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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

How Much Room Do Chickens Need?

Before we ever entertained the idea of keeping chickens in our garden we were long under the impression that you need lots of land to keep chickens- ideally at least an acre of grass. Fortunately, this isn’t the case (unless you are planning on keeping thousands of them!) and you’d be surprised by the actual amount of room chickens need. 

The amount of room chickens need really depends on a few key points. Firstly, are you intending to allow your chickens to free roam? Secondly, how many hours of the day do you intend to keep your chickens in their coop? Finally, how many chickens do you intend on keeping?

5 comments:

  1. Chickens need a lot more room than this guy thinks. Apparently they need an entire White House, Capitol building and assorted house and senate office buildings.

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  2. I fenced around my coop after losing too many to predators. The fenced area presently is about 1500 square feet. I'm planning to increase that this summer so they have enough space that grass can grow. May need to make it a side pen and not allow continuous use.

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  3. Well, the frying pan determines how much room chickens will fit.

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