Best Substance for Sealing Inside Coop Crevices and Joints?

[tlatham72]

Ok. Since I'm new to the chicken community, what the heck is chicken math???

 

[tribalacres]

Ok. Since I'm new to the chicken community, what the heck is chicken math???

From Meyer's Hatchery. LOL

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Bless your heart, I wouldn't bother to seal cracks. If you have an open vent anything will likely crawl in there since coop should be vented anyway. I think equally chickens bring insects in as much as travel in not to mention if you leave a door open. As long as predators are prevented.
If they are layers ask yourself which would you prefer to eat, foam or caulk? If they eat it and you eat the eggs........

 

[drinkoj]

Howdy! Where are you specifically? I'm in Travelers Rest.
Love your signature.

I have 2 Vizsla/Lab mixes, 2 Nigerian Dwarf goats, 1 bossy kitty cat, 7 baby chicks, and 1 husband that wants 2-3 more goats and a couple of ducks.

Live in Anderson and work in Greenville.

 

[tlatham72]

Live in Anderson and work in Greenville.

Awesome. My mom lives in Anderson. I grew up in Iva. I lived in Greenville for many years, but move out to TR in May last year so that my husband and I could create our own personal petting zoo. Just kidding. We did move to have some land for a garden, goats, chickens, and our dogs to run and play.

 

[drinkoj]

Ok. Since I'm new to the chicken community, what the heck is chicken math???

You start off with 6 Leghorn chicks, then maybe 2 die. Well you have to have 6 chicks so you go to Tractor supply and you get 2 of the same breed that died but they have these new ISO Brown chicks you just HAVE TO GET and end up with 2 more; you're at 8 chicks now. Several weeks pass and you decide that the coop and run can handle a few more chicks and you buy 4 more much younger chicks. Now you're at 12 chicks and you built a coop to hold 8 because you heard of this thing called "Chicken Math" and KNEW your lovely wife would succumb to it. But in hindsight your own "Chicken Math" and her "Chicken Math" weren't the same.

Understand? You'll have more chickens than you plan on.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Good to know that you chickens haven't pecked at the caulk. And I'm so very literal I never, ever get jokes. Eggshell went right over my head until another posted pointed out the pun. Ha!

I am super frugal where possible. I hit up the mis tint shelf at Home Depot a bit to often.....looking for good colors that others didn't want. I pay $9 a gallon that way instead of $30. Eggshell finish is the most common.

My duck house got the same super pale green the inside of my human house has.
I got a 5 gallon bucket for $36. Totally worth checking the mis tints.

The duck deck.....I lucked out and got light gray porch and floor paint in the mis tint area.

 

[tlatham72]

I am super frugal where possible. I hit up the mis tint shelf at Home Depot a bit to often.....looking for good colors that others didn't want. I pay $9 a gallon that way instead of $30. Eggshell finish is the most common.

My duck house got the same super pale green the inside of my human house has.
I got a 5 gallon bucket for $36. Totally worth checking the mis tints.
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The duck deck.....I lucked out and got light gray porch and floor paint in the mis tint area.
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I love the mistints section! I browse it and buy stuff just to keep on hand in my craft room for some future project that I have not dreamed up yet. I LOVE you duck deck! My husband wants to get a couple of ducks after we get the chickens squared away.

 

[tlatham72]

You start off with 6 Leghorn chicks, then maybe 2 die. Well you have to have 6 chicks so you go to Tractor supply and you get 2 of the same breed that died but they have these new ISO Brown chicks you just HAVE TO GET and end up with 2 more; you're at 8 chicks now. Several weeks pass and you decide that the coop and run can handle a few more chicks and you buy 4 more much younger chicks. Now you're at 12 chicks and you built a coop to hold 8 because you heard of this thing called "Chicken Math" and KNEW your lovely wife would succumb to it. But in hindsight your own "Chicken Math" and her "Chicken Math" weren't the same.

Understand? You'll have more chickens than you plan on.

Aaahhhh! I've already succumbed to chicken math and my chicks haven't even made it out of the brooder yet!