sylvester, you are ignoring the fact that some coop manufacturers stick WAY more nest boxes in the coops than the coop can properly hold in chickens. Coopmaster's coop is a recent example. 6x8 bird space = 12 chickens but there are 16 nest boxes. Given that 4 birds will easily use one nest box, the coop could accommodate 48 hens ... as long as 3/4 of them live somewhere else

Yep, once in a while a manufacturer will do that -- LOL!
I would go with - Measure the floor area. Subtract any square footage that is under something less than 18" high. That includes roosts, nest boxes, feeders and waterers. Divide the remaining area by 4. That is the number of chickens the coop can house AND there must be at least that much lineal footage of roosts.
Yep, floor space is the best determinator for number of chickens and all depends on whether they are shut-in chickens or free-range.
IF and ONLY IF your chickens are NEVER locked in the coop except when they are asleep, you can get more birds in if you have the roost space.
I once saw a youtube video of a guy that must've had 30+ chickens roosting inside his coop that I wouldn't put more than 5 inside - it's a good thing youtube isn't Smell-O-Vision because the poop on the coop floor must've been at least 3 inches thick - ugh!

Perfect!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

They didn't eat corn before either but now they will do anything for it and I tryed giving it to them many times but then came the end of summer and they are all of it in about two weeks

 

[Sylvester017]

Ya my chickens don't even eat worms they used to love them now u try and give them to them and hey just look at u like what is that what do I do with it they don't eat spiders they don't eat ants they eat mice and ground moles but none of that stuff my baby 2 and a half month old chick when they went outside my cat had a mouse in its mouth and she went and ripped it out of his mouth and ate it

My chickens only want whatever the other chickens have in their mouths -- worms, leaves, sticks, paper, whatever!

 

[Sylvester017]

They didn't eat corn before either but now they will do anything for it and I tryed giving it to them many times but then came the end of summer and they are all of it in about two weeks

It was 5 years before any of my chickens ate banana. All of a sudden one day they went nuts for it -- go figure?

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Well it's just odd that they won't eat something they used to love they would jump up in the air for them but now they look at it like we'res the food u brought me but the are so spoiled it's probably why they won't eat them

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

My rooster shows the worms to them but they come up to him and look like what is it that u are showing me all I see is that slimy worm covered in its own poo they even used to come up to me waiting for me to flip over the rocks and bricks I have in there run to make it feel as if they are in a natural habitat like they used to roam free in the wild