If you have this design please let me know how your chickens are doing with this cold weather and if you have closed up the front at all...thank you!
I am in CT..
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This is great news. Read the book over the holidays and will be building a Woods Open-Air coop in March. I'm near the north shore of Lake Ontario and we've had -20F temps with -40F wind chill. Only thing is I'm surrounded by flat farm land so in winter I'll build a wall of hay bales to cut the wind from the North and West.Went out this morning, temp was 4 degrees, heard on the radio with wind chill, it's supposed to be like -20. It feels pretty cold to me, can only imagine -40 like others have. But at 4 degrees, I opened up the pop door, and the chickens poured out of there like any other day. According to the coop's inside thermometer, it is 19 in the coop. The birds don't seem to have any issues at all, not that I expected them to have any, anyway.
One thing, When I changed out the water fount this morning, it seems like the top inside of the fount was frozen, with a bit of ice on one side of the drink tray. I may have to put a stronger bulb in the cookie tin heater.
As far as to how the Wood's coop is doing, IMO, it's the best coop you can have. And the open front is still wide open.
Anyone have pics?
I like the idea but don't understand how you have a wire wall but don't get wind? (Michigan here) our wind changes direction. My birds will not go outside and do not forage or act wild. I like the idea as it means fresher air just trying to grasp how it works. My coop is a board and batten shed 6x6 with sliding plexiboard on the windows. The walls breathe and are not air tight, i keep their house in deep shade. (Summer) was cooler in there than sitting under a tree sometimes! I want to add a wraparound porch and have the front for me and the side for them with a floor so i dare to give permanent access.