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How well vented is the attic above the garage? If it is very well ventilated you might be able to vent the coop in the summer to the attic. You would be venting moist air so you wouldn't want to do this in cold weather as it would condense on the underside or the roof and possibly rot the roof...

10 from 11 young girls

I've been in many houses that the cat box smelled much worse than my coop. My coop's main winter vents are into the porch between the coop, the sewing barn and my wood shop. The only time I've had an odor problem is if I didn't clean the poop boards for a week. Everything is a trade off.

It was still Upjohn when I moved. I grow up in the HVAC business. Now I do computerized environmental control of greenhouses. I'm thinking a 4 by 8 coop 3 to 4 foot tall will house 4 hens and have enough ventilation for the winter with a 2 by 3 opening at the end of one of the 8' sides. The...

Woods has several plans and ideas for open sided coops. I was just reading his book today and the most notable thing for today was even if the wind is blowing directly into the open side, so long as the other 3 sides are solid, 4 feet in from the opening, you won't feel the wind blowing. In...

The two biggest problems with that house is; 1) the size for the number of hens they have. It appears to be about 4' by 4' with the nesting boxes taking up a fourth of that space. 2) it has no ventilation.

BTW, it would be the kids who think we are afflicted.

9 from 11 who are just 16 weeks old. :D

So how did the starplate system go? Did you get the three units built?

With 11 girls that will be just 16 weeks old tomorrow, we are proud to announce we got our very first egg this morning!

Tomorrow will be 16 weeks and I found this in the coop today! Saw one squatting yesterday and thought she was a few weeks early. :D

We lost 2 to other reasons. The total is eleven and they should be sharing a 4x8 floor space. The injured one's tail is looking much better now. Next week I should be able to remove the temp wall that splits the coop. The differance in age is because I first posted in the first aid forum and...

Right now there are ten in an area about 4 by 6. They're about 16 weeks old. The injured girl is in a 2 by 4 space adjoining the others. The main flock now has a second floor where their roosts are as well as a 12 by 24 run they didn't have when the pecking happened. So I have increased the...

We had her out in the run for a short time this afternoon and several of her sisters wanted to peck at her scabs. She was put back in her own pen. Weather permitting, tomorrow I'll let her out for a while before the others are allowed out.

A different diet for her means keeping her in her own pen for a little while longer. She wants to join her sisters so bad. She tells us about it ever time we walk in to the coop.