Coop FAIL!!

[mowin]

For now you can put up furnace filters over the ventilation.
But like others have said, it appears you have a large open ridge vent that was most likely how the snow got inside the coop so easily.

 

[3KillerBs]

If you have scraps of extra metal building you can make awnings like the ones on my brooder.

They're redneck, but they work.

 

[Sally PB]

They're redneck, but they work.

The chickens don't care.

 

[McChooky]

That's an idea too. Though I don't have any of that and don't think I can get to town with the roads covered in snow drifts right now. I was wondering if feed bags would let enough air through though to do a similar temporary fix...

Put the feed bags over the inside should work .The direction the winds traveling is causing the drift so maybe you can put up a barrier to block the wind a couple feet away? Privacy panel?

 

[Windrider]

Curious why roof wasn't completed at the ridge-line.
Looks like a tarp was thrown over the gap?

Borrowed this pic off the OP's coop build thread, which I remembered seeing when it was under construction. It shows that what looks like the ceiling in the snow picture is just a baffle to keep the wind off the roosts. The snow came in the vents and collected on the baffles and the netting that is there to keep the chickens off.

I agree that some sort of temporary awning is needed for this winter, and maybe in the spring a more permanent eave extension could be made.

 

[mowin]

Borrowed this pic off the OP's coop build thread, which I remembered seeing when it was under construction. It shows that what looks like the ceiling in the snow picture is just a baffle to keep the wind off the roosts. The snow came in the vents and collected on the baffles and the netting that is there to keep the chickens off.

I agree that some sort of temporary awning is needed for this winter, and maybe in the spring a more permanent eave extension could be made.

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That looks nothing like her first pic she posted.

 

[McChooky]

The chickens don't care.

You're right, they don't!

 

[Windrider]

That looks nothing like her first pic she posted.

Uh? How does it not? In the first pic on this thread, it shows exactly the same POV, only from inside the coop, rather than from the storage area just outside of it. Imagine that you are standing just inside the screened door in my pic.

 

[mowin]

Uh? How does it not? In the first pic on this thread, it shows exactly the same POV, only from inside the coop, rather than from the storage area just outside of it. Imagine that you are standing just inside the screened door in my pic.

Because it doesn't... At least to me. But I'm old and need better glasses.

 

[McChooky]

Borrowed this pic off the OP's coop build thread, which I remembered seeing when it was under construction. It shows that what looks like the ceiling in the snow picture is just a baffle to keep the wind off the roosts. The snow came in the vents and collected on the baffles and the netting that is there to keep the chickens off.

I agree that some sort of temporary awning is needed for this winter, and maybe in the spring a more permanent eave extension could be made.

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Does it need vents on 2 sides when a 3rd side is wide open? This appears to be a building or shipping container with a chicken coop boxed in on one end.