HELP! snow blowing in the COOP

[rosemarythyme]

yes. staple chicken wire or hardware cloth on top of plastic to hold it in the wind. If you want to close space between rafters, sticking empty feed bags work good for that

x2 on feed bags as a temporary baffle.

 

[BobbieB7]

so I am in MA and we are in the middle of a blizzard. My chickens chose to stay inside the coop today but we are having wind gusts of up to 50mph and the snow is blowing in the coop from my peak vents. I have an overhang above it but it isn't stopping it from blowing in. It is covering their roost and even blowing on the floor...... (going to try to find a pic of what my coop looks like so you can see where it is blowing in). I have other vents should I put up plastic over the one above their roost? I don't want to block off any ventilation but I also don't want their roost covered in snow......

Funny I posted the same question. I’m in Rhode Island. That Blizzard was intense! I think the high winds in all directions revealed a few more things that needs to be added to keep vents open but have more protection. If you look under me there’s some great advice. I m going to do the awnings that a member did on their coop
Let’s hope we are done with Blizzards and extreme wind this year

 

[BobbieB7]

x2 on feed bags as a temporary baffle.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

When this happened to me, I just screwed down some cardboard over one of the vent.

 

[junior67]

Funny I posted the same question. I’m in Rhode Island. That Blizzard was intense! I think the high winds in all directions revealed a few more things that needs to be added to keep vents open but have more protection. If you look under me there’s some great advice. I m going to do the awnings that a member did on their coop
Let’s hope we are done with Blizzards and extreme wind this year

It was definitely intense! I have an overhang over the peak vent that the snow was blowing in. I think we are just going to put a board across that to block it from being able to blow straight in. It would have to blow up and under it to blow in. I just put plastic over it for now and that worked and the humidity seems about the same that it was before so that is good.

 

[junior67]

When this happened to me, I just screwed down some cardboard over one of the vent.

I stapled plastic inside and it worked so that was good at least. And humidity seems around what it was before. Just glad it stopped snowing on them that day.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

I stapled plastic inside and it worked so that was good at least. And humidity seems around what it was before. Just glad it stopped snowing on them that day.

I used cardboard because it blocked out the snow but wasn't totally air tight.