Blackout Box for loud hens

[SCOUT123]

I transformed my coop (it's actually a really big dog cage lined with hardware cloth) into a blackout box, using Eclipse blackout curtains to block out the light. Are these blackout curtains breathable, though? Yesterday I left a crack for breathing but some light shone in and set them off. Would it be fine for me to cover the coop completely/are these curtains breathable?

 

[sourland]

I'd be concerned about doing this in the Ca. heat.

 

[rottlady]

a dog crate is not suitable for a coop outdoors

My own coop is not yet finished so my chickens are IN THE HOUSE LOL in 4x4x4 dog pens with perches. They go outside in a mobile but not predator proof tractor coop in daytime (after 8) and come back in for the night (before 8pm)

 

[rottlady]

and no totally covered like that you are increasing heat in the cage, reducing ventilation and collecting ammonia which can damage their respiratory system

 

[SCOUT123]

a dog crate is not suitable for a coop outdoors

My own coop is not yet finished so my chickens are IN THE HOUSE LOL in 4x4x4 dog pens with perches. They go outside in a mobile but not predator proof tractor coop in daytime (after 8) and come back in for the night (before 8pm)

it's as big as a car..

 

[SCOUT123]

I'd be concerned about doing this in the Ca. heat.

They go in to roost at 8:30 pm and i usually let them out at around 8am. idk if it's that hot but thanks for forewarning me

 

[rottlady]

then it is a dog kennel not a cage. a cage is a crate. My guys are in a 4x4x4 pen in the house at night and even so I'd never cover them tight like that although I dearly would love to to keep the roo from crowing at 5 am


Even so you cannot cover it like that not in a warm area

 

[SCOUT123]

Even so you cannot cover it like that not in a warm area

well at night the temperature drops down to the mid-fifties