Cold Coop. Ventilation enough or excessive? Video Link also

[lightfoot]

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you may have to open those eave covers. the purpose of the vents are to draw out the moisture while keeping drafts off the chickens. the coop will always be close to the outside temperature. you may have to add additional vents lower on coop walls but higher than the chickens will ever get. maybe upper half of windows could be screened to aid ventilation.

 

[patandchickens]

You totally do NOT need lower-down openings, except maybe in a hot summer situation (and there, usually you're better off just having a whole wall or 2 be mesh).

Winter-type ventilation operates just fine through a single opening. Really really. Cold air goes in AND warm air goes out, through that one opening. And does it *gently*, which is what you want.

A low-down opening is a bad idea in 'real' winter temperatures because it makes the coop drafty (esp. at chicken level) without actually adding much in the way of humidity removal. Even just having a second opening higher-than-chickens-but-lower-than-existing-vents is suboptimal.

If the o.p. wanted to add more winter-worthy ventilation -- which IMO would not be a bad idea -- I would suggest putting it high on the triangular part of the short side of the coop at the end furthest from the roosts.

JMHO,

Pat

 

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