I need your coop pictures! Writing a BYC article

[BigBlueHen53]

Update to add that I need a few more pictures. I decided to add a piece on the end of the article for fixing/repurposing your mistakes.
Anyone have pictures of external nesting boxes converted to storage? Or Prefab's being used a brooder instead of a coop? I'll add this to the beginning of the article as well.

Okay, this is what we've done to help temporarily fix the ventilation problem in our coop. This modified pallet is opposite the window, which we can close in wet weather. It also allows us to increase the capacity of our 8x10 coop. Unfortunately, one of the roosting slats has come off and another is loose. (Neither of us is a builder. Finding one is proving challenging!) What we really need to do is close off the lower half of the window and open up another on this side, higher up. The three little holes you see in the gable end and three matching ones facing them constitute the only other openings in the building besides that large window and the open door.

 

[Weeg]

Here is the worst mistake I made in my coop. Works great in summer.

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Adding to the ventilation section for sure. Thank you!

 

[Weeg]

Okay, this is what we've done to help temporarily fix the ventilation problem in our coop. This modified pallet is opposite the window, which we can close in wet weather. It also allows us to increase the capacity of our 8x10 coop. Unfortunately, one of the roosting slats has come off and another is loose. (Neither of us is a builder. Finding one is proving challenging!) What we really need to do is close off the lower half of the window and open up another on this side, higher up. The three little holes you see in the gable end and three matching ones facing them constitute the only other openings in the building besides that large window and the open door.

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I can probably add this for fixing ventilation issues as well. Thank you!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I can probably add this for fixing ventilation issues as well. Thank you!

The pallet doesn't fix the ventilation issues.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Oops sorry, hit Post too soon. We still have ventilation issues in there, they just don't get rained on if we shut the window.

 

[Weeg]

The pallet doesn't fix the ventilation issues.

No, but it does show correct ventilation which can be beneficial to that paragraph.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

No, but it does show correct ventilation which can be beneficial to that paragraph.

It does?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

No, but it does show correct ventilation which can be beneficial to that paragraph.

The lighting in that picture (showing the pallet) makes it look like there is poop piled up a couple feet high in that back corner against the wall, and there isn't! It's a shadow or reflection of the flash on the shredded paper. The paper is level across the floor, lol.

 

[Weeg]

Anyone else have pictures? I'm going to try to publish it today, wether or not there aren't a ton of photos. Thanks to everyone who has posted so far!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Anyone else have pictures? I'm going to try to publish it today, wether or not there aren't a ton of photos. Thanks to everyone who has posted so far!

Looking forward to it!