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  1. Sarvepalli

    What to do about the raccoons?

    Relocation doesn't work. I had a friend who used a Have-a-Heart trap to capture raccoons and relocate them many miles away in another wooded area. He bragged that he had relocated 10 coons so far. I told him that he had probably relocated the same coon 10 times. He laughed thinking I was...
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    I'm sitting in front of my desktop.

    I'm sitting in front of my desktop.
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    Ventilated but Free of Drafts

    The wall isn't completely sealed from the inside of the coop even though it's covered. The wall ends a few inches below the ceiling/roof leaving an air space around the top perimeter of the coop both inside and out. As air moves up through the wall, bottom to top, by convection it draws or...
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    Ventilated but Free of Drafts

    I built our coop as a passive solar building. The walls are sealed or covered both on the outside and inside with open air passages running inside the wall from the bottom up to the top of the wall. That means building the wall with no inside framing obstructions. It allows air to pass...
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    Ventilated but Free of Drafts

    I built our coop as a passive solar building. Ventilation is achieved by convection up through the walls while at the same time eliminating any drafts. It works well especially during hot months without need of fans etc.
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    What would you have done differently?

    Why wood walls instead of metal? Our coop has galvanized metal walls and floor and it works very well in terms of cleaning and keeping down mites and other insects. It has to be galvanized not the type of colored metal used for the outside of buildings. That type of metal is banned in...
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