I'm glad you found it helpful. In the winter we don't do anything at all to the coop. We don't seal or cover it. Windows stay open on the downwind side, vents stay open, pop door stays open..... the more ventilation in a coop the better the chickens do both in winter and in summer.
The run is covered with clear greenhouse plastic we picked up at Lowes. Even out there we've left ventilation open at the top on the south and north sides, as well as about 6 inches up on the west side at the bottom. Our coop is 6'x8'. It's 8 feet tall in the front and 6 feet tall at the back. The run is approximately 16x8. Both are too small for the number of chickens we currently have - 28 - but of those 28 eight are still "chicks". A few of the adults have tickets to freezer camp, I have a friend here who wants to take a couple and I'm bringing 4 others home to my brother when we go back to South Dakota for Thanksgiving. We overwintered 11 chickens last year and they did great. They all get plenty of forage time out in the yard, summer and winter, which helps, and we have tons of "boredom busters" for them in the run so we haven't had any bullying or feather picking or other bad habits chickens get into when they are crowded.
The run is covered with clear greenhouse plastic we picked up at Lowes. Even out there we've left ventilation open at the top on the south and north sides, as well as about 6 inches up on the west side at the bottom. Our coop is 6'x8'. It's 8 feet tall in the front and 6 feet tall at the back. The run is approximately 16x8. Both are too small for the number of chickens we currently have - 28 - but of those 28 eight are still "chicks". A few of the adults have tickets to freezer camp, I have a friend here who wants to take a couple and I'm bringing 4 others home to my brother when we go back to South Dakota for Thanksgiving. We overwintered 11 chickens last year and they did great. They all get plenty of forage time out in the yard, summer and winter, which helps, and we have tons of "boredom busters" for them in the run so we haven't had any bullying or feather picking or other bad habits chickens get into when they are crowded.