Roost Pole height?

[winteree]

I have been asking different people what the height of the chickens roost pole should be and i have gotten a different answer from every person. I was thinking about having it at 12 inches off the ground of the chicken house that way they have plenty of head space the chicken house is 32 inches tall and i'm going to be raising large breed birds. But what do y'all think to high to low?

 

[Firekin1]

I'd go with no higher than 12" in a 32" house, they should be able to just pretty much jump on it without banging their heads there ....mine range from 12" to 48" high, but I have an 8 foot ceiling so there's plenty of room for flying up......

 

[winteree]

Sounds about good

 

[shmeggs]

one of my coops my roosts are 2 and half feet high. my bigger coop I have 3 levels of roosts the lowest 15 inches and highest is 3 feet, it works great.

 

[winteree]

Yeah i wish i could afford to make my chicken house bigger the run is a good size but the chicken house itself is 4ft by 3ft by 31inches high

 

[Horseshoezach]

Can they be higher. Think mine are about 5 feet high but there's a ramp for them and the roof is like 9 feet high ??

 

[briancamacho]

What two breeds of chickens do you breed to get a blue laced wyandotte

 

[winteree]

What two breeds of chickens do you breed to get a blue laced wyandotte

well first you need a chicken that is "laced" Like a speackled sussex or a laced wyanddotte to begin with and then cross them with a "blue bird" like a Blue Orpington or a blue copper maran and just breed the chicks togather untill you get what you want but that is a very speific breed and it is recessive genes so only 1 out of ten birds look like a blue laced wyanddotte "should" and i have to say it would be a lot easyer to just buy the chicks online breeding birds takes time and space and 4 breeding pairs of birds can easyly become over 100 in the course of a few months.

 

[Firekin1]

This may help a little
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/blue-laced-red-wyandottes-chicken-breed-information

 

[Firekin1]

I have chickens that roost in trees which in all honesty looks rediculous, but if they have the space they can go pretty high until they get too fat for their wings to support them...lol