NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

I noticed my girls panting tonight. I'm going to get some vents at Home Depot this weekend and install them on the coop. It would be hard to install a real window so I hope the vents help.

The windows in my coops are squares that I covered with hardware cloth. In the winter they are covered with plexiglass.

 

[armorfirelady]

Quote: Even though I have a hoop coop I did notice a difference once I put the 2 roof vents in. I also have 2 on the side towards the bottom as well. I figure any ventilation is good ventilation. While it is warm in the coop during the day it is def cooler in there than outside,

 

[rancher hicks]

I noticed my girls panting tonight. I'm going to get some vents at Home Depot this weekend and install them on the coop. It would be hard to install a real window so I hope the vents help.

Same here. 110 in the coop yesterday. Don't expect their brooded eggs to hatch. Same thing happened this spring. Got so hot they were all bad. Gotta check these. Too, the two SLW's are broody too.

 

[rancher hicks]

Mine are panting too ...I bungii corded a window fan on the back of the coop to draw air out ..
I am thinking of closing the coop tomorrow night & letting them roost in the run it is cooler out there

I had to put the 2 girls in the coop again tonight ..when I came home they were roosting on the back of the nesting boxes ..
They are really too wide to fit there comfortably ...so they were making noise ...

I put fans in two coops but with little affect in the hoop coop. I will move it close into the coop rather than the covered run.

 

[stonykill]

chickens don't sweat like people do. So they do 2 things. 1st they pant.... same theory as a dog. They pant to get rid of excess heat. The 2nd thing they do is lift their wings. Even my Sumatra's who are known to be VERY heat tollerant do these 2 things. This is natures way.

I have broody hens hatching nearly daily now. The heat has no affect on it for me. If anything they hatch a day early.

 

[ChickPrincess]

The windows in my coops are squares that I covered with hardware cloth. In the winter they are covered with plexiglass.

This is what I have done also. I made frames out of 1 x 3 pressure treated strips. Two frames for each window, one on the inside and one on the outside. Cut a hole in the metal siding, and sandwiched the siding and the hardware cloth between the frames. Screwed in tightly and there's nothing going to get in those windows. I'm making another one today, which will be 3 or 4 feet long and a foot tall for the end of the coop. On the other side of the coop I have a small 12" x 12" window up high with a shelf. A fan sits up on the shelf pointing out and runs 24/7. This will give it a good cross breeze and hopefully keep things drier (that's my main concern).
I will be making plexiglass covers, but will use them as flaps to help keep out rain. So I can have them all the way open, partially open or closed.

Then my next step is to add an enclosed broody area and re-do all the roosts with plywood under them so I can scoop out poop from sand/DE on the plywood.

Ah, all these projects.

 

[ke5hde]

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This is what I have done also. I made frames out of 1 x 3 pressure treated strips. Two frames for each window, one on the inside and one on the outside. Cut a hole in the metal siding, and sandwiched the siding and the hardware cloth between the frames. Screwed in tightly and there's nothing going to get in those windows. I'm making another one today, which will be 3 or 4 feet long and a foot tall for the end of the coop. On the other side of the coop I have a small 12" x 12" window up high with a shelf. A fan sits up on the shelf pointing out and runs 24/7. This will give it a good cross breeze and hopefully keep things drier (that's my main concern).
I will be making plexiglass covers, but will use them as flaps to help keep out rain. So I can have them all the way open, partially open or closed.

Then my next step is to add an enclosed broody area and re-do all the roosts with plywood under them so I can scoop out poop from sand/DE on the plywood.

Ah, all these projects.

We actually got lucky and someone gave us a 4 bay Anderson window. It didn't come with screens so I added my own to the inside of it. In 1 bay we have a 20" box fan exhausting air and leave all 4 bays open. Our big coop is a 2 story shed, so I leave the upper windows open to pull air in and to let the upper heat out.

Chris

 

[AQHAchick22]

So I put an ad on Craigslist to try to get rid of 5 of my 3 month old roosters. I had a guy respond today saying he would give me $10 for all 5 of them because he wanted to get them for his nephews...ugh I think I should take the ad down, I'm so paranoid of people being interested in them for fighting. I really don't care if they want to buy them all so they can have them processed but really? I think I just need to "man up" and cull them myself.

 

[ke5hde]

So I put an ad on Craigslist to try to get rid of 5 of my 3 month old roosters. I had a guy respond today saying he would give me $10 for all 5 of them because he wanted to get them for his nephews...ugh I think I should take the ad down, I'm so paranoid of people being interested in them for fighting. I really don't care if they want to buy them all so they can have them processed but really? I think I just need to "man up" and cull them myself.

I did the same thing with some 2 day old packing peanuts a week ago. Put them on for free. 1st guy didn't show. 2nd one wanted me to deliver them 30 miles away We did finally have someone take them and they even gave me $5. I had no need or use for 6 black sex link roo's.

Chris

 

[AQHAchick22]

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Thats my problem, I don't need nor want them...I'm just hesitant to sell them to somebody who wants to "Give them to his nephews"