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  1. nminusyplusm

    Materials for human screen porch?

    My chickens don’t have access to it but if they did they would’t be able to do anything to it. You need quality sharp scissors or shop shears to cut the stuff. While trimming edges with a utility knife a few times I slipped and thought I might have sliced it but it did nothing to the screen. It...
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    Materials for human screen porch?

    Like this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Phifer-48-in-x-84-in-Black-Pet-Screen-3004153/100565927 I got a different brand from a screen shop for less but I can’t seem to find the info right now. I’m sure it’s comparable.
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    Materials for human screen porch?

    If you want to keep your sight lines open at the bottom, use pet screen. I have a screened porch/catio with vinyl coated polyester pet screen and it's done a great job keeping my cat in and ferals out even when said cats climb it or fight with the screen between them.
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    Plywood floor in raised bed coop

    I'm in southern NM and I do DL in my raised coop. It does work if you add water occasionally. I second @blackdog043's recommendation of Black Jack 57. The floor of my coop is in perfect condition despite its contact with composting litter.
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    Thanks for the follow! And the cat in your profile pic is adorable!

    Thanks for the follow! And the cat in your profile pic is adorable!
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    Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

    I just don't understand the motivation behind it at all. It's so strange.
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    ATTENTION ALL MEALWORM FEEDERS

    I'm with you. I can't help but compare the amortized costs of buying something I need on sale usually with a coupon/code stacked on top of that for a deep discount in bulk vs paying way more for the same thing one at a time. Plus I save my future shopping time and gas.
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    Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

    I love your coop and your garden! And those pineapple cutouts are so cool!
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    Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

    This might clear things up (it's the original source of the interior pic): http://spiveyfamilyjournal.blogspot.com/2010/10/chicken-coop-progress-new-nest-boxes.html and plenty of exterior photos during the build and after completion: https://spiveyfamilyjournal.blogspot.com/search/label/Chickens
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    Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

    Here's my coop (notice how the interior and exterior photos are of the same structure? I'm especially proud of that, hehe):
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    Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

    That company doesn't sell plans, just coops. I have no idea why someone would join this thread and post pics taken off the internet and weren't their own but that's what it looks like to me.
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    Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

    I agree with @aart, those photos don't match at all. The exterior photo is of a smaller coop and there's no way that interior bank of nest boxes would fit in the coop shown in the ext pic nor does it match the small ext nest boxes. Also it appears that both photos were grabbed off the internet...
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    Sand or Hay for bedding small wooden coop?

    For me, if high winds can hit them so can horizontal rain and I have lost a bird that way when a single top hinged window on my coop wasn't shut during an unexpected storm. This is how far the window was open but it was enough to soak them: There have been worse storms since but keeping the...
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    Sand or Hay for bedding small wooden coop?

    The straw is getting wet because there's too much humidity in the entire coop with not enough ventilation at the top for it to escape.
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    Sand or Hay for bedding small wooden coop?

    It says right there in your attachment that warm air which holds more moisture rises. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/08/05/why-dry-air-is-heavier-than-humid-air/
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    Sand or Hay for bedding small wooden coop?

    Actually it's the opposite, humid air weighs less: https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/is-humid-air-heavier-than-dry-air.htm
  17. nminusyplusm

    Sand or Hay for bedding small wooden coop?

    You definitely need more ventilation above their roost. -10 °C is not that cold to a chicken. Your weather sounds like mine and my coop has roughly a square meter of ventilation above their heads year round. As long as they're not sleeping in a draft, the more fresh air the better.
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    Sand or Hay for bedding small wooden coop?

    What temperatures do you get in winter? Chickens are very cold tolerant. Is your ventilation covered with plastic right now or is it open?
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    Sand or Hay for bedding small wooden coop?

    Where are you located and what kind of weather do you get? And how many chickens do you have? I think it's a humidity problem and not a bedding problem. How much ventilation does your coop have?
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    Sand or Hay for bedding small wooden coop?

    Welcome to BYC! I agree with @RumneyRoost about ventilation. Here's a good thread on it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ventilated-but-free-of-drafts.1048597/
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