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    Pre-fab Coop Ventilation 🥵 my chickens are hot!!

    Oh my goodness yes it has been crazy hot. And less rain than usual isn’t helping. I love how you have a canopy over the coop. That makes perfect sense and seems like such an easy fix. We were thinking of adding a canopy to the run, but placing it over the coop for cooler temp makes perfect...
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    Roo or Pullet? 🐓

    Oh yay! This is great news 🤞
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    Roo or Pullet? 🐓

    Hi there! I have 5 Buff Orpingtons, all 16 weeks old. One of them has been developing more quickly than the rest so I’m having a difficult time figuring out if it’s a boy or girl. You can see the bright red comb compared to the rest. Depending on the temperature outside, it seems to get lighter...
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    Chicken dust bath

    Where I live our soil is a dry and sandy texture. My birds enjoy making dust baths right in that.
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    Pre-fab Coop Ventilation 🥵 my chickens are hot!!

    One more question… if I start opening up walls as suggested, how would I go about keeping the rain out? Thanks again!
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    Pre-fab Coop Ventilation 🥵 my chickens are hot!!

    Thank you for the great replies! Wow I guess we need more vents than I thought! The chickens are just over 3 months old. I’m a bit hesitant to start cutting into the wood siding on walls because it is a very thin & flimsy wood. Wishing we had made the coop from scratch to begin with 🫤 but this...
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    Pre-fab Coop Ventilation 🥵 my chickens are hot!!

    I have a pre-fab coop for my 5 Buff Orpington hens. We are in south Florida where the summers are pretty brutal. The summer has just started here and already I’m noticing the coop is so warm… warmer than the outside temp. The girls pant a lot. I have large pine shavings inside for litter that is...
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