Insulating against Heat?

[bigstack]

I am surrounded by Pilgrims Pride and Tyson chicken houses here in N.E. Texas. 1000's of them. The Only cooling they use is low Ground level vents (intake) and forced air fans for exhausting the higher heated air out the eves (or attic) area. It gets 110+ here in the summers. wall insulation to keep heat out in summer and heat in in winter. aswell as roof painted/galvanized silver to reflect the heat. Some do use misters but that is a lil much for home use. lol My supervisors family has 12 houses. producing over $1 mill a year gross. They are one of the highest rated farms for pilgrims. I will follow his advice.
Good luck with what ever you decide to do. air circulation is the key. a closed coop is an oven in the sun. sides of a shade type mesh are good if you have a constant breeze. But here the humidity is so high (100% at times with out it raining) in the summer 80-90% it is actually hard to breath at times until you get used to it. thats why the forced air ventilation.

 

[patandchickens]

It might be useful, in your particular case, to insulate the W wall and the S/W-facing portion of the roof.

However you would get even more bang for your buck by just removing one or more sides from the shed and replacing with mesh

You could make them re-attach-able (is that a word?) for the colder months if need be. But that way you would limit the coop temp to ambient temp, which it sounds like would be an improvement on its current state and would be QUITE DIFFICULT to achieve with just insulation.

GOod luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[Chieftain]

This has been my experiment in insulating the coop, and frankly we have more hot days than freezing ones so we will find out about the effectiveness of my theories very soon.

I used 1/2 CDX plywood for outside sheathing, 1 1/2" thick styrofoam block insulation in the middle, and 3/8" CDX plywood on the inside walls.

Construction continues...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=283812

 

[norcal]

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That's a good & plausible idea.

 

[Tala]

I present my solution to 100 degree weather: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=27985-open-air-design-coop

Ideally it will be about the same temp inside as anywhere else that is shady, and by the time they go to roost the sun won't be shining on the tin wall any longer.

 

[gsim]

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Pat makes good sense here and I second it. A panel can be made to put up in wintertime. In your place, I would first open all 4 walls up via ventilation at the tops of those walls and add roof ventilation too. A good-sized cupola or turbine vent would to. Also, put a good fan to exhaust that heat directly under the cupola or turbine-vent and leave it on a medium speed, day and night or at least a timer to run it maybe 16 hrs a day. I have 6 sq ft of permanent non-closeable ventilation in my coop and it gets colder here than there and it is not as hot here as there either. I also have a 42" ceiling fan overhead under the turbine vent for hot days, as well as 4 good-sized windows to open in summertime.