What is chest height on a full grown chicken?

[tpatricco]

Rookie question here... What approximately is chest height for full grown regular sized chicken breeds?

I have a mixed flock...no bantams. Not full grown yet. Want to mount gravity fed waterer with drinking cups. Don't want to end up too low. My girls are about 13 weeks now. Willing to give them a platform for the short term.

Thanks!

 

[Sagey_7878]

It entirely depends on the breed!

 

[Steven Bussell]

I made this for my mix flock. My chick's are 5 weeks. I mounted it using zip ties so I can adjust it as they grow

 

[Mosey2003]

Depends on the chicken, lol.

I typically use cinder blocks for water for my crew, that works out really well. Just mount it where you want with the step and they can continue to hop up.

 

[tpatricco]

Thanks everyone. I realize it does to some degree depend on the breed. Of course I still need to hang the thing and hope to "do it once, do it right" so as to not make more holes than necessary.

The waterer I'm building is a one sided (L-shaped) version of this one:

Chicken Waterer

• tpatricco
• Jul 9, 2019

We are building a modified version of this for the run

So trying to establish mounting height for permanent placement. I'd just measure a chicken if I had any full grown ones...