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Since this thread is still active, here’s a view from the back corner outside the coop of the new ventilation window I added on the north side.

Yikes! My boys sleep in the coop (door shut/hardware cloth on all windows). The 2x4 welded wire & 1” chicken wire keeps them in the run by day and has kept predators out thus far. We don’t have any daytime predators other than hawks (this run is covered with 2” chicken wire and avian netting)...

Woohoo! It’s 2.68 sq ft of permanent ventilation (roof line, triangles, and new rectangles) and up to 3.64 sq ft if I open the window all the way. It’s all the way open (top down) now since I have 10 young birds in there for the next few weeks. Then it’ll be just the 3 (maybe 4) cockerels’ coop...

I added the new window(s) on that north side by the shed. Thank you for your advice! Now hopefully these 10 young pullets/cockerel(s) fit in here until they are old enough to go in the big coop/run with the adult hens. I moved the 3 crowing cockerels that will live in this coop later out to...

I live in southern Illinois. 100° in the summer isn’t unheard of and 0° in winter isn’t unheard of either. We get rain & snow in the winter and winds mostly blow from the west. Today there’s a wind advisory with gusts up to 45mph. They’ll be coming straight at the west wall of the coop. I’m...

I recently built a second coop for my bachelor roosters. I think I have four (maybe just 3) cockerels. They are 13-14 weeks old now and I’m not sure about one of the silkies. Anyway, I built a 6’ long x 4’ wide coop that is 3’ tall slanting up to 3.5’ tall on 18” legs. The north side nearly...