yes.Oh, so she has both Woods and hoops, and the hoops function with an air cushion.
exactly
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yes.Oh, so she has both Woods and hoops, and the hoops function with an air cushion.
Good luck to you. I can’t provide much, but you can look up Woods coop on BYC, but maybe you are already familiar with it and why/how it works. How many chickens do you have, or plan to have?
Parasites can come in from wild birds... VERY hard to keep them completely out.Due to this year's bad run-in with parasites, I don't want to go over 10 chickens top, in case bad luck strikes again and I have to euthanize some of them
No... a Woods coop is a specific coop design. The idea is that in the winter all ventilation is from the big wire front.
the high up little widows are only open in a hot summer.
like this:
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or
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So a Woods coop is not a tiny wooden coop...
I've seen a few wood coops for 2-3 chickens, but while those are great, most of them don't seem insulated much with their small size. I'm also not sure if small coops are good protectors in very cold temperatures.... to be honest they leave me uneasy. Cleaning them is heaven though, since their small size make for easy litter replacements. The rollout drawers are a deluxe feature I wish I could integrate into bigger coops. I am highly tempted to build a new chicken coop that would better fit all of my needs, but as I said I have little construction experience and I'm not sure where to place it plus its run in my backyard for easy access in winter, since the cabanon is in the ideal spot already.
I plan to have at least 5-6 hens to get all base colors of the rainbow eggs, plus a rooster for pure and mutt chicks in spring. The current coop that I have, if pushed to max capacity, could hold around 12 chickens in total at ground floor, plus four additional ones if I unfold the heated coop above. (I've put six chickens in there the previous winter since they were middle-weights, but one of the leghorn hens started eating more feathers than grains so that's how I realized I'd overcrowded the place). The landlady also used to have a poney in her backyard, and its 6 ft long x 3 ft large stall is glued to the cabanon coop, so I can use that stall for a brooding hen and her chicks in spring to give the rest of my coop a space break. Otherwise in winter the stall is closed off; it's inside the chicken run and unaccessible unless I sneak around two sets of fences with my snow plower to it. Getting there is a hassling business.
Here, this is how my chicken coop is made and placed, for upper visual reference:
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Due to this year's bad run-in with parasites, I don't want to go over 10 chickens top, in case bad luck strikes again and I have to euthanize some of them. I'm too soft-hearted to kill anything, so dog and cat vets are the next best thing when it comes to humanely ending the suffering of my chickens. So yeah, no more than 10 chickens, and a prayer to god that the future specimens I get are of good quality and excellent health xP
No; they have cushion combs just like the white variety. They're quite cold hardy. I can send you a copy of the Chantecler SOP if you wish?(for beige eggs - I'm asking about the two Chanteclers because their SOP is very hard to find, so unless I'm mistaken, they have pea combs instead of cushion combs; could the different comb impact their resistance to cold weather?)
No... a Woods coop is a specific coop design. The idea is that in the winter all ventilation is from the big wire front.
the high up little widows are only open in a hot summer.
like this:
View attachment 1327296
or
View attachment 1327298
So a Woods coop is not a tiny wooden coop...