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Hi!
We are wondering if we dare order more chicks this year..right now we have 26, soon to be 24 in a coop that is 8 x 16 or 128 sq ft and then we have a run outside of that that is roughly 480 sq ft when that is finished...
We'd like to order more chicks but we aren't sure we have the room inside the coop....we'll have 1 roo and 23 hens...they'll be a year old on 4/7...
It sure seems like there is room in the coop for more but we dont' want trouble by overcrowding...
Thoughts on this? We dont' really have room to expand the coop itself...I am mainly thinking forward to next winter as well as this winter really would not have worked for them to be outside much at all....our run is on the south side of our shop so they may spend most of the winter "cooped up".
Thank you!
Jen in MN
We are wondering if we dare order more chicks this year..right now we have 26, soon to be 24 in a coop that is 8 x 16 or 128 sq ft and then we have a run outside of that that is roughly 480 sq ft when that is finished...
We'd like to order more chicks but we aren't sure we have the room inside the coop....we'll have 1 roo and 23 hens...they'll be a year old on 4/7...
It sure seems like there is room in the coop for more but we dont' want trouble by overcrowding...
Thoughts on this? We dont' really have room to expand the coop itself...I am mainly thinking forward to next winter as well as this winter really would not have worked for them to be outside much at all....our run is on the south side of our shop so they may spend most of the winter "cooped up".
Thank you!
Jen in MN
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