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Thank you everyone for the input!

I definitely wish I would have opened up the whole length from the get go. Things to remember for next time right. These are my first chickens so any New additions in the future will definitely have smaller combed breeds. The last several nights I has dropped to the 20s. No frost on the...

No it is just open in this one section. I could open the whole length. It would be about 6’. There is almost a half inch gape between the metal roof and the ridge cap due to the rivets in the metal. We typically don’t get a lot of snow. About Every 5 years or so we will get buried under a foot...

The windows I might put a latch on so that I can get a tight seal. I need to get weather stripping for them first and also caulk the trim if it ever gets above 40 without rain. The run is not done yet. I’m probably going to cover it with the same metal roofing as the coop. I need to make it...

I trying not to do a gable vent be I already put shingles on the those to sides. Needless to say the peaks were the biggest challenge of them. I could open it up more under the ridge cap of the roof.

The damper is what I was thinking too. I also might use cardboard as makeshift insulation throughout the coop this winter too. Take it down in spring. It definitely could be bite marks. She is midway down the pecking order. Yes they are cedar shingles.

Yes I have a humility meter inside the coop that I can move in and out. It’s about the same. Sitting around the 80s. It has been very rainy the last few days so it’s normally in the 60-70% range outside. With the door closed it’s typically pretty still in there unless the wind is blowing...

It is closed now until I can put a cover on it. I am planning on a cover similar to a dryer vent. Open only on the bottom with the top and sides covered

Here are pictures as well. The large vent above the nest boxes is just above the lower tier of the roof The large vent from inside The small window. Roost are to the right and about level with the bottom of the window Big window Vent under the roost. Outside first the inside The...

Hello! So I am going into my first winter with chickens. We have had our first cold spell and good snow here in Kansas City, MO and I have some ventilation concerns and am in need of advice. So first let me say that this coop is the first thing I have ever built besides a flower box in high...

I have been. I noticed last night when I was putting them up for the night. Today she is still acting normal and running to me as soon as she sees me hoping to get scratch. Her comb today is looking much better. Just a little purple on the very tip. Little bigger than the ball point of a pen. I...

And yes there is poo on her back. That had just happened from one of the other girls on the roost

Forgot to add the pictures

My buff Orpingtons comb has some purple tips and is quite floppy. We have a Rhode Island Red who’s comb is a bit floppy too. They both seem healthy. It has also been on the nicer side here with some rain that has cooled things off a bit. So far I have read the a floppy comb is just a...

Thank you guys. I know she is close. We have 8 hens. 2 are laying daily 2 are every couple of days. The 3 more are close. One is a polish so who knows lol.

Not to highjack your thread but but I have the same question about one of mine. She (hopefully) is a silver laced Wyandotte. Really noticed the curved tail feathers today. Had not started laying or crowing but is about that age at 5 1/5 months

My hens finally started laying last Sunday! So I thought it was time to rebuild the nest boxes although the seem to like nesting under them. Earlier this week I took the old ones out and disassembled them. I decided the build them in place. Both the top and bottom are community boxes with only...

That’s what I was thinking too. Thanks guys

So around here we have Feldman’s country store that carry a feed brand called country feed by nutrena. One type that they have is called egg producer that is 3.45 calcium and 21% protein. I know a lot of you guys use an 18% protein feed. Nd provide oyster shells to have higher than 16%. I like...

She has not started yet. They just hit 4 months but it shouldn’t be much longer