Solitary chicken - need advice

[AndyRoo]

Hello all,

 

I know the site says you can keep something like 10 chickens in an Eglu Cube, but can you really fit that many in there?

 

It looks a little small to me to keep that many hens, so I was thinking 6 would make a more realistic number to keep them happy?

 

Any thoughts?

 

Cheers,

Andy

[Cat tails]

I think it's not so much the coop, but the run that dictates the amount of chickens.

[clucker1]

I've had 12 girls in mine, middle of the road sized girlies, mainly medium sized hybrids. There was still space for another 2, but that would have been cosy! They have a run and a good sized garden to free range in, but in their opinion "their area" isn't big enough! They evicted a cat this afternoon from the garden with their girl power!

[AndyRoo]

Okay, well, the run size won't be an issue as I can (within reason) pretty much make it whatever size I want. To be honest, I only want a maximum of 6 ends absolute tops.

 

Sounds like everything should be okay with that number then.

[clucker1]

I started with 4, very quickly got more hens disease and now have 11. I think I could deal with any number in the Summer, but find maximum of 8 is best for winter (lots of poo!)

[kopperdrake]

Six average hens would be a doddle. We have a couple of cubes between 12 hens and it took a while to convince them they should really try and use *both* coops...

[chooksRCute]

My advice; go for the biggest run you can afford/fit in......you're in for a treat & will be adding girls within the year!

You can add an additional coop easily but not always the extra run