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[daxigait]

I usually have a fan in one of my buildings pushing air into the window but I can't find it.

I have a spare box fan I could put in the big window. They were open beaked with wings out earlier. Should I take it out? I am nervous about them and it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have a spare box fan I could put in the big window. They were open beaked with wings out earlier. Should I take it out? I am nervous about them and it.

I think if it is 85 or less in the building they'll be fine. Even higher if they're not heavy feathered breeds. You don't have any Chanteclers or Orloffs do you?

 

[daxigait]

Whoa and with a single comment I feel like the worst back harder ever-

my chickens don't have a fan(least the grown up,ones outside). Hope my chickens love me anyway.
(talk about feeling inadaquate)

I need more ventilation. I built it to keep drafts off the roosts in winter, and it is insulated, but that means even with the East and West Windows open no breeze goes to the roost. I need a Summer vent that I can close up later to get the winds from the SW.

 

[Pensmaster]

I usually have a fan in one of my buildings pushing air into the window but I can't find it.

Mine is bolted to the door. With thermostat. Next week is really concerning me with the heat here in California however Arizona is supposed to be much hotter. 120 in places.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Mine is bolted to the door. With thermostat. Next week is really concerning me with the heat here in California however Arizona is supposed to be much hotter. 120 in places.

That's a good idea. I had been watching some fans on E-bay that I could put in a gable vent. I have to get on that.
Most of my buildings have big ventilation though and it is usually the same temp inside and out. The brooder house felt really stuffy when I was out there though.

 

[daxigait]

I think if it is 85 or less in the building they'll be fine.  Even higher if they're not heavy feathered breeds. You don't have any Chanteclers or Orloffs do you?

No, I have RIR, B&W leghorns, isa browns, cl, EE, Welsummer, and two LO, in there right now, but they are a bit crowded at the moment. I processed the meaties last weekend, and now need to adjust my populations.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The only bird I've lost to heat was a Welsummer in 2012. Orps can suffer a bit too.

 

[daxigait]

I know if it is 84 outside that it is warmer than that in the coop.

 

[pipAchick]

Actually I feel like that scene in that movie with the banjo playing..

Newbiees in the room was there a large sign on the internet information highway on your way in that said "free chickens" on your way in here??
RUN hatchers run for your lives,,,ahhhhhh

Sorry I'm just kidding.(just seeing who's paying attention and who's sleep typing)

 

[daxigait]

I have a storm door as the human entrance. I need to figure out how to hardware cloth over the screen area so I can leave that open. Any suggestions?