I'm in the beginning stages of redoing my coop. I have a 30 x 30 barn that I am redoing into 6 10 x 10 coops with a 10 x 30 aisle down the center. I have taken down the North wall and had planned on replacing it with new siding. I was going to enclose the entire end, with a door in the middle and a large upper vent in the eaves for ventilation.
Today I was out there standing in the aisle thinking how nice it was with the breeze blowing through. It was over 80 degrees today. That got me to thinking, instead of enclosing the North wall, just hardware the whole wall and put up tarps/plastic during the winter to block the wind. In fact, I plan on pulling down all the walls and having it all hardware with plastic up where needed during the winter.
What are ya'lls thoughts, opinions or suggestions? Am I nuts for making an all wire coop? Either way, I plan on taking down the walls in my current coop and putting up hardware cloth.
This is how it looked this morning. Your looking at the North end, my coop is on the South end.
This is how it looked this afternoon after I took down the wall, stall boards and odd/end junk, lol
Thanks for any suggestions!
Today I was out there standing in the aisle thinking how nice it was with the breeze blowing through. It was over 80 degrees today. That got me to thinking, instead of enclosing the North wall, just hardware the whole wall and put up tarps/plastic during the winter to block the wind. In fact, I plan on pulling down all the walls and having it all hardware with plastic up where needed during the winter.
What are ya'lls thoughts, opinions or suggestions? Am I nuts for making an all wire coop? Either way, I plan on taking down the walls in my current coop and putting up hardware cloth.
This is how it looked this morning. Your looking at the North end, my coop is on the South end.
This is how it looked this afternoon after I took down the wall, stall boards and odd/end junk, lol
Thanks for any suggestions!
