advantages of a window with glass

[aart]

Lol @aart a “chicken foyer” that’s great!

I know, right?!
It's quite amusing as well as incredibly functional,
two of my favorite things!
Win-Win!

 

[rosemarythyme]

I guess I'm a window junkie. 5 total (3 visible here, 2 on the other long wall). These are standard household sliders and we leave them almost year round (I'll close the ones next to the roost if we have extended periods of freeze). I had the shed builder go as big as possible on all the windows. We only didn't put one on the south wall as that's where our winds come from.

I guess the chickens approve since they all tend to sleep near one window or the other.

 

[BDutch]

I guess I'm a window junkie. 5 total (3 visible here, 2 on the other long wall). These are standard household sliders and we leave them almost year round (I'll close the ones next to the roost if we have extended periods of freeze). I had the shed builder go as big as possible on all the windows. We only didn't put one on the south wall as that's where our winds come from.

I guess the chickens approve since they all tend to sleep near one window or the other.

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Great windows. Suppose you can leave them open (with hwc) allmost all year?
Nice colour too.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Mine has 1/4" thick smoked lexan....


This coop has 11 windows. While they look very dark they do let in a good amount of light.
I leave all 11 open all summer.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Great windows. Suppose you can leave them open (with hwc) allmost all year?

Yup they stay open almost all year round, I closed 2 of them for about 2-3 weeks during a big snow storm last year but haven't touched them since.

 

[aart]

Mine has 1/4" thick smoked lexan....

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This coop has 11 windows. While they look very dark they do let in a good amount of light.
I leave all 11 open all summer.

Why smoked?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Why smoked?

Good question!

We had it on hand from hubs job. It was scratched so he got 2 4x8 sheets for $40.

Basically it was salvaged material he never used so I claimed it.

 

[aart]

Good question!

We had it on hand from hubs job. It was scratched so he got 2 4x8 sheets for $40.

Basically it was salvaged material he never used so I claimed it.

I figured it must have been a freebie, y'all don't get that much sun up there

 

[21hens-incharge]

I figured it must have been a freebie, y'all don't get that much sun up there

Definitely not needed but cheap worked pretty good.
The roof came the same way. He had to buy the lot so I used what I needed and sold the rest.....that made the roof free.