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Debbie292d said:
I agree you must have a humidity problem. I'd get a hygrometer and check it. It shouldn't be over 70%. Ours stays around 50-60% even when it's subzero outdoors and 80-90% humidity.
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How do you keep the humidity that low inside when is 90% outside? My roo got frostbite last year at about 18 degrees. I just installed my hygrometer tonight and it’s 74% humidity inside and 86% outside. I have a ridge vent, 2 solar fans and an additional roof vent.
 
dbounds10 said:
How do you keep the humidity that low inside when is 90% outside? My roo got frostbite last year at about 18 degrees. I just installed my hygrometer tonight and it’s 74% humidity inside and 86% outside. I have a ridge vent, 2 solar fans and an additional roof vent.
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We use horse bedding pellets on the floor and in the nest boxes, and have a 5-gallon nipple bucket for water, so no open water. The pellets absorb the moisture in the poop, so no odors.

A thin oil filled radiant heater (NewAir) keeps the coop to about 40F. They can come out if it's 20F or above and not windy.

There are no vents other than a digital fan that rarely runs and the intake vent in the human door that is between the coop and the garden shed.

8+ years with silkies.
 
LoveClockwise said:
Hey! I'm new on BYC, I've been following for a while though. I have 6 chicky girls and have been keeping chickens for roughly 2 1/2 years. I have a Buff Orpington, MMM, Amberlink, Easter Egger, Wyandotte and a Lavender Orpington.
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Hello!!! I'm relatively new on here too! Your girl looks a lot like my Dolly (White Plymouth Rock - pictured). Continue enjoying BYC! Lots of great information here 😊
 

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