Ideas are good to discuss. I was trying to point out it's predator proof.Beg your pardon. This is a discussion and I was only putting forth an idea.
Reading what I wrote it wasn't appropriate.
Sorry that I said it wrong.
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Ideas are good to discuss. I was trying to point out it's predator proof.Beg your pardon. This is a discussion and I was only putting forth an idea.
That’s actually what I was thinking when I was reading another’s suggestion for shade cloth — doing a shade sail above the hoop house would probably help keep the temp down. (And raising your cover a bit to let some breeze through at the bottom.)I was thinking about leaving the tarp on and cementing 4 posts on the outside of the coop and getting a shade sail that blocks 95% uv rays and hanging it above the coop, so it would look like having a canopy over the coop. Maybe that will help?
You would be amazed at the difference even a few young trees can make.That’s actually what I was thinking when I was reading another’s suggestion for shade cloth — doing a shade sail above the hoop house would probably help keep the temp down. (And raising your cover a bit to let some breeze through at the bottom.)
Im also a big fan of growing small trees/bushes in large pots to help create instant yet somewhat movable shade.
We are going to do something like that. We bought a sunshade. We are cementing 4x4s and we are going to secure the shade to it probably a foot above the coop. It will extent out past the coop a little bit. Hopefully this will help a lot. We should get it done by this weekend hopefully if we have days without rain. I will post pics once we get it done.The easiest and cheapest way In can think of resolving this is making a second and large tarp enclosure to surround that one. Leave at least a foot of space between them.
The second enclosure will protect the first one from the sun's rays and the space will allow the air to circulate. Make sure that it is open on two ends.
I wish we could add plants. We have goats so that puts a damper on some of that. We are going to plant trees at some point. We just have to come up with a way to keep the goats away while they grow, or find some that are tall enough that they cannot eat all the leaves off.That’s actually what I was thinking when I was reading another’s suggestion for shade cloth — doing a shade sail above the hoop house would probably help keep the temp down. (And raising your cover a bit to let some breeze through at the bottom.)
Im also a big fan of growing small trees/bushes in large pots to help create instant yet somewhat movable shade.
Wire cages so the goats can't reach the leaves,I wish we could add plants. We have goats so that puts a damper on some of that. We are going to plant trees at some point. We just have to come up with a way to keep the goats away while they grow, or find some that are tall enough that they cannot eat all the leaves off.
I found some big tree today that they would not be able to reach but I would still put a cage to keep them from leaning against the tree. They would use it as a scratchin' post.Wire cages so the goats can't reach the leaves,
They may also eat the bark. We just helped a friend cut down a completely dead tree that had died due to goats having access to it and removing bark. It was a decently large/older tree too. So, basically, a fence of some sort to protect any trees from the goat.I found some big tree today that they would not be able to reach but I would still put a cage to keep them from leaning against the tree. They would use it as a scratchin' post.