Raised Broiler Chicken Coops: Advantages and Disadvantages
A raised broiler chicken coop holds more birds and saves land. See why two levels work best and how to size a stilt coop for your flock and space.
The broiler chicken coop is one of the factors that decide whether a flock succeeds. No matter how good your chicks and feed are, a poor-quality coop can keep your chicken farm from performing the way you hope. Before you focus on anything else, get the coop right first. The coop you build should be ideal so the chickens can grow and develop well inside it. Each type of chicken has its own ideal coop, and a coop built for kampung chickens (Indonesian free-range native chickens) won't necessarily suit broilers. One type of housing worth considering for broiler chickens is the raised coop, built on stilts. Here are some appealing advantages of a raised broiler chicken coop:
Holds More Chickens
One advantage of a raised chicken coop is that it can hold more birds. Raised coops usually have two levels, so there is not just a ground floor but a second floor as well. Even so, a raised coop should never have more than three levels. Three is the maximum, but two levels is the ideal. Keeping the number of levels low makes the birds easy to monitor, so any chicken that falls sick can be treated right away.
Saves Land
If you want to start a chicken farming business but don't have much land, this is the ideal coop. A raised broiler chicken coop is built vertically rather than horizontally, so it saves land. That means you can still set up a chicken farm even on a small plot. The size can be adjusted to the land you have available and the number of birds you plan to raise. Before you start raising chickens, you can estimate how many birds a coop of a given size can hold.
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