I put the sensor in the coop basically at roost height, I also have another one outside. Your humidity should be at the same level as outside or better.
For example if your outside humidity sensor is at 50% and the sensor in the coop is at 65% you need to allow for more ventilation of the coop...
By flakes I mean the larger ones. At tractor supply the white bag is pine "flakes" larger one and the yellow bag is fine pine chips. I think the pine flakes are also a good insulator. See my biggest worry about the hay or straw was that they would eat it and get an impacted crop. I guess it...
Everyone has there preferred bedding material for coops. I see you have hay or straw. I think the chickens surely prefer that over the large wood flakes but the biggest problem I had when I first started out with hay was trying to keep it clean. For example in order to clean the poop out of...
I like it. You should have some happy chickens with that set up.
With those manual opening vents in the top part that will give you some really nice control over what's going on inside. To me the best thing you could do is get something to monitor the humidity level inside the coop.
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